PrintUNA advocates for improvements to workplace security
Alberta Health Services has listened to United Nurses of Alberta members who raised concerns about worksite security through Article 34 of the Provincial Collective Agreement.
AHS is in the process of composing a list of ten sites in each of the five zones where security needs have been identified and UNA and other health care unions have been asked to help identify sites viewed as being at risk.
AHS will then conduct a physical site assessment with staff involvement on security needs in which security enhancements would be identified. Enhancements could range from security cameras, alarms systems to having security on site. This process will begin in 2016. This change represents a structural shift in the way security needs are now being delivered.
UNA locals representing members employed by AHS submitted security surveys to the union in spring 2015. Survey results were provided to the employer and helped support UNA's case that improvement to security is required.
