Living Wage Campaign: Sign the Petition

By signing this petition, I agree that B.C.'s health care cleaning and food service workers deserve living wages and safe working conditions. 9872 people have signed the petition. Join them now.

I am concerned that the rapid deterioration of wages and working conditions in health care support services — caused by contracting out — hurts workers, families, communities, patients and the health care system as a whole, with consequences that include:

• Family disruption as parents are forced to take two or more jobs to meet basic needs;
• Personal hardships such as poor living conditions, inadequate nutrition and emotional stress;
• Recruitment and retention problems that lead to short staffing and insufficient training;
• Compromised patient and worker safety;
• Fragmented health care teams that prevent nursing staff from communicating directly with support staff;
• Reductions in local economic and community activity, as workers' buying power is diminished and their free time is eroded; and
• The exploitation of new immigrants and other vulnerable populations who make up the majority of contracted-out workers in this sector.

For these reasons, I request that health authorities fulfill their mandate to promote strong and healthy communities by ensuring that their cleaning and food service workers have access to living wages and safe working conditions.

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