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Preparing to Picket
Find picket line locations, do’s and don’ts, a daily checklist, and more.
Setting yourself up for Strike Pay
Get step-by-step instructions to set yourself up to receive strike pay by direct deposit.
Show your support.
Wondering how you can support allied health professionals right now?
Voice your concerns online.
We’ve created a suite of graphics and some helpful facts (at the bottom of this page) for our members, partner unions and associations, and the general public to share on social media. Change out your profile picture, post across platforms, and share with your connections to stand in solidarity with +7,000 allied health professionals.
Send an email to our elected officials.
An allied health strike will cause delays to important health-care and social services, cancelled surgeries, even longer wait times than Manitobans are experiencing already, and broken trust.
Click below to send an email to our elected officials, telling them it’s time to fix our broken system and it’s critical to avoid an allied health strike.
Who is allied health?
- We deliver essential health-care and social services, working in 50+ specialized disciplines, from addictions counselling to diagnostics (CTs, MRIs, ultrasound, lab, etc.) and from paramedicine to occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, audiology, spiritual care, and many more.
- We work alongside physicians and nurses in prevention, emergency response, assessment, treatment, therapy, rehabilitation and recovery.
- We are foundational to the health-care system. Roughly 80% of the information physicians need to make a diagnosis/treatment plan comes from allied health.
Why are we on strike?
- The vast majority of MAHCP’s members are now at 11 months without a contract.
- Allied health is the only public health-care sector in Manitoba without a current contract. Our system is in crisis and cannot be repaired without investing in allied health.
- Our provincial government was elected on a promise to fix health care. Time is running out.
What are our main concerns?
- Retention and recruitment.
Allied health professionals are specialized and essential. We’re in a staffing crisis, which puts patient care at risk.
- Hiring is not competitive in Manitoba.
Other provinces are offering hiring incentives our province isn’t matching, so we are losing people that are difficult to replace.
- Many of us work in departments with high vacancy rates.
These positions often go unfilled, so we are left to work harder without any relief in sight. There aren’t enough of us to meet the increasing demands, which means wait lists grow and patient care suffers.
- Post-secondary training seats are not filling up.
That means we’re not educating new allied health professionals quickly enough to address departures and retirements.
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