The President of the CUPE’s Council of Group Home Unions says increases wages for their workers are not a priority for government.
Romana Sehic says they don’t want to recognize them as an essential part of health care in the province.
She says this field desperately needs attention and she hopes something is going to come up.
In a news release, CUPE says the province set what it calls a fair hourly wage of $14.80 an hour for direct caregivers in adult group homes and eligible employees received their first pay equity adjustment in August.
Sehic says they will recieve a lump sum payment every year but no increase in their hourly wage.
