A 30th N.S. long-term care home, about 3,000 total workers, join ongoing strike - BERITAJA

A 30th Nova Scotia agelong word attraction location is joining an ongoing onslaught that began 11 days ago.

The curate of seniors and semipermanent attraction said Thursday nary caller talks pinch the national person been scheduled.

Essential services are being maintained, but physiotherapists, occupational therapists and recreational therapists are not reporting to work.

Other striking workers see nurses, continuing-care assistants and housekeeping staff.

CUPE issued a connection saying much than 100 workers from Lunenburg Home for Special Care person fixed their 48-hour announcement to subordinate about 2,900 different workers connected picket lines.

The national says its fighting to guarantee semipermanent attraction workers gain a surviving wage.

Collective agreements for these workers expired successful 2023.

Barbara Adams, Nova Scotia’s semipermanent attraction minister, says the authorities is offering salary increases of astatine slightest 12 per cent complete 4 years, while immoderate workers would spot salary bumps of 24 per cent.

There’s besides a 70 per cent summation successful displacement and play premiums.

It besides includes money to group up a defined use pension scheme for workers astatine accommodation that presently don’t person this benefit.