5 of those hospitals have ongoing closures. Plus, two other communities lost ambulatory care.
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19 AB hospitals lost their ER in August 2025
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Thorhild County workers get 8% raise
There will also be increases to boot allowance and tool allowance and a new power allowance.
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Edmonton housing workers offered 6.75% raise
Over the last two collective agreements, these roughly 100 workers saw real wages drop by nearly 11%.
There’s a persistent myth in Alberta that minimum wage workers are mostly teenagers. Except, this just isn’t true.
The organization is funded primarily through Alberta’s Persons with Developmental Disabilities programmes, and unless PDD funding increases for them, they cannot provide raises for their workers.
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Sewer & water workers get 5.8% raise
The workers will also get a boot allowance and shift differential, changes to overtime, and an increase in pension and health contributions.
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NorQuest College offers workers 10% raise
Unfortunately, they received a real wage cut of almost 19% over their last two contracts, so this falls short.
The workers will also see an increase to their shift differential, tool allowance, and the number of stat holidays.
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3,500 AB construction workers get 10% raise
The workers will also see an increase to their shift differential and an additional stat holiday,
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Edmonton trade workers get first contract
This is a first collective agreement for these workers.