Rural health-care support workers reject contract offer, approve strike mandate
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Health-care aides and home-care workers in the Interlake-Eastern and Prairie Mountain health regions have rejected their contract offer and approved a strike mandate.
About 6,500 employees represented by the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union “overwhelmingly” voted against a tentative agreement. Employees have been without a contract since April.
MGEU President Kyle Ross called the offer “unfair” in a press release announcing the strike mandate.
No official strike date has been set yet.
Union members who rejected the latest offer include health-care aides, home-care attendants, dietitians, occupational therapists and speech language pathologists.