Contract negotiations broke down recently between Alberta Health Services and the union representing paramedical technical, professional, and general support workers after AHS refused to budge on wage freezes for 21% of the workers in this contract.
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Plenty of nurses say they plan to reject the mediator recommendations, and some are ready for a strike.
These convictions were related to 7 workers being killed and 6 workers being injured in their workplaces.
And that’s despite 12,000 people leaving Alberta’s labour force.
Two communities lost their ER for over 200 hours, and two lost theirs for just under 100 hours.
Last year, unionized private sector workers, on average, received a wage increase nearly double that of public sector workers, based on the last available data.
During the second quarter of 2024, the Alberta government recorded a drug-related death rate of 69.4 per 100,000 person years in Lethbridge. The next highest was 42.8 in Edmonton.
Some of the workers have seen 10 years of wage freezes.
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Fort McKay workers get 8.43% raise
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Edmonton Loblaws workers get 9.5% raise
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