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AUPE News & Updates
Member Updates
April 02, 2003
AUPE Web site provides background on Health Restructuring Act
EDMONTON – AUPE has created a Web page with links to information
about the Labour Relations (Regional Health Authorities Restructuring)
Amendment Act, 2003.
The Act, known as Bill 27 when it passed through the legislature, received
Royal Assent on March 27, 2003, and has major implications for health
care workers and their unions.
The act takes away the legal right to strike from large numbers of health
care workers and nullifies specific provisions of legally negotiated
contracts.
In addition, it creates four "functional bargaining units"
for each of the nine regional health authorities – in general support
services, auxiliary nursing care, direct nursing, and paramedical and
professional. Each bargaining unit will have one collective agreement
and one union.
The government says the act will be fully implemented by the fall of
2004. This will result in runoff votes in some health regions between
unions who now represent employees doing the same jobs.
The process for implementation of the act depended heavily on the regulations,
which were made available to the affected unions on March 31.
AUPE Health Care Local Executives and the Provincial Executive are scheduled
to meet on April 11 and 12 to discuss implications of the act and regulations.
Links to information about the act and regulations from the government
of Alberta and the Alberta Labour Relations Board are listed below.
ARB Background Information
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