PrintUNA members throughout Alberta to send important Valentine’s message to Albertans on Thursday
Health Care
Members of United Nurses of Alberta will hold pre-Valentine’s Day information walks and other activities at 25 health care facilities in 17 communities throughout Alberta on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.
Those events include five each in Calgary and Edmonton as well as in Camrose, Drayton Valley, Fairview, Fort McMurray, High River, Hinton, Jasper, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Olds, Peace River, Red Deer, St. Albert, Stony Plain and Vermilion.
Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses represented by UNA will show their support for publicly delivered health care and all the front-line workers who make it happen. Most Alberta health care workers including UNA members are facing the possibility of layoffs and major rollbacks of contract provisions. As many as 750 RNs and RPNs could be laid off in the next year in downsizing planned by Alberta Health Services.
UNA anticipates health care workers from other unions joining the information walks.
Formal bargaining for UNA’s Provincial General Agreement began on Jan. 15 with public-sector employers proposing four years of pay freezes and massive rollbacks to the nurses’ current collective agreement.
UNA members’ Valentine’s message to the people of Alberta is this: Health care workers like nurses are the heart of Alberta’s health care system, which is the envy of the world. Don’t let our government cut the heart out of health care!
Most information walks will take place over the noon hour near community hospitals and health care facilities. A complete list with locations and times is found on UNA’s website, una.ca.
UNA represents more than 30,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and allied health care workers and public, not-for-profit and for-profit health care and seniors’ care facilities throughout Alberta.
