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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Mar. 14, 2003
AUPE and Alberta Mental Health Board reach agreement
EDMONTON – Negotiators for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
and the Alberta Mental Health Board have reached agreement on new tentative
contracts for approximately 2,500 employees of the board.
Terms of the tentative agreements will not be made public until the
members of AUPE Local 042 have had the opportunity to vote on the agreements.
If ratified by AUPE members and the AMHB, the new agreements with the
AMHB will continue as the AUPE members’ collective agreements with
the nine Alberta health regions when the services provided by the board
are transferred to the health regions on April 1, 2003.
AUPE represents employees of the AMHB at Alberta Hospital Ponoka, Alberta
Hospital Edmonton, facilities in Raymond and Claresholm and community
mental health clinics throughout the province. The province is scheduled
to transfer operation of all those facilities to health regions on April
1.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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