Locals: 054, 056, 057, 058, 095, and Lamont Health Care Centre GSS
Alberta Health Services and Lamont Healthcare Centre have cancelled the May 19, 27, and 28, 2021 dates for bargaining meetings.
This act of cowardice comes just weeks after AHS informed us they are “contemplating” a contracting-out initiative to axe hundreds of ancillary retail food services jobs and would be handing all in-house laundry services to K-Bro, killing hundreds of more jobs.
It’s hypocritical and heartless for AHS to offer time to discuss all the jobs they want to kill, while claiming they don’t have the resources to bargain. For AHS to continue its privatization crusade, while disregarding their legal responsibility to collectively bargain, is an insult.
Your bargaining committee is working to fulfill your desire to resume bargaining. We rejected the memorandum of understanding which would have further delayed bargaining, and we set new bargaining dates. Now, AHS is backing out of their May bargaining dates.
Your bargaining committee is pushing AHS to remember that collective bargaining builds productive relationships with staff far better than scheming to kill our jobs.
We’re in the third wave of an unprecedented pandemic and infection rates are the worst they’ve ever been. While we’re on the front lines fighting this virus, we deserve respect from our employer. If employers and governments are going to call us “heroes,” they should act like they mean it.
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Please talk to your negotiating team members or AUPE resource staff if you have any questions. Contact your Local’s negotiating representatives to see how you can get involved and make sure you and your co-workers are informed. We’re here to support you.
AHS GSS Negotiating Team
Local 054
Julie Woodford - juliew.chp006@gmail.com
Charity Hill (A) - charity.johanson@gmail.com
Local 056
Tammy Lanktree – local56.bargaining@gmail.com
Local 057
Darren Graham - chairlocal057@aupe.ca
Wendy Kicia (A) - wendykicia@hotmail.com
Local 058
Anton Schindler - waterdude69@gmail.com
Dave Ibach (A) - d1322j@gmail.com
Local 095
Stacey Ross - stacey.aupe@gmail.com
Dusan Milutinovic (A) - dusan.aupe@yahoo.com
Lamont Health Care Centre GSS
Jessica Kroeker - jessicarayne@hotmail.com
Carol Palichuk - carolpalichuk@hotmail.com
AUPE Resource Staff for AHS GSS
Chris Dickson, Lead Negotiator - c.dickson@aupe.org
Jason Rattray, Negotiator - j.rattray@aupe.org
Farid Iskandar, Organizer - f.iskandar@aupe.org
Kate Jacobson, Organizer - k.jacobson@aupe.org
Darcy Thiessen, Organizer – d.thiessen@aupe.org
Alexander Delorme, Communications - a.delorme@aupe.org