Gratitude for frontline healthcare workers was abundant during the pandemic as they risked their own wellbeing to care for others.

But those who stood on the sidewalk outside the John Noble Home on Wednesday afternoon protesting a two-and-a-half-year wait for a new contract say that has changed.

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“We went from hero to zero,” said Charice Beard-Chartier, a laundry processor in support services and union steward at the municipally-owned long-term care facility.

As essential workers, Beard-Chartier said they have no right to strike. But many of about 250 registered practical nurses, personal support workers and support service employees at John Noble Home who are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents about 60,000 frontline workers

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