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The Members Benefits Committee met at AUPE Headquarters
in Edmonton recently to review, among other things, benefit applications. |
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AUPE members and their families participated in the
2004 Grande Prairie Christmas Parade held on Nov. 28. Local 006
and Local 002 members showed their holiday spirit by entering a
float in this year’s parade. |
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Members of AUPE Local 118/009 ratified a two-year
agreement on Dec. 10 at the county’s services facility in
Sherwood Park, east of Edmonton. Strathcona County Council ratified
the agreement at their regularmeeting on Dec. 14. |
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Members of AUPE Local 043 Council held their Christmas
social and gift exchange at Edmonton’s Royal Executive Inn
on Nov. 29. Local 043’s former staff advisor, Gil Laflamme
(posing in foreground) was in attendance. |
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Members of AUPE’s GSS Bargaining Committee,
Support Services, for Locals 056 and 057, held a bargaining session
at the union’s Edmonton Headquarters on Dec. 13. |
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AUPE Labour Relations Manager Ron Hodgins addresses
Union Stewards from Local 052, representing employees of the University
of Calgary, at the union’s Calgary Regional Office Dec. 9.
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Members from AUPE’s Northwest Region participated
in a Basic Union Steward Course at the Peace River office on Nov.
18-19. Brian Randall, Union Representative, and Tim Falkiner, Member
Services Officer with the Grande Prairie office, instructed the
course. |
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AUPE members embraced an opportunity to spread some
Christmas cheer, during the annual High River Christmas Parade
held recently. Locals 45 and 95 entered a float in the parade. |
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A long-service and retirement dinner was held on
Oct. 28 at the Edmonton General Hospital for several AUPE members.
From left to right are: Dan MacLennan, AUPE President; Henrietta
Maquiling, 30 years of service and retired; Lynne
Gingras, AUPE Vice-President; Amelia VanStraten, 30 years and retired; Sue Macklon,
30 years and still employed; Myrna Lewin, 10 years service and Local 046/05 Chapter
Treasurer; Ruth Tasic, 30 years service and still employed; Remy Sanchez, 10
years of service and Local 046/05 Chapter Chair; and Gloria Surridge, Local 046
Chair. Congratulations to those members that were honoured for their years of
service. |
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Left to right: Ken Kowalski, Speaker of the Alberta
Legislative Assembly, Sharon Doucet, GSS Local 006/001 and Dan
MacLennan, AUPE President, posed for a photograph on Nov. 8, during
AUPE’s RemembranceDay wreath presentation ceremony held at
the Alberta Legislature. |
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Members of AUPE’s Committee on Political Action
(COPA) met at the union’s Calgary Regional Office Dec. 4.
Top row, left to right: Brad Smith, Local 050, St. Albert; Cherelyn
Stefaniszyn, Local 057, Blackfalds; Vice-President Ron Whan (COPA
Chair), Local 071, Lethbridge; Carol Carbol, Local 046, Edmonton.
Foreground: Jason Heistad, Local 071, Innisfail; Don Westman, Local
003, Fort Saskatchewan. |
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Members of the union’s Occupational Health
and Safety Standing Committee met at AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton
on Nov. 30. Committee Vice-Chair Hal Griffith, of Local 003/001
(right) discusses an issue with union VP and committee Chair Garnett
Robinson and Shane Sammons, of Local 052/002. |
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It was a special evening Nov. 25 for 18 AUPE members
who graduated from a fast-track Nursing Attendant program created
by NorQuest College and the Nightingale Academy at the suggestion
of AUPE. Many of the 18 graduates of the program, all employees
of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, were presented
with their certificates by AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Vice-President
Lynne Gingras. Local 046 secretary Shauna Warrilow (above left)
presents a graduation pin to Daniel Balantac, while AUPE President
Dan MacLennan looks on. |
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It was a special evening Nov. 25 for 18 AUPE members
who graduated from a fast-track Nursing Attendant program created
by NorQuest College and the Nightingale Academy at the suggestion
of AUPE. Many of the 18 graduates of the program, all employees
of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, were presented
with their certificates by AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Vice-President
Lynne Gingras. Local 046 secretary Shauna Warrilow (above left)
poses for a photograph with NA grad Renata Jablonski.
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Members of the Local 095 Council, representing general
support service employees of the Calgary Health Region, gathered
at AUPE’s Calgary Regional Office on Nov. 27. |
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Graduates of a fast-track Nursing Attendant program
created by NorQuest College and the Nightingale Academy at the
suggestion of AUPE were honoured Nov. 25 for receiving their NA
certification. Many of the 18 graduates of the program, all employees
of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, were presented
with their certificates by AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Vice-President
Lynne Gingras. |
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The AUPE Women’s Committee presented a cheque
for $21, 458.46 to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Northern
Alberta/NWT division, during a ceremony held at AUPE Headquarters
in Edmonton on Nov. 24. The committee’s incredible accomplishment
was the direct result of pledges made during the AUPE Idol competition
and Silent Auction, which were held at the 2004 Convention. Left
to right are: Dan MacLennan, AUPE President, Kelly Burns, Community
Relations Coordinator for the CBCF north region, Tricia Waddell,
Vice-Chair of CBCF Northern Alberta/NWT, Lynne Gingras, AUPE Vice-President
and Chair of the Women’s Committee and Susan Maruca, union
MSO and Women’s Committee member. |
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The University of Calgary Food Bank received a boost
from AUPE Local 052 members recently, in the form of funds totalling
more than $400 and food donations. Left to right: campus food bank
coordinator Olga Traczyk was presented with a cheque, which was
jointly raised from Local 052’s annual summer barbecue with
matching funds donated by AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton. Ray Domej,
Calgary Union Representative, Patricia Johnson, Local 052 Secretary
and Nancy Ritchie, Local 052 Provincial Executive Representative
were also on hand for the presentation. |
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University of Calgary and Southern Alberta Institute
of Technology students sent a message to the Alberta government
on the SAIT campus in Calgary Thursday. AUPE members should make
sure they vote too in today’s provincial general election. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Local 046 Chair
Gloria Surridge (left) chat with Alberta Liberal Leader Kevin Taft
and his wife, Jeanette Bowman, at a Nov. 16 ceremony held at Edmonton’s
Royal Alexandra Hospital to announce the naming of the Lois Hole
Hospital For Women. Click here
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Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel (left) chats with AUPE
President Dan MacLennan, Local 046 Chair Gloria Surridge and Local
054/006 Chapter Chair Jim Shelley, at a Nov. 16 ceremony held at
Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital to announce the naming
of the Lois Hole Hospital for Women. |
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Alberta Justice Minister Dave Hancock (left) talks
with AUPE President Dan MacLennan, Local 046 Chair Gloria Surridge
and Local 054/006 Chapter Chair Jim Shelley at a Nov. 16 ceremony
held to announce the naming of the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.
Construction of the new hospital will break ground in 2005, with
its official opening scheduled for 2008. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Local 054/006 Chair
Jim Shelley (background) chat with Alberta New Democrat Leader
Brian Mason, during a Nov. 16 ceremony held by Capital Health to
announce the naming of the Lois Hole Hospital for Women. The new
facility will open in 2008 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and
will enhance health services for women in the Capital Health region,
northern and central Alberta and Canada’s northwest. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan and members of Local
071/002 at Olds College listen during a forum attended by provincial
candidates from the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding at the college
on Nov. 9. |
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Members enrolled in the union’s Basic Union
Steward Course learned formal grievance- filing procedures, during
the second day of a two-day course, which was held Nov. 4-5 at
AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton. AUPE President Dan MacLennan embraced
an opportunity to introduce himself to some of the union’s
newest members. |
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Members of AUPE Local 095, representing Calgary Health
Region general support services employees, count ratification vote
ballots at union headquarters in Edmonton Nov. 9. From left to
right, Rose Wright, Shari McGlashing and Connie Quayle. |
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Members of the Good Sam Facilities Bargaining Committee
were hard at work Oct. 28 at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton, designing
proposals for upcoming negotiations with their employer. The committee
includes Julie Cromarty, of Stony Plain (foreground); Anne Fischer,
of Hinton; Rena Douglas, of Edmonton; Shirly Werbeck, of Beaumont;
Mavis Ricketts, of Edmonton; and Union Representative Val Luvaha. |
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With a provincial election scheduled to take place
on Nov. 22, members of the union’s Committee on Political
Action met at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Oct. 29 to discuss
strategy. |
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AUPE’s “Providing Quality Public Services” bus
benches are now sprouting up around Fort McMurray. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan proudly holds up a photograph
during the final day of the 2004 Convention, which illustrates
AUPE Convention Delegates numerically displaying their union's
growth in membership. The photograph was taken on an Edmonton ski
hill on Oct. 15. |
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Members of the GSS Capital Health Bargaining team
gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Oct. 25, in preparation
for Bill 27 bargaining with the employer scheduled to take place
Oct. 26-29. Some of the outstanding issues yet to be bargained
include layoff and recall, hours of work and job classification. |
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AUPE members have supported PSAC strikers throughout
Alberta, during their ongoing labour dispute with the federal government.
Striking PSAC workers in Grande Prairie were using AUPE’s
Regional Office in the northwestern Alberta city, as their strike
headquarters, prior to reaching a new collective agreement last
week. |
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A large crowd of AUPE members takes part in an information
picket at the downtown Edmonton campus of NorQuest College on Oct.
15. Click here for AUPE’s
most recent member update on contract negotiations with NorQuest. |
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Members from throughout the Edmonton Servicing Area
attended an Introduction to Health and Safety Course held at AUPE
Headquarters in Edmonton on Oct. 20. Union Representative Dennis
Malayko (foreground) instructed the course. |
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Bill Gibbons, AUPE Local 010 Secretary and Provincial
Executive representative, addresses the union’s convention
on Oct. 16.
Click here for more convention photos. |
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Edmonton mayor-elect Stephen Mandel dropped in on
AUPE’s annual convention three days before his election victory.
He’ shown here addressing AUPE convention delegates. Click
here for more convention photos. |
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AUPE convention delegates get off their buses and
join an information picket at NorQuest College on Oct. 15. |
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AUPE Convention Delegates graphically celebrate
their union's growth in membership on a ski hill in Edmonton,
Oct. 15.
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Second-place finishers 054/049, named after their
AUPE locals, perform at the union’s pre-convention ‘AUPE
Idol’ competition on Oct. 13. From left to right, Margaret
Heil, Mary Kehoe, Tonya Malo and Christine Sharp. Click
here for more AUPE Idol photos. |
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Members of the AUPE Women’s Committee were
busy Oct. 12 organizing a long list of impressive items for tonight’s
AUPE Idol Competition and Silent Auction. The talent show and auctions
will be held from 6:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the main convention ballroom
of the Delta Edmonton South Hotel. Money raised from the auctions
and raffle will be donated to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Alberta/NWT Chapter. |
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Members of the union’s Committee On Political
Action gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Oct. 6. Prioritizing
resolutions for the upcoming AUPE Convention was atop the committee’s
agenda. |
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Local 001/041 member Ann Frigault, seen here in the
barber’s chair, raised $1,200 for cancer research by agreeing
to have her head shaved with several other members during an event
held in Edmonton’s Manulife Building on Oct. 5.
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Local 001/041 member Ann Frigault, seen here in the
barber’s chair, raised $1,200 for cancer research by agreeing
to have her head shaved with several other members during an event
held in Edmonton’s Manulife Building on Oct. 5.
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here for story and photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan speaks to about 200
AUPE Local 071/011 members and their supporters who took part in
an information picket Oct. 4 to protest stalled negotiations at
the Edmonton college. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members of Local 046 Council held their thrice-annual
meeting at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Sept. 29. |
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Seniors listen to a speaker during AUPE’s Sept.
2 Grandparents Day picnic on the south lawn of the Alberta Legislature
Building in Edmonton. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE Vice-President Lynne Gingras speaks to union
members and guests as the Raging Grannies look on during AUPE’s
Sept. 2 Grandparents Day picnic on the south lawn of the Alberta
Legislature Building in Edmonton. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan speaks with union members
and guests during AUPE’s Sept. 2 Grandparents Day picnic on
the south lawn of the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. |
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Members of AUPE’s Committee on Political Action
held their regular meeting in Calgary Aug. 27. From left to right,
Edmonton-based Staff Advisor David Climenhaga, Don Westman, Local
003, Fort Saskatchewan; Cherelyn Stefaniszyn, Local 057/005, Blackfalds;
and Brad Smith, Local 050, St. Albert. |
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Members of the General Service Bargaining Committee
met at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Aug. 31. AUPE President
Dan MacLennan and Union Representative Jim Petrie speak to bargaining
representatives of the more than 19,000 direct employees of the
Alberta Government, who are preparing for upcoming negotiations
with the employer to be held Sept. 22-24. |
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Chairs of AUPE health care General Support Service
locals met at the Calgary Regional Office Aug. 27 to discuss bargaining
and other issues. |
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AUPE Local 003/012 Chapter Chair Darcy Karbeshewski
presents a cheque for $500 to Innisfail Town Councillor Jason Heistad
to help with his October re-election campaign. Heistad, 32, is a
resident of Innisfail and chair of AUPE Local 071/002, which represents
non-academic staff at Olds College. |
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AUPE’s Claresholm Area Council fired up the
barbecue and entertained approximately 100 union members and guests
in the Southern Alberta community on Aug. 25. Busy flipping burgers
were, left to right, Ron Bruyure, Carol Brockway and AUPE Executive
Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell. |
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University of Calgary employees enjoy the barbecue
put on for them by AUPE Local 052 on Tuesday, Aug. 24. Despite cool
and at-times drizzly weather, more than 1,100 AUPE members and guests
attended the annual barbecue. Click
here for more photos. |
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Richard Hough, left, Vice-Chair of the Local 003 Chapter
at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre, and Mike Rennich,
right, Chair of the local, present a $500 campaign donation from
the local to their colleague Don Westman, who serves as an alderman
in the City of Fort Saskatchewan. Westman, a Correctional Officer
at the Fort Saskatchewan facility and an active member of AUPE’s
Committee on Political Action, is running for re-election in October. |
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Members of AUPE's Young Activists' Committee met at
Headquarters in Edmonton on Aug. 20. Left to right, front row, are
Dana Vos, Scott Jones and Donna Schiffner, with Declan,a very young
activist. In the back row are AUPE Vice-President Kathie Milne,
Krista Koroluk, Jennifer O’Neill, AUPE President Dan MacLennan,
Melanie Roy and Coral Semeninuk. |
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More than 500 hungry Royal Alexandra Hospital members
attended a barbecue in the hospital’s Edmonton courtyard on
Aug. 19. AUPE President Dan MacLennan, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Ed Mardell and other AUPE staff also volunteered their time to make
the lunch-hour barbecue a success. For
more pics click here. |
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Members of Local 054 GSS Capital Health Bargaining
Committee gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Aug. 11.
The bargaining team was preparing for negotiations with the employer,
which were held August 12-13. Mediation was scheduled for Aug. 16-17.
One of the committee’s main priorities is the wages of seven
contracts, which now fall under the umbrella of 11 contracts that
are being merged as a result of Bill 27. Committee members seen
here in the front row, left to right are: Peter Teskey, Nancy Rakowski,
Cheryl Spasiuk and Bernie Hardy. Back row, left to right are: Colin
Carmichael, Greg Maruca, Bill Fleming and Jim Shelley |
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Barbecue season is in full swing in Alberta. AUPE
Local 045 and Local 095 cohosted several barbecues for their healthcare
members at Calgary hospitals last week. Shown here are workers from
Foothills Medical Centre. Local 045/095 thank all those who volunteered
their time to make the Calgary BBQ's a huge success. For
more pics click here. |
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Barbecue season is in full swing in Alberta. AUPE
Local 045 and Local 095 cohosted several barbecues for their healthcare
members at Calgary hospitals this week. Here, AUPE Vice-President
Kathie Milne and Executive Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell demonstrate
their burger-flipping skills for members at Rockyview Hospital on
Aug. 11. |
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Members of AUPE’s Occupational Health and Safety
Committee held their regularly scheduled meeting at union headquarters
in Edmonton on Aug. 11. AUPE Vice-President, Garnett Robinson (foreground),
is Chair of the committee. |
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Tim Falkiner, MSO, (left) and and Percy Ogden, Chair
of Chapter 005 and Treasurer of Local 056 (right) present a cheque
to Pat Toyata, Supervisor of the Salvation Army Food Bank in Grande
Prairie on Aug. 10. Members of AUPE Local 056/005 and Local 043/004
helped to raise more than $500 at a barbecue they hosted with the
UNA earlier this summer in Grande Prairie. The donation was doubled
to $1,000, as a result of a motion brought forth by AUPE’s
Provincial Executive. |
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Members of St. Michael’s Long-term Care Centre,
Local 047/016, held a bargaining session with the employer at AUPE
headquarters in Edmonton on Aug. 4-5. From left to right are: Marilynn
Tanguay, Union Representative Terry Agoto, Monica Siebels and Gwen
Williams. |
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Bargaining Committee members for Local 047/014, representing
121 employees of the Millwoods Care Centre, met at AUPE headquarters
in Edmonton on July 21 to prepare for negotiations with their employer,
scheduled to commence in mid-September. Union Representative Val
Luvaha (seen here) facilitated the meeting. |
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Larry Zawadiuk said he felt “extremely fortunate”
yesterday, after a car driven by an Edmonton man slammed through
his office window. Zawadiuk, a Children and Family Services Supervisor
with AUPE Local 006/014, had left his office only moments before
the accident occurred. Edmonton police have since charged the vehicle
operator with careless driving. |
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AUPE Headquarters staff held a Klondike Days breakfast,
hosted by the union’s Records Department, before work July
30 in the parking lot of union Headquarters in Edmonton. From left
to right, AUPE President Dan MacLennan, Records Clerk Heather Yuhasz
and Union representative Steve Nimchuk. |
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Members of the Tofield Area Council met for a picnic
and barbecue on the Tofield Fairgrounds on July 28. |
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Chinwe Okelu of Local 002 was one of more than1,000
AUPE members who attended the annual pancake breakfast July 26 on
the Alberta Legislature Grounds. Okelu today declared his intention
to run for Edmonton City Council in Ward 6 in the upcoming municipal
elections to be held Oct. 18 across the province. Click
here for information on AUPE’s support for members who run
for public office. |
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AUPE members demonstrate in 1980. Click
here for more on Edmonton Labour History Day. |
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Mailroom employees were busy on July 26 preparing
a number of items for mail out. Seen here are Kerri Panchyshyn (foreground)
and Gwen Harrison. |
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AUPE members from the Peace River Area Council, in
conjunction with the Peace Country Co-op, hosted their annual pancake
breakfast to kick off Peace River’s Annual Peace Fest on June
17. Click here for more photos |
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The Members Benefits Committee gathered at AUPE headquarters
in Edmonton on July 21. Committee Account Manager Jacque Toupin
(seen at left of photo) was on hand to help the committee review
applications for annual education bursaries. |
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Bargaining Committee members for Local 047, Chapter
14, representing 121 employees of the Millwoods Care Centre, met
at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on July 21 to begin addressing
members’ wishes for upcoming bargaining sessions with the
employer. The committee is scheduled to sit down with the employer
on Sept. 14, 15. Clockwise from left to right are: Bev Woodford,
Glenda Christensen and Carol Morgan. |
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Lethbridge Area Council held its twice-annual meeting
on July 14 at AUPE’s South Regional Office in Lethbridge,
Pictured here from left to right: Kathie Milne, AUPE Vice-President;
Hanna van der Lee, Area Council Secretary; and Rob May, Chair of
the Lethbridge Area Council. |
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Bargaining Committee members from Local 047, Chapter
023 gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton July 15 to proof contract
language from their forthcoming Collective Agreement. Left to right:
Cory Scaife, Vice-Chair of Local 047, Chapter 023, Terry Agoto,
Union Representative and Jacquie Nielsen, Chair of Local 047, Chapter
023.
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan toured several worksites
in and around Grande Prairie on July 12 and 13. MacLennan also took
time out for an interview with Big Country XX 93.1 FM radio, whose
offices are located directly above AUPE’s Grande Prairie Regional
Office.
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Staff of AUPE’s Mailroom were preparing the
Summer 2004 edition of Direct Impact for mailing on July 14 to all
members. Christina Misquitta (foreground) and Peggy Schrauwen are
pictured above. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan travelled to Grande Prairie
on July 12-13 to visit several worksites in and around the northwestern
Alberta city.
Along with Grande Prairie Region MSO Tim Falkiner, MacLennan travelled
to Spirit River, which is 78 kilometres north of GP; Beaverlodge,
which is 42 kilometres west of GP; and Hythe, 56 kilometres west
of town.
Above, MacLennan spends some time with AUPE Local 118, Chapter 006
members Corrina Wozny (yellow shirt), Norma Maxwell (white Shirt)
and Rhonda Yurchyshyn, who all work for the County of Saddle Hills
in Spirit River. |
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Members from throughout the Edmonton Servicing Region
gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton recently to participate
in a Basic Union Steward Course.
Jacqueline Nielsen (seen here) is a former Christian Labour Association
of Canada union member who recently voted to join AUPE. Nielsen
is President and Chair of Local 047, Chapter 23 at the Holyrood
Extended Care Facility in Edmonton. BUSC participants were shown
a viewing of the union’s new movie titled “What a Wonderful
Union.”
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Members of Local 054/001, representing General Support
Service employees at the University of Alberta Hospital, and members
of Local 046/001, representing Auxiliary Nursing Care employees
at the U of A Hospital, held their annual family BBQ in Edmonton’s
Emily Murphy Park June 25. Click
here for more photos. |
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Local 046 held its annual treasurers’ training
session at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on July 7. AUPE Executive
Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell, (right) and Local 046 treasurer,
Sandy Kyle, (foreground) discuss accounting procedures with workshop
participants.
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Local 046 held its annual treasurers’ training
session at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on July 7. AUPE Financial
Records Examiner, Lisa Lui-Bidwell, (foreground) and Local 046 treasurer,
Sandy Kyle, (not in photo) facilitated the meeting. AUPE Executive
Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell also participated in the meeting.
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Health care General Support Services local executive
members gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton recently to discuss
common issues with respect to individual worksites. Executive members
representing locals 054, 056, 057 and 095 discussed a variety of
issues including bargaining, member mobilization, classification,
the SRC local conference scheduled for October and the 2004 AUPE
Convention. Union Representative Mac McNaughton (background) also
took part in the meeting.
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The GSS Regional Bargaining team gathered at AUPE
headquarters in Edmonton recently. Representing Locals 056 and 057,
the team was preparing for bargaining dates with various employers
scheduled for July and August. |
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These AUPE members were among approximately 500 people
who attended the Edmonton Area Council’s 2004 picnic June
26 at BBQ acres. From left to right in red AUPE Volunteer Ts: Georgina
Clarke, Sandra Knecht, AEC Secretary Ann Frigault (foreground),
Erez Raz, Mike Rennich, Bev Hill, EAC Vice-Chair Nancy Briggs, Carol
Drennan, Blaine Ashmore and Christie McDonald.
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Members of the ANC Bargaining team gathered at AUPE
headquarters in Edmonton on June 18. The group was strategizing
for upcoming negotiations with the employer scheduled to take place
on June 29, 30 and July 12 and 13. |
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AUPE members from the Peace River area took part in
their AUPE Area Council’s golf tournament at the Creek gold
course on June 27. AUPE Union Representative Brian Randall thanks
all the golfers involved for kindly allowing his team to take the
first-place prize. |
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More than 50 members of the General Service Bargaining
Committee gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on June 24 to
participate in a two-day conference to prepare for upcoming negotiations
with the provincial government. AUPE Senior Manager Pam Kirkwood
opened the conference by welcoming members to the important meetings. |
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Close to 700 people, including AUPE President Dan
MacLennan, attended a BBQ hosted by two AUPE Chapters and the Grande
Prairie UNA Local last Friday in the courtyard of that city’s
hospital, the QE2. The event raised $500 for the Grande Prairie
food bank, which the union’s Provincial Executive voted to
match during its bi-monthly meeting held Saturday afternoon in GP. |
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Members of AUPE’s Provincial Executive travelled
to Grande Prairie last week for an open house at the union’s
new office. The PE also held its quarterly meeting in the northwestern
Alberta city. |
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Members of AUPE local 071/002, representing non-academic
Olds College employees, invited their riding’s political candidates
to a pre-election barbecue on June 16. From left to right: (back
row) Local member Glenn Fox, AUPE Vice-President Kathie Milne, MSO
Kathy Kadyk and Local Chair Jason Heistad. Middle row: Conservative
candidate Myron Thompson, Green candidate Chris Foote, Liberal candidate
Judy Stewart and local member Dan Lortie. Front row: Local members
Gloria Labbe and Allie Dubray with little Malan. Click
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AUPE President Dan Maclennan
speaks with union members during last weeken's Women's, Health and
Safety, and Anti-Privitization Conferences. For
more pics click here. |
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From left to right: Liberal
Opposition Leader Kevin Taft, New Democrat MLA Brian Mason and Canada
West Foundation economist Todd Hirsch during a discussion of the
problems and add merits of public-private partnerships during the
Anti-Privatization conference on Saturday, June12. |
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AUPE members put down their
pens and pencils Saturday evening to take part in Stress Busters,
a workshop that introduced participants to relaxation techniques
including massage, Tai Chi, reflexology, yoga and nutrition. The
workshop was one of several held during AUPE’s three-day conference
that focused on Anti-Privatization, Women’s issues in the
workplace and Health & Safety.
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Carla Woodrow, Local 057, Rayanne Studer, Local 044,
and Jules Noel, Local 057, Chapter 08 enjoyed a hair-raising experience
recently. The three AUPE members raised more than $2,500 by agreeing
to have their heads shaved in support of cancer research at the
Lacombe Community Health Care Centre on May 29. Their hair will
also be used to make wigs for cancer patients. For more pics click here. |
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Members of the Joint Provincial Government/AUPE Health
& Safety Committee met at union headquarters in Edmonton on
June 9. The joint H & S committee has been meeting quarterly
since the introduction of the Alberta Government’s Health
& Safety Program in 1977. The committee is in the process of
aligning itself with new Health & Safety Legislation and Codes,
while developing support mechanisms to meet standard requirements
and promote Workplace Health Programs. The group took a moment out
to pose for a photo. |
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Stewards from throughout the Edmonton Servicing Area
attended a one-day Contract Interpretation Course held at AUPE headquarters
in Edmonton on June 4. Education MSO Gil Laflamme and Labour Relations
MSO Lynn Gough (seen here on right side of photo) were instructors
for the course. |
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Members of AUPE’s Auxiliary Nursing Bargaining
Committee gathered at union headquarters in Edmonton recently in
preparation for upcoming bargaining sessions across the province.
The group, led by Union Representative Jim Petrie, took a moment
to pose for a photograph. |
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Fifteen AUPE members from the East Central Region
attended a Basic Union Stewards Course in Camrose on May 27-28.
Wayne Trimble, Union Rep for East Central Region, (seen here at
right of photo) and Gil Laflamme (not in photo) instructed the course.
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Jason Heistad, Chair of Olds College Local 071/Chapter
002, is running for re-election to the Innisfail Town Council. Jason’s
re-election campaign received a $300 boost from Local 050 recently.
Brad Smith, (photo-left) Treasurer for Local 050, presented the
$300 contribution to Jason on June 4 at AUPE headquarters. |
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Members of AUPE’s Education Sector Co-ordinating
Committee met with Alberta Learning Minister Lyle Oberg for an hour
and a half on June 1. From left to right: Dan MacLennan, AUPE President;
Steve Nimchuk, AUPE Union Representative; Rod Feland, NAIT; Ron
Whan, Vice-President; Tracey Quinton, Local 039; Oberg; Nancy Ritchie,
U of C; Diane Boyle, U of L; Dan Tilleman, U of C; Rob Irwin, Northern
Lakes College; and Bonnie Nahornick, Athabasca U. |
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The second athrax scare in three years at Edmonton’s
Brownlee Building put close to 500 AUPE members on security alert
and lockdown on May 28. Dangerous Goods emergency personnel eventually
determined the white powder found in a package dropped off to the
Crown Prosecutors office was not toxic. Police have since arrested
an 85-year-old man they believe was involved in dropping 28 suspicious
packages off at several buildings, including the Alberta Legislature,
Liberal MP Anne McLellan’s constituency office and the Brownlee
Building. |
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Members of the Multi-Auxiliary Nursing Bargaining
Committee gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on May 31 for
a strategy session. Union Rep Jim Petrie (foreground) participated
in the session. |
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Members from the Edmonton Service Area gathered at
AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on May 20 to participate in a Table
Officers course taught by Union Representative Val Luvaha and MSO
Susan Maruca. Click here for
more photos |
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AUPE members from Local 047, Continuing Care Separate
Employers North, held their AGM at union headquarters in Edmonton
on May 20. |
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AUPE members take part in the first AUPE union education
course offered in the new Grande Prairie Regional Office on May
14. Click here for a story
and more photos. |
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AUPE Local Council Executive 054 held its AGM at union
headquarters in Edmonton on May 17. Above right: Union Representative
Greg Maruca provides a negotiation update for the Local Council
Executive. |
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AUPE Union Representative Wayne Trimble, Local 071/004
Secretary Dorothy Othen and Local Bargaining Committee member Tracy
Eger-Zaharko during the ratification vote by local members Thursday
at the Lakeland College campus in Vermilion. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members of AUPE Local 043, Auxiliary Nursing Care
North, held their AGM at union headquarters in Edmonton on May 18.
President Dan MacLennan participated in part of the meeting. |
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Members of the former Continuing Care Employers Bargaining
Association gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on May 18
in preparation for upcoming bargaining sessions at several worksites
around the province. |
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AUPE held a Basic Union Steward Course in its Calgary
offices on May 14-15. Instructors Ray Domeij, JoAnne Kurtz and President
Dan MacLennan (back right) join course participants for a group
photo. |
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Members of AUPE’s Finance Committee met at union
Headquarters in Edmonton on May 14. |
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AUPE members took part in a Fighting Discipline and
Discharge course in Lethbridge on March 5. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton
on May 7 to participate in a Table Officers Course taught by MSOs
Susan Maruca and Valerie Luvaha. |
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AUPE members from across the Edmonton Servicing Area
gathered at the union’s Edmonton headquarters on May 6-7 to
take part in a Basic Union Steward Course instructed by MSOs Gil
Laflamme and Judy Mayer |
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AUPE members from throughout Central Alberta took
part in a discipline and Discharge course in Red Deer May 7. |
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As New Democrat MLA Brian Mason, left, speaks, Liberal
Opposition leader Kevin Taft listens during AUPE’s Education
Sector Conference in Jasper on May 8. Click
here for more photos. |
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As CBC Radio One host Don Hill looks on, Parkland
Institute Research Director Trevor Harrison addresses participants
in AUPE’s Education Sector Conference in Jasper May 7. Click
here for more information on the conference. |
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AUPE’s Executive Committee met in Red Deer on
May 4 and 5 — and members were on hand for the open house
at the union’s new Red Deer office. From left to right —
as Central Alberta snow fell — President Dan MacLennan, Vice-President
Lynne Gingras, Executive Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell and Vice-Presidents
Kathie Milne, Garnett Robinson and Ron Whan. Click here for more
photos. |
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AUPE’s elected Executive Committee held two
days of meetings in Red Deer May 4 and 5. From left to right, AUPE
President Dan MacLennan, Vice-President Kathie Milne, Vice-President
Lynne Gingras, Executive Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell, Vice-President
Garnett Robinson, and Vice-President Ron Whan. |
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Members of AUPE’s Anti-Privatization Committee
met in Red Deer April 30 to formulate strategies to address the
theat of privitization. Click
here for more photos |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan met with members of Local
071/004 at Lakeland College in Vermilion on April 29. Click
here for more photos. |
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Alberta Health Minister Gary Mar and AUPE President
Dan MacLennan speak during a College of Licensed Practical Nurses
of Alberta luncheon April 30 in Edmonton. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members held Day of Mourning ceremonies around the
province April 28 to pay tribute to workers killed on the job. At
AUPE headquarters in Edmonton, ATB Local 20, Chap 08 Chair Linda
Kneeshaw (right) and Local Secretary Cindy McFeeters pose with a
picture of Sylvia Vega and fiancé Earl Heeg. A teller with
ATB Financial in Calgary, Sylvia was killed last December when a
car driven by a Calgary man crashed through the bank’s wall
killing her instantly. For
more photos click here. |
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Calgary North Hill Conservative MLA Richard Magnus
speaks with Carol Carbol, a member of AUPE’s Committee on
Political Action, during AUPE’s Pre-Election Seminar, April
23 in Calgary. Click here
for more photos. |
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Dr. Kevin Taft, leader of the provincial Liberal Opposition,
addresses participants in AUPE’s Pre-Election Seminar in Calgary
April 23. Representatives of all major Alberta political parties
spoke to the seminar. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan took part in the Olds
College 2004 Gala — Combines and Tractors Event — in
Olds on April 16. From left to right, Local 071/002 members Glen
Fox and Gloria Labbie, Local 071/002 Chair Jason Heistad, an Alberta
Beef spokeswoman and MacLennan. Local 071/002 represents non-academic
employees of Olds College. Click
here for another photo from the event. |
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AUPE Union Representative Brian Randall, Local 003/003
Chapter Chair Bill Brown present member Heinz Klaus with a 30-year
service pin at the Peace River area joint AGM on March 31. Klaus
also received a leather AUPE jacket — a door prize that he
coincidentally won during the AGM. About 160 members attended the
event. |
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Alberta New Democrat MLA Brian Mason took part in
AUPE’s first-ever Pre-Election Seminar held April 16 at the
union’s Edmonton headquarters. Mason and several other speakers
addressed a packed conference room filled with AUPE members interested
in participating in the political process. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan presented long-service
pins to union members at the joint annual general meeting in Red
Deer on April 14. From left to right, MacLennan; Hilda MacKay, Local
001; Marlene Belich, Local 006; Beverly Lassesen, Local 010/005;
Annette Gallant, Local 009; Kathleen Dubchak and Tarry Rasmussen-Dixon,
Local 010/005; and Bev Hill, Local 044. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members of Bargaining Committees for ANC Locals 43,
44 and 46 gathered at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on April 5,
to begin strategizing for upcoming bargaining sessions with the
employer. Bargaining is continuing on April 19. |
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Chairs from AUPE Locals 1 through 12 gathered at union
headquarters in Edmonton on April 13 in preparation for an upcoming
Sectoral Conference. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan awards long-service pins
to members at the joint Annual General Meeting held in Camrose April
7. Click here for more photos. |
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Members of the General Support Services Regional Bargaining
Committee held their third meeting in preparation for bargaining,
scheduled to begin May 18-19 in Edmonton. The committee, which represents
members from Regional Health authorities 4,5,7 and 8, is working
hard to achieve a region-wide collective agreement, as stipulated
in Bill 27. Jim Smith in foreground. |
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MSO Crystal Norton is excited about working in AUPE’s
new south-side office. The office — located in the College
Plaza building at 8215 – 112th Street — is staffed by
three Membership Services Officers whose aim is to provide better
service to the large number of AUPE members who work in the area. |
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AUPE Membership Services Officer Kathy Kadyk speaks
to participants in a Basic Union Stewards Course held in Red Deer
on April 1 and 2. Click here for
more photos. |
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Mail-in ballots from members of AUPE Local 059/001
at AADAC workplaces throughout Alberta were counted on April 1 at
union headquarters in Edmonton. Staff Negotiator Steve Nimchuk and
Bargaining Committee members Ingrid Nijssen (centre) and Wendy Fothergill
tabulate votes April 1 at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton. |
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The Capital Health Region General Support Service
bargaining committee met March 31 at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton
to strategize for upcoming bargaining sessions with management.
Click here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan and Local 003 Chair Mike
Rennich spoke to reporters at the Alberta Legislature March 30 about
AUPE’s reaction to the report of the MLA Committee on Correctional
Services. Click here for more
photos. |
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Twenty-six AUPE members from the health care sector
took part in a Basic Union Stewards Course in Calgary on March 25.
Click here for more photos. |
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Members of the AUPE General Service Bargaining Committee
counted ballots Friday at AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton. AUPE members
employed directly by the provincial government voted to ratify a
2004 wage offer of 3.5 per cent from the Alberta government. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan is interviewed by the
Canadian Press and the Edmonton Journal immediately after the presentation
of the Alberta budget at the Legislature on March 24. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE welcomes a group of approximately 40 Independent
Living Support Workers, employees of the Capital Health Region.
The ILS Workers, who recently joined AUPE, assist mentally and physically
handicapped people with banking, shopping, cooking and other life
skills. They met at AUPE Headquarters on March 23. |
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Members of the AUPE Regional General Support Service
Bargaining Committee met at AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton on March
16. Click here for more photos. |
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Members of the AUPE Local 095 Bargaining Committee,
representing General Support Service employees of the Calgary Health
Region, met at union headquarters on March 16. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE’s Edmonton City Centre Office has now opened
in First Edmonton Place. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE members from throughout Central Alberta took
part in a Basic Union Steward Course in Red Deer on March 11 and
12. Click here for more photos. |
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AUPE Local 071/002 members Patti Bauer and Shelly
Watt, both employees of Olds College, show the door prizes they
won during the Olds Area Council’s annual Family Fun Swim
on March 14. Click
here for more photos from the event. |
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Representatives of AUPE Auxiliary Nursing Care locals
from throughout Alberta met at union Headquarters in Edmonton Feb.
12 and 13 to prepare for bargaining with the province’s health
regions. |
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AUPE Executive Secretary-Treasurer Ed Mardell joined
numerous members of AUPE at the information picket held March 11
in Edmonton by members of the Canadian Auto Workers union on strike
against the Canadian National Railway. Click
here for more photos. |
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Local 005 Council Meeting was held at Edmonton HQ
on February 27, 2004. Doug Gamble was recognized by council and
AUPE. |
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The Council of AUPE Local 056 met at union Headquarters
in Edmonton on March 5. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE members took part in a Fighting Discipline and
Discharge course in Lethbridge on March 5. Click
here for more photos. |
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Union activists Patricia White, an AUPE Local 045
Chapter Chair, Shauna Warrilow, Local 046 Chapter Chair, and Tracey
Quinton, Local 039 Vice-Chair, were honoured during an International
Women’s Day ceremony at AUPE Headquarters in Edmonton March
8. Click here for more photos and details. Click
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AUPE’s Young Activists Committee met at union
Headquarters in Edmonton March 5. From left to right, front row:
Jennifer O’Neill, Local 054/001, Edmonton; Donna Schiffner,
Local 050/002, Stettler; Melanie Roy, Local 009/001, Calgary; Donna
Vos, Local 044/007, Bow Island; Krista Koroluk, Local 043/008, Lamont.
Back row: Sandra Kasowski, AUPE Staff; Kathie Milne, AUPE Vice-President
and Youth Committee Chair; Scott Jones, Local 052/001, Calgary.
Click here for more photos
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Members of the AUPE Local 043 Council met at union
Headquarters in Edmonton Feb. 12. |
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Members of the Capital Health Region General Support
Services Bargaining Committee met at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton
on March 3 |
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AUPE members participate at
AUPE's Advanced Labour School held in Jasper. Click
here for more pictures. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan
speaks to union members from the health care sector at union Headquarters
in Edmonton Feb. 10. |
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Literacy consultant Nancy Steel speaks to AUPE health
sector members Feb. 10 at union Headquarters on the role of unions
in promoting adult literacy. Click
here for more photos.
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan speaks with Local 071/002
Chair Jason Heistad at Olds College in a scene from an AUPE training
video being filmed at various locations. Click
here for more scenes from the video. |
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New AUPE health sector members took part
in an Introduction to AUPE course at union Headquarters in Edmonton
on Feb. 11. |
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Athabasca University Professor Winston
Gereluk speaks to representatives of AUPE health care locals about
the work of the Alberta Labour History Institute at union Headquarters
on Jan. 9. Click
here for more photos.
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AUPE Mailroom employee Tracie Affleck
sends copies of Direct Impact through the union’s new addressing
machine. For more photos of the Impact mail-out, click
here. |
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Participants in an AUPE Basic Union Steward
Course study hard during a session on Jan. 29 at union Headquarters
in Edmonton. Click here for more
photos. |
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AUPE Membership Services Officer Gil Laflamme
speaks to new AUPE health care members during an orientation workshop
Jan. 27 in Red Deer. Click here
for more photos. |
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Kevin Shaigec, Chief Executive of Morgex
Insurance, gives a presentation on insurance-related matters to
members of AUPE’s Provincial Executive Feb. 7 in Calgary. Click
here for more photos. |
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Construction continues on AUPE’s
new downtown satellite office on the fifth floor of First Edmonton
Place. Click here for
more photos. |
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Dialysis Assistants from AUPE Local 046
Chapter 001 met at union Headquarters in Edmonton on Jan. 25. |
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Members of the AUPE Local 002 Council
met at union headquarters in Edmonton on Saturday, Jan. 24. Local
002 represents direct employees of the provincial government who
work in administrative and program services. |
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The AUPE Local 046 Council met at union
Headquarters in Edmonton on Jan. 20. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members of the Good Sam Community Group
bargaining team met at AUPE headquarters in Edmonton on Jan. 19.
From left to right: Committee Chair Lizzamarie Fernandes, Neil Redman,
AUPE membership Services Officer Crystal Norton, Elena Solonynko,
and AUPE Union Representative Jim Petrie. |
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AUPE Labour Relations Manager Ron Hodgins
speaks to members of Local 054/007 at their inaugural meeting at
union Headquarters in Edmonton Jan. 28. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE President Dan MacLennan swears in
the executive of Local 057/004, which held its inaugural meeting
at Red Deer Regional Hospital on the evening of Jan. 15. |
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AUPE vice-President Kathie Milne speaks
to participants in an orientation workshop for new members that
took place on Jan. 15 in Grande Prairie. |
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New AUPE members from the health care
sector took part in another orientation workshop at union Headquarters
in Edmonton Jan. 22. Click
here for more photos. |
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Heather Crowe with AUPE President Dan
MacLennan at a news conference in Calgary Wednesday where she asked
provincial health ministers to implement non smoking legislation
for all Canadian workplaces. Crowe has been diagnosed with lung
cancer from second hand smoke she inhaled while working in the restaurant
industry over the past 40 years. For
more information click here |
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Heather Crowe, talks to members of Local
03 along with AUPE President Dan MacLennan at a news conference
in Calgary, Wednesday where she is demanding Provincial Health Ministers
to implement non smoking legislation in the workforce. She had been
diagnosed with lung cancer from second hand smoke she took in while
working in the restaurant industry for the past 40 years. Photo
by Dave Olecko For
more information click here |
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CEP Local 1900 A-Channel Unit Chair Adrian
Pearce accepts a cheque from AUPE Local 046 member Leona Hrabec
as Local 046/008 Chair and Council Rep Gloria Surridge looks on.
Click here for
more details and additional photos. |
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Members of AUPE’s Anti-Privatization
Committee met at Headquarters in Edmonton on Jan. 16. From left
to right: AUPE Staff Advisor Aaron Mireau, former committee Chair
Peggy Stewart, current Chair and AUPE Vice-President Ron Whan (Local
071/001, Lethbridge), Marilyn Jones (Local 044/003, Medicine Hat),
Tonya Malo (Local 054/001, Edmonton) and Darcy Karbeshewski (Local
003, Red Deer). |
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The AUPE Local 003 Council met at union
Headquarters in Edmonton Jan. 16. Click
here for more photos. |
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AUPE’s Committee on Political Action
met at union Headquarters in Edmonton Jan. 15. From left to right,
former COPA Chair Peggy Stewart, Jason Heistad (Local 071/002),
AUPE President Dan MacLennan, Guy Quenneville (Local 046), Julian
Ross (Local 095), Brad Smith (Local 050), Carol Carbol (Local 046),
Don Westman (Local 003) and COPA Chair and AUPE Vice-President Ron
Whan. Click here for more photos. |
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More than 100 members of AUPE Local 039
employed by the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary
and their supporters took part in a noon-hour information picket
Jan. 14 to back their bargaining committee and show their displeasure
with the impasse in negotiations with the Calgary post-secondary
institution. Click here for more
photos. |
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New AUPE members from the Health Care
Sector take part in an orientation session in Calgary on Jan. 13.
Click here for more photos. |
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AUPE Mailroom clerk Dawn Brady gets a
handle Jan. 12 on new printing technology being installed at union
headquarters in Edmonton. The systems will allow AUPE to provide
better quality printing services more quickly to AUPE locals. |
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Chairs of AUPE’s Education Sector
locals met at union headquarters in Edmonton Jan. 9. From left to
right: Local 069 Chair Jerry Nolan, from Athabasca University; Vice-President
Ron Whan, a member of Local 071/001 at Lethbridge Community College;
Local 052 Chair Dan Tilleman, from the University of Calgary; and
Local 071 Chair Rob Irwin from Northern Lakes College in Slave Lake. |
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AUPE Membership Services Officer Gil Laflamme
speaks to an Introduction to AUPE class at union Headquarters in
Edmonton Jan. 8. The one-day course was organized by AUPE’s
Education Sector for some of the hundreds of health care sector
members who have recently joined the union. Click
here for more photos. |
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Members of AUPE’s standing committees
from throughout Alberta and their union staff advisors met for an
orientation session in Edmonton Dec. 5 |
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