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AUPE News & Updates
Member Updates
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003
AUPE members saddened by workplace tragedy
CALGARY – Executive, staff and fellow members of the Alberta Union
of Provincial Employees join co-workers and friends of an AUPE member
killed in a workplace accident Wednesday in deep sadness and shock.
The woman was killed when a car crashed through a window of ATB Financial’s
Northpointe Branch in northwest Calgary where she worked.
Five other ATB Financial employees, one of them an AUPE member, were
injured when the car crashed into the branch boardroom, where a routine
morning meeting was taking place.
Calgary police are still investigating the tragedy and the names of
the victims have not yet been released.
“This is a terrible tragedy for family, friends and co-workers,”
said AUPE President Dan MacLennan.
“AUPE staff will be in contact with the family and will do everything
in their power to assist those who are affected by this tragic situation
in any way possible,” he said.
Click here to read Calgary news coverage
of the tragedy.
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 780-7171-2943
(cellular phone)
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