150 Workers Affected By Notice
Mississauga-based Chartwell Seniors' Housing REIT— the operator of Malaspina Gardens - today gave six months' notice of layoff to its staff and confirmed that it will contract out their work.
It's a move that will disrupt the continuity of care for the frail elderly and others who receive care at the facility, according to the Hospital Employees' Union.
"Chartwell has decided to lay off this team of committed and experienced health care workers - some with decades of service at Malaspina Gardens - in order to protect its profit margin," says HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson.
"It's just one more example of how provincial government policies in this sector have failed seniors and their families and put the economic security of health care workers - mostly women - at risk."
Pearson notes that Chartwell will continue to receive public funding to operate Malaspina Gardens and will face no financial penalty for lowering the boom on its workers. It will be able to keep any savings that result from contracting out to a low-wage subcontractor.
What a joke, when is this going to stop?
ReplyDeletewhat happened to "We Care"
ReplyDeleteThis needs correction. It's not 150 workers, it was 177 -- even worse than your original blog suggested. It's a disaster for everyone -- the residents and their families, the excellent and caring staff and their families, senior care in Nanaimo and BC and Canada -- Chartwell is national, and others are doing the same. It has to stop. We have to send a message to national and provincial governments that Canadians will not accept this. We will vote them out. Chartwell will lose as well -- it's been proven over and over again that these are not viable business practices, apart from their inhumanity.
ReplyDeleteFor Malaspina Gardens NURSING STAFF AND RESIDENTS.
ReplyDeleteyou smile when we hold your hand,
We shed a tear, when relations are
not near.We grow from your wisdom and thoughts, We honor your life as you go out in grace.
A human bond hard to describe, except
to acknowledge my friends you've been great. In solidarity we stand as for the last time we hold your hand.
Goodbye to you all as they terminate our call. Residents we love you as now we fall. Thank you Chartwell your
your conscience Is small.