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AUPE News & Updates
Notice to Media: March 4, 2003
AUPE plans information picket at Fort McMurray’s Northern Lights
Regional Health Centre
What: Information picket by AUPE members.
Why: To express concerns about the need for a northern allowance for
health workers.
When: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5.
Where: Northern Lights Regional Health Centre, 7 Hospital Street, Fort
McMurray.
FORT McMURRAY – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
will take part in an information picket Thursday at Fort McMurray’s
hospital to express their concern about the need for their northern
allowance to be restored.
Despite the high cost of living in their northern community, AUPE health
care workers in Fort McMurray lost their northern living allowance more
than a year ago.
"Our union and membership knows that the cost of living in Fort
McMurray, especially in areas such as housing, is something that clearly
makes Fort McMurray an exceptional situation compared to elsewhere in
Alberta," said AUPE President Dan MacLennan, who will attend the
information picket.
"The health region needs to restore the allowance for these employees
as long as the cost of living in Fort McMurray is significantly higher
than elsewhere in Alberta," MacLennan said.
The information picket will take place outside the main entrance of
the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre, 7 Hospital Street, Fort
McMurray, between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5.
MacLennan will also be attending an AUPE joint annual general meeting
in Fort McMurray that day, and will be available for media interviews
on the northern allowance issue, the government’s plans to transfer
mental health service to health regions, and on plans by the government
to legislate functional bargaining units in health care.
Media interested in an interview should contact MacLennan on his cellular
phone – 780-910-8392.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
Jeff Ryder, Union Representative, AUPE, St. Paul, 780-645-6656 or 780-645-0669
(cellular phone)
Angie Pennell, AUPE Chapter Chair, Fort McMurray, 780-791-1083
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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