As of 12:01 a.m. Friday, September 22, CUPE 3314 public health workers will be on strike for wages that come a bit closer to meeting the rising cost of living due to inflation and to secure sufficient funding for public health to protect our communities from transmissible diseases (e.g. COVID-19, flu, STDs, rabies), foodborne illnesses (e.g. E. coli), dirty water, tobacco smoke and cancer, etc.