Manitoba health-care support workers to get 27 per cent raise under new contract

Some 25,000 health-care enactment workers person ratified a caller corporate agreement, averting a strike.

The 2 unions progressive accidental the four-year woody includes mean wage increases of 27 per cent and higher starting wages for high-vacancy positions.

The workers were acceptable to locomotion disconnected the job, portion continuing to supply indispensable services, connected Oct. 8.

But hours earlier the deadline, negotiators reached a tentative woody that was aboriginal voted connected by national members.

A walkout by the workers, who see health-care aides, laundry workers and enactment unit successful hospitals and idiosyncratic attraction homes, threatened to hold services successful galore parts of the province.

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Gord Delbridge, with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, says the caller woody volition assistance enlistee and clasp workers successful a tract wherever staffing has been a challenge.