Meet your Negotiating Team
Meet the AUPE members of Good Samaritan Society Continuing Care. We’ve been elected to negotiate a Collective Agreement on behalf of our 1,500 colleagues who provide health and community care services to aging Albertans across the province.
The membership showed up for town hall meetings and numerous rallies, and swiftly organized a vote to ratify the mediator’s recommendations across the province, while the employer dragged its feet. We will continue to make gains—and to make our voices heard.
“We are barely making over minimum wage, well below the cost of living for an individual. We need to feel valued in our workplace. We also need to go in strong and stay strong together to stop our government from trying to privatize our health care.”
- Vanessa, Good Samaritan Society
A historic year of bargaining
The Good Samaritan Society is one of 112 bargaining units representing nearly 15,000 AUPE members in private and not-for-profit continuing care centres across the province.
Continuing care in Alberta has been understaffed and underfunded for too long. Yet, instead of focusing on investing in the recruitment and retention of health care workers, the Alberta government has introduced regulations that make it easier for private, for-profit operators to increase fees and cut standards of care.
It’s time for health workers and the patients they care for to get the support they deserve.
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We know there’s a lot at stake and we’re going to fight to make some serious gains. We need you to get involved now!
Your input is a key part of the bargaining process.
For example, we need your expertise to negotiate a strong Essential Services Agreement!
Essential services legislation allows public sector workers to go on strike. But they also require some staff to continue working through a strike to provide ‘essential’ services.
These rules can limit our ability to strike. With your help, we can negotiate essential services agreements that protect Albertans while allowing us to strike effectively.
By sharing your experience at the worksite, you help ensure we can strike effectively—if we have to—during negotiations.
Pledge to Wear Red!
AUPE members from all sectors across the province are wearing red to work to show support for their negotiating teams and each other.
Wearing red is a powerful collective action. The more members who wear red, the stronger the message we send to our employers. We are strong, determined, and willing to fight for the demands we make at the bargaining table.