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Legislation brought in by the former B.C. Liberal government in 2002 allows long-term care homes to contract out such services.
The nurses who work at the Lynn Valley Care Centre are represented by the BC Nurses' Union, but the facility's other care aides — who previously fell under the Hospital Employees' Union — haven't been unionized since 2012. It also stopped representing the home's kitchen aides and dietary staff after those services were contracted out in 2017.
Care aides at the facility told the Globe and Mail recently that wages and benefits have since slipped dramatically.