The clock is ticking and time is running out to reach a competitive agreement with allied health.
Manitobans are experiencing firsthand the direct results of underinvestment in the health-care system and the professionals who sustain it.
Allied health professionals are highly specialized. They’re foundational to a well-functioning health-care system, and they’re trying their very best to deliver high-quality patient care amid chronic understaffing and heavy workloads. They’re also increasingly concerned about their capacity to manage growing demand for services.
In January 2024, following nine months working under an expired contract and as an expression of their growing frustration and exhaustion, allied health professionals employed in the public health-care system voted 96% in favour of a strike mandate.
Allied health professionals have always being willing to step up to address the health-care system’s intensifying challenges. But our members can’t wait much longer.