CUPE blames low patient satisfaction with hospital cleanliness on cuts

Complaints about cleanliness in New Brunswick hospitals are due to staff shortages and “a lack of backfill for absent workers,” says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). “Norma Robinson, president of the New Brunswick Council of Hospital Unions, CUPE Local 1252, contends the problem will only get worse if the provincial government proceeds with plans to privatize the management of cleaning and food services.”