[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“I’m hoping the next girls that take over for me, that they have a good relationship and the new ones deserve a raise, too.”While the calls for pandemic pay and increased wages lie at the centre of workers’ job action, employees say there are deeper concerns.The workplace is 90 per cent women, with most of them making less than $22 an hour. “You have to wonder — if this was a place that was filled with male employees, if the pay wouldn’t be a little better,” said Rosamond, adding she does not believe the company has been discriminatory in any way.“They’d like to be in a spot where they can spend those years at home with their families, with their grandchildren,.