RED DEER – Thirteen Alberta Union of Provincial Employees locals with a combined membership of more than 3,500 will hold their first-ever joint annual general meeting in Red Deer this evening.

Approximately 300 local representatives plus AUPE elected officers and staff are expected to be at the joint AGM, at which several important items of union business are expected to be dealt with.

AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Vice-President Lynne Gingras will give short remarks before the members get down to business.

Media representatives are welcome to attend.

Among the items on the agenda is the restructuring of AUPE’s health sector locals in the region.

"AUPE in the Central Alberta Region will have a slightly different structure in its health care components after this meeting," MacLennan explained.

"The process of restructuring our health sector is happening everywhere in Alberta, including the Red Deer area," he said. "This will further increase member participation and communication among various similar groups.

"By holding a large meeting with many locals from throughout the Red Deer region, AUPE has an opportunity to exchange ideas and build on the strength and diversity of our union," MacLennan added. "Members get to see the diversity and strength of our union right in the Red Deer area."

Each of the locals represented at the meeting will break off to hold elections, and the restructured health locals will elect their new executives, said AUPE Membership Services Officer Kathy Kadyk.

"We’ll have dinner, and we’ll hear some short traditional speeches, but the key business of the night will be electing chapter officers and doing union business," Kadyk said.

At the meeting will be representatives from the Central Alberta area of government administration and support services, government administration and program services, Alberta correctional services, trades and related services, Alberta natural resources and conservation officers, Michener Centre patient support and rehabilitation staff, government technical and field services, Alberta Treasury Branch employees and health care sector employees from the various hospitals and health centres in the David Thompson Health Region.

The meeting gets under way at 6:30 p.m. at the North Hill Inn, 7150 Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer.
AUPE has approximately 49,500 members throughout Alberta.


For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone)
Kathy Kadyk, Membership Services Officer, AUPE, 403-343-2100 or 780-993-0416 (cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone)

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