New report gives immigrant health-care aides platform to speak out on COVID working conditions

A new report is using the stories of immigrant women working as health-care aides in Calgary's long-term care homes to shed light on the extreme pressures of the job and areas that could be improved in the future.

The report, titled 'More Than Just a Health Care Aide: Immigrant Women Speak About the COVID-19 Crisis in Long-Term Care', is a collaboration between University of Calgary sociology professor Naomi Lightman and the Calgary Immigrant Women's Association, in conjunction with the Parkland Institute.

It hears stories of dirty, demanding, high-risk jobs with workers facing huge financial and mental health pressures, working on the front lines of COVID-19, usually for poor pay and working conditions.

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