Dechant addresses LES participants
AUPE Executive Secretary-Treasurer Bill Dechant Feb. 27, addressed participants attending AUPE’s Sixth Annual Labour Education School in Jasper.
The faces of Labour School
A total of 260 members are attending the union’s Sixth Annual Labour Education School currently being held in Jasper.
AUPE members pleased by today’s announcement of new Remand Centre
EDMONTON – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees were pleased to learn today that the Government of Alberta will proceed with plans to build a new Edmonton Remand Centre to replace the current overcrowded and dangerous facility.
President Doug Knight welcomes nearly 260 participants to AUPE labour school in Jasper
JASPER – AUPE President Doug Knight welcomed nearly 260 participants to the union’s sixth annual Labour Education School Sunday evening, advising them to play an active role in their courses and to compare notes with one another about the challenges they face in their worksites.
260 to attend AUPE Labour Education School in Jasper
JASPER – More than 260 members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees will take part in the union’s sixth annual Labour Education School, starting tomorrow at the Jasper Park Lodge.
Local 049 donates funds for seriously injured Local 005 member
Local 049 Chair Mary Kehoe presents a cheque for close to $500 to AUPE President Doug Knight. The funds will be donated to Robert Anderson, a Local 005 forestry worker who was seriously injured last July during a helicopter crash.
AUPE complaint leads to ban on nicotine patches in provincial jails
EDMONTON – Thanks to an initiative by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, nicotine patches are about to be declared contraband in all provincial jails in Alberta.
Local 009 Council
Members of Local 009 Council held a regularly scheduled meeting recently, at AUPE’s Red Deer Regional Office.
Rise in workplace violence alarming, says AUPE health and safety representative
EDMONTON – A growing number of Albertans face violence in the workplace, a trend that is leaving rising casualties in its wake, says AUPE’s Occupational Heath and Safety Representative.
American Income Life donation
AUPE Vice-President Garnett Robinson, who also chairs the union’s Membership Services Committee (centre), recently received a scholarship donation of $5,000 from A.I.L. representatives Brett MacCannell (left) and Daryl Barnett.