EDMONTON – Lawyers for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees were in the Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench this morning seeking an injunction preventing the Canadian Union of Public Employees from using an AUPE membership list.

AUPE asked for the injunction to require the immediate return of the list, and to prevent its further use by any unauthorized party.

The list contains the names and addresses of members of AUPE Local 054, which represents support workers at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

AUPE further filed a statement of claim seeking compensation from CUPE and some of that union’s agents for harm suffered because of the use by CUPE of AUPE’s confidential material.

In the injunction hearing Friday, CUPE was granted an adjournment to prepare affidavits on the basis that it has returned the list to AUPE and has erased it from its database.

The court gave CUPE until Tuesday to prepare its material.

The court gave AUPE the right to bring the matter back to court on one day’s notice.
AUPE intends to proceed with the action.

For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone)

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