Are you a CNA at a nursing home that takes Medicaid residents?
Then you should be getting a raise of up to 
$4/hour
starting July 1, 2022.
CNAs are on the front lines caring for the most vulnerable. Paying us more will help address the staffing shortage and provide better care to our residents.
I was one of hundreds of CNAs who called and emailed lawmakers in Olympia. We urged them to invest in living wages for workers in skilled nursing facilities.
And we won $48 million more for all 200+ skilled nursing Medicaid facilities in WA!
Now it’s up to us. We must make sure our employers actually pass on that money to CNAs.
Send your email NOW to officials at DSHS asking them to make sure this raise comes to us, not to administrators or other areas.
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I am a retired C.N.A. ,HomeHeath Aid, P.C.T. and Nanny. In all my professions I was unpaid for the amount of work I did. So now I support my fellow C.N.A.s in Florida for higher wages by signing this petition.
Every CNA in Florida needs a raise as the price of living had risen…
yes all the CNAs in Florida and in the rest of the country. As frontline workers, we deserve raises.
CNA’s work Hard to make sure that ( in my case) the residents are well taken care of…
Bathing, Feeding, changing, making them feel important, etc…
Alot of Great CNA’s will be having to quit there jobs for better paying jobs, or get a second job.
To hard to work two jobs…
In all, we just can’t make ends meet, the way that the pay is now…
Please increase the wage for XNA nursing. It is not a living wage in Washington where I have worked as a medication technician. Thank you!
Yes! Such a hard job to do with very minimal pay. We need to be able to support our families without feeling forced to quit or get another job.
How can you expect anyone to even start being a CNA when you have McDonald’s working for $16 an hour? We do a lot more than flip patients; we get them dressed we feed them change their soiled roofs bathe dress and answer call light switch constantly going. And we are not assigned one person per shift we have up to maybe 10 or 12 for an 8-hour shift at least. I would like to know who figured out the pay average scale on these jobs because our jobs are a lot harder than flipping a burger for the same pay; then you wonder why I was short of CNAs ?
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Cna jobs are hard from the start and very stressful. Not to mention the demand that takes place everyday from all areas that we go though, plus the lack of staff .We diverse more income and better working conditions .
CNAs deserve a living wage. We are on the front lines in Elderly care and pressured to work Overtime weekly as there are not enough of us. We take care of the most vulnerable elderly. We shower people, cut nails, dress people and these are grandparents and great grandparents who pay extremely high living costs! Companies like Prestige are rich and pay low, low wages. They pay caregivers 10 dollars an hour. Much less than fast food workers! We are responsible for lives!! I was also a medication technician and responsible for all the drugs in a busy facility. Not fair how all the companies care about is Money
No
Yes! We deserve healthy workplaces
100% agree
When minimum wage went up our value went down. It took me 20 years to reach my wage, now high school dropouts can make the same. We deserve more respect by more pay.
Yes, respect and better pay!!!
The main source of nursing is CNA, without CNA nursing staff is nothing. On that situation every nursing facility have to add 4 dollars more on the top of daily rate.
CNAs do so much to support nurses, we need and deserve better pay
Working through the Corona Virus Pendemic, I believe all care aides deserve higher wages due to many health problems that we deal with.
100% agree, all caregivers and frontline workers
I am not sure what their wage is now, but it absolutely should be 4$ or twice that much!! It is an absolute crime that the wages in USA are so insulting..!!
I live in assisted living and I know first hand how caring and hard working they are!
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I live in an adult family home. Three CNAs work here. Also my best friend is a CNA. They work hard! The job doesn’t pay well at all. They deserve a raise!!!
Yes all CNAs deserve a raise!
Cna’s need to be acknowledge more on the hard job they do.
We are in need of more additional wages too due to inflation ( gas prices, food and places to live utilities rising up)
Some recognition for our hard work, healthier workplaces and better wages
Our jobs are needed and we deserve more for what we do
I agree
I have to voice my passion for your kindness giving support
to those people that should have guidance on this important matter.
Thank u for using your voice to advocate for us <3
We are in need of more additional wages too due to inflation ( gas prices, food and places to live utilities rising up) We all deserve higher wages with this pandemic we all work hard for the work we do.
It’s gotten too expensive to live here… our wages should reflect that
I only got a 50 cent raise last raise. I feel CNA’s should be making minimum of $30 an hour. I have a BS degree plus my CNA certificate and only make $20 a hour in a skilled facility . In addition, I have to keep up my certificate each year plus credentials. Not only this, I even took a medication technician course, got certified, and no compensation for it. Furthermore, travel agencies pay CNA’s more then the permanent employees in skilled facility. I feel this isn’t right and not fair. I want to get paid the same.
Thank you
30$/hr at least, I agree
Thank you for fighting for us.
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I love what I do even before I became a CNA. In this field, we are the backbone of this industry. We are caring, compassionate, and our clients becomes so reliable with us because we are their right hands to perform what they need. We all strive everyday to provide they needs or go behind the scope of work to reassure they’re needs everyday.
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I am a CNA and HHA a and we don’t get pay as we should. We do all the job and get paid a low wage.
Yes, we need this raise- overdue.
I have worked 17 years as a CNA.. and can’t get a raise..I only earn $15.00 hour.
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I’m a CNA & i love what i’m doing it’s just sad bcz we know if we are not here no one would do our job to assist and help the elderly People
Let our voices be heard
Yes!!!
CNA’s work extremely hard for little money. I am disabled and watch my caregiver work, above and beyond. All caregivers in the US deserve a raise! ????❤
Yes, they do. CNAs deserve a LOT more recognition and more money. I’m now 69 and I know how hard it is as I worked as a CNA for 23 years.
thank you Sheila for your time as a CNA <3
All of them! <3
All CNAs work extremely hard, above and beyond and don’t get paid enough! They all deserve a raise!
I worked as a CNA for 25 plus years and let me tell you nothing easy about the job but someone has to give the elderly the help and love and kindness they need and it’s so very shameful that these corporations charge the residents a arm and leg but want paid the help decent wages I still have current CNA license and I’m 70years old and still working as a unit secretary
We do so much, care so much, we deserve this raise and more!
I worked for 25 years as a cna in home health care and when I retired 11 years ago was only making $1.50 an hour over minimum wage. When new clients came available they gave them the hours because they could pay them less. Some of the workers were terrible,poorly groomed and poor care.
All CNA need arise they do the dirty and hard job but they are always looked down
yes!
All CNAs deserve a $4 plus raise. We have been in the trenches forever and especially those who are in the homes where most of these things start. What’s so hard about taking care of the people who take care of your families? Our families deserve to be taken care of to buy us. We do this because we love what we do. It would be nice if someone appreciated what we do.
I agree!