We are Greater Manchester’s care and support workers. We provide exceptional care within care homes, homecare and supported living services across our city’s ten local authorities.
We worked tirelessly during the pandemic to care for Greater Manchester – but does Greater Manchester care about us?
Thousands of us are paid less than the Foundation Living Wage (£9.90) whilst many of our employers continue to profit from our hard work. We feel under-valued, under-appreciated and under-paid. This is why thousands of excellent dedicated care workers are leaving the profession for better paid jobs in other industries, which is worsening the social care staffing crisis.
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has committed to Greater Manchester becoming a Living Wage City-Region and called for care and support workers to receive a “massive pay rise” – and now care and support workers across the city are coming together to turn those ambitions into reality.
We are Greater Manchester’s care and support workers. And we demand a pay rise.
- We call on Greater Manchester’s ten local authorities to require the Foundation Living Wage as a minimum starting salary for all directly employed and commissioned care and support workers.
- We call on Andy Burnham to work with us to deliver the Foundation Living Wage as a minimum starting salary for all of Greater Manchester’s care and support workers.
- And we call on members of the public to hold local councillors to account and stand with us in our campaign for a pay rise.
#DoesGreaterManchesterCare? #WeDemandAPayRise
Danielle Dolan, Care Worker in Stockport, Greater Manchester
