MEDIA ADVISORY: Workers & Families Can’t Wait: Home and community health care workers to deliver petition PC MPP Todd Smith urging PC government to offer a fair wage proposal

Event Information

Begins: 22 May 2024
Location: Belleville, ON

Home care workers say that it’s time for the Ford Government and the Treasury Board to come back to the table with a real offer! 

BELLEVILLE, ON –(COMMUNITYWIRE)– On Wednesday a delegation of home and community health care workers will deliver a petition signed by a strong majority of the local’s members to PC MPP Todd Smith, demanding that the Ontario government and the Treasury Board come back to the table to negotiate a fair wage increase on Friday. 

CUPE members working in Home and Community Support Services (HCCSS) have not yet settled their wage reopener negotiations after Bill 124 was overturned. The bill capped salary increases for broader public sector workers at one per cent a year, for three years.  

Members of CUPE Local 4788 South East working in home and community care say they’re struggling to make ends meet with the cost-of-living crisis. HCCSS workers include nurses, personal support workers, occupational and physiotherapists, IT and administrative support, and other health care workers who are committed to providing the care that Ontarians need.  

Wednesday’s action is one of several actions held across the province by CUPE members working in home and community care as part of the CUPE HCCSS Workers and Families Can’t Wait campaign.  

WHAT:
Health care workers to deliver petition signatures to PC MPP, Todd Smith    

WHO:
Home and community health care workers 

WHERE:
MPP Todd Smith, 5503 ON-62, Belleville, ON K8N 4Z7 

WHEN:
Wednesday May 22 at 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

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For media inquiries, contact:

Shannon Carranco, CUPE Communications Representative
scarranco@cupe.ca
514-703-8358