Make Care Worker’s Voice Heard Survey
Greetings,
*Friendly Reminder to All Locals to please participate in the Make Care Worker’s Voice Heard Survey*
Uni Care’s Global Union Health has extended their survey deadline until February 2, 2025.
Your participation in this survey will be much appreciated and we encourage you to get the link out to all members.
UNI Care’s Global Health has reached out to me and asked for my assistance to help promote and distribute an important global survey for health and care workers.
Make Care Workers’ Voice Heard Survey Link: https://uniglobalunion-surveys.org/
While many of these issues were captured in UNI Care’s initial Global Survey of Health and Care Workers, we are revisiting them to assess the progress made since then. Have wages and working conditions improved? Are staffing levels adequate? What about violence and harassment, informal and insecure work, and the challenges faced by migrant workers?
As you all know on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, acknowledging its devastating impact across over 110 countries and territories. During this unprecedented crisis, our members in the health and care sector were at the forefront, risking their own lives to save and care for others. Despite being celebrated as heroes and receiving promises of systemic reform, the cracks in health and care systems exposed by the pandemic remain a pressing concern.
These critical questions will be addressed in UNI Care’s Global Survey of Health and Care Workers 2.0, which launches on Monday 6 January. Our goal is to gather thousands of responses by February 2, 2025. The insights will shape our upcoming sectoral report, to be released on the 5th anniversary of the pandemic: March 11, 2025.
This Global Survey will provide UNI Care and our affiliates with robust data to advocate for urgent improvements in the sector. It will support our campaigns for decent and dignified jobs, free from avoidable violence and harassment, in well-funded and properly resourced healthcare systems. Where statistically valid data is available for a specific country or region, we can share it with relevant affiliates for local use.
I appreciate your help with promoting and distributing this survey link to all relevant members.
In Solidarity,
Kelly-Anne Orr
Unifor Assistant to the National Officers