AHE Redevelopment rally
AUPE President Guy Smith addresses about 300 labour leaders, politicians, activists, and supporters at a lunch-hour barbecue and rally on Apr. 30 to draw attention to the need to redevelop Alberta Hospital Edmonton. Redevelopment of the site is vital, he told the crowd, because without it, treatment of patients will suffer. “Without the certainty of the future,” he said, “how can we possibly continue to do the hard work that we do every day? We need that certainty of redevelopment. We need it now.”
Also addressing the crowd were Friends of Medicare Executive Director David Eggen, Alberta Hospital Edmonton psychiatrist Dr. Krista Leicht, United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith, Health Sciences Association of Alberta President Elisabeth Ballermann, and Chair of AUPE Local 046/012 Vaughan Patrick, representing Auxiliary Nursing Care employees of AHE.