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For immediate release October 27 2006
Heather Smith re-elected at
UNA meeting in Edmonton
Heather Smith was re-elected provincial President of the United Nurses of Alberta at the nurses’ unions convention in Edmonton, Thursday.
Chandra Clarke, a nurse from the Edmonton Grey Nuns Hospital, was also nominated for President.
“I’m honoured to continue representing nurses,” Heather Smith said when the results were announced. “Our members are confident in their union as we face a trying time for nursing,” she said. “The shortage of nurses, the workload, stress and extra hours working is taking a toll on our Registered nurses. And we are going to work through our union to try to solve these serious problems,” Heather Smith said.
In her speech to the members, Heather noted that the upcoming provincial negotiations will have to directly confront the issues of the shortage, retaining and recruiting nurses.
“We have to solve these problems, and we will,” she said.
Nearly 700 nurses, observers and voting delegates were at the convention held at the Agricom in Edmonton.
UNA is the union of over 23,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and a small number of allied health care workers.
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