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SEWAGE NETWORK AND WASTEWATER
PLANTS AND DRINKING WATER
TREATMENT FACILITIES.
MINNESOTACARE GIVERS TODAY
RALLIED AT THE STATE CAPITAL TO
CALL FOR HIGHER WAGES AND THEY
ARE WARNING STATE LAWMAKERS AND
ALREADY SERIES WORKFORCE
SHORTAGE IS GETTING WORSE.
PAT KESSLER IS THAT THE CAPITAL
AND HE JOINS US LIVE WITH MORE.
Reporter: YEAH TENS OF
THOUSANDS MINNESOTACARE GIVERS
MAKE AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT $11 AN
HOUR AND A THINK ABOUT THAT FOR
A MINUTE, THAT IS AT OR JUST
ABOUT THE MINIMUM WAGE HERE IN
THE STATE.
TO SECURE FOR PEOPLE TO
CIVILITIES AND OLDER ADULTS ALL
AROUND THE STATE AND THERE ARE
99,000 CAREGIVERS AND THE NEED
IS GOING REALLY FAST AS BABY
BOOMERS AGE.
THERE AND 8700 JOB VACANCIES
BECAUSE THE PAY IS SO LOW, THEY
ARE ASKING FOR A 5% PAY HIKE
WHICH IS ABOUT $.55 AN HOUR.
WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR
CAREGIVERS AND FOR PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES ALL ACROSS THE
STATE OF MINNESOTA THAT WE GET
A 5% RAISE INCREASE FOR 2016.
BUT IS STILL AN UPHILL
BATTLE AND HERE'S WHERE IT
STANDS, REPUBLICANS ARE
PROPOSING A 5% PAY HIKE FOR
THOSE WORKERS, MANY OF WHOM ARE
IN RURAL THE SENATE AND
DEMOCRATS ARE PROPOSING MUCH
LESS, SO THERE IS DRAMA AMELIA
BUT I THINK THAT WE WILL SEE OF
THE CAPITAL AS THEY NEGOTIATE
THEY WILL PROBABLY GET SOME
KIND OF RAISED THAT WAY TOO