EVENT: Lunch-hour information picket by AUPE members employed at Alberta Children’s Hospital.
PURPOSE: To express concerns about contract negotiations and the threat of contracting out members’ jobs.
TIME: 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, 2002.
LOCATION: In front of the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary.

CALGARY – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees working at the Alberta Children’s Hospital will hold a lunch-hour information picket to show their concern with negotiations for a new collective agreement and the threat of contracting out members’ jobs.

The information picket will take place from 11:30 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

AUPE President Dan MacLennan, who will be in Calgary for the information picket and who will be available for media interviews, said workers at the Children’s Hospital are determined to be treated fairly in this round of negotiations.

"These support-care employees of Alberta Children’s Hospital will make it clear to management that they deserve fair increases in this present round of negotiations," he said.

AUPE represents over 450 employees at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. In all, AUPE is currently negotiating new contracts for more than 19,000 health care workers across the province.


For more information, contact:
Karen Thibault, Union Representative, AUPE, 403-531-8607 or 403-816-7852 (cellular phone)
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone)
Rick Zanatta, Communications Staff, AUPE, 780-930-3387

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