S1:E6 - CUPE LTC Strike NS ft: Ty Loppie

The conversation around long-term care staffing just got very real.With the CUPE strike impacting LTC starting today, we sit down with Ty Loppie—a Personal Care Worker with six years of frontline experience and the Young Worker VP for CUPE—to talk about what this moment actually means inside our homes.This isn’t policy talk from the outside.This is lived experience from the floor.We get into:What led to this point—and what’s often misunderstoodThe realities staff face every day in LTCHow staffing, safety, and quality of care are directly connectedWhat workers are asking for—and why it mattersWhat this means for residents, families, and the future of careIf you work in long-term care—or care about the system at all—this is a conversation you need to hear.Because behind every headline… there are real people carrying the weight of the system.