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While front-line Ottawa hospital and long-term care workers were overwhelmed caring for the sick over two years COVID-19 during the pandemic, PC MPP’s like Nepean’s Lisa MacLeod proudly defended their government’s 1% wage cap legislation (Bill 124) that with rising Inflation hits the province’s “pandemic heroines” with a 4% real wage cut in 2021 and more than a 4% cut again in 2022.
On Monday March 14 they will be at MacLeod’s Nepean office, protesting and asking her to ‘stand with them, not against them’ and to help push her government to repeal Bill 124.
“The Ford government’s wage cap devalues and disrespects a largely female workforce that has made huge personal sacrifices. It cuts their real wages and leaves them with no ability to bargain badly needed mental supports after the trauma of caring for patients and residents through …
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