The Rocmaura Nursing Home was the scene of an information picket on Mother’s Day by members of CUPE Local 1603, the nursing home workers who are still waiting for changes to be made to the hours of care they provide.
Tammy Nadeau, is the Local president and says this has been going on far too many years.
“We had these issues since 2001 when we went on strike, we had a study done in 2001 that came back in 2002 saying we needed to go to an immediate 3.5 hours of care, and here we are in 2018 at only 3.1 hours of care,” says Nadeau.
Pam Sharkey, whose mother has been at Rocmaura for ten years agrees with the workers saying there need to be more hours of care for their loved ones.
“There’s just not enough people to go around to feed them or change them, my mother was very active herself but now that she needs the care the staff isn’t here to do it. The staff that is here, they just go above and beyond their job, they really do, they need to hire more people,” says Sharkey.
Nadeau says they chose Mother’s Day for the information picket because they knew loved ones would receive visitors and wanted to get the information out to the people to lobby government.
