Compass Group wants to import cleaners
Source: CUPE (Canada), October 12, 2007 11:26 AM
A private contractor in BC is having a hard time recruiting and retaining people to do the most dangerous, and dirty health care jobs for $12.59 an hour. Imagine that.
To HEU, the solution is simple.
"The provincial government should require health care contractors to provide living wages to their workers," says HEU Secretary-Business Manager Judy Darcy.
But Compass, a British multinational that posted $1 billion in profits last year, apparently really likes the low wage. So they're proposing hiring temporary foreign workers to clean operating rooms and feed patients in Vancouver Island hospitals.