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Direct Impact

Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2020 Edition of Direct Impact

This year challenged working people like none other. While the UCP used COVID as cover to crush our rights and make life harder, front-line workers battled the virus head-on. As we faced immense personal and collective grief, AUPE members never stopped fighting for a fairer province. In this issue of DI, we explore what moves us. What motivates us. What we're confronted with. And what we’re doing for the bigger battles ahead.

Healthcare support workers are frontline workers

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We Are the Healthcare Frontline

Who’s keeping you alive? Us, the expert workers keeping your hospital running.

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Many hands are held together into a single first, with superimposed text that reads "Smash Fascism"

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Solidarity Means No Nazis

AUPE members show how and why labour must fight the far-right

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An image of the newly-constructed service building at the McCullough Centre, with text superimposed that reads "Save the McCullough Centre."

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The McCullough Centre Saves Lives. The UCP Wants to Close It.

Despite promising to invest in recovery communities, the UCP is bulldozing a proven path to healing.

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person behind bars

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Kenney's Making Crooks of Us All

But the evidence is stacking up against him.

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Feb 01, 2020

All pain, no gain

The government could create a public pharmacare plan. Instead, it’s switching medications, which could be painful for some of Alberta’s most chronically ill