{"id":298388,"date":"2025-11-21T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:31:17","slug":"alberta-health-services-and-aupe-hospital-workers-back-at-table-with-strike-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298388\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Health Services and AUPE hospital workers back at table with strike looming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The union representing 16,000 Alberta hospital workers has returned to the bargaining table with the province\u2019s health-care delivery agency ahead of a weekend deadline for members to strike.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alberta-union-of-provincial-employees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Union of Provincial Employees<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/aupe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AUPE<\/a>, says in an email that <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alberta-health-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Health Services<\/a> invited the union back to the table for mediation and that it is meeting with them Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Marisa Breeze, a spokeswoman for Alberta\u2019s finance minister, confirms that the two parties are back at the table.<\/p>\n<p>The AUPE gave strike notice Wednesday to AHS after bargaining fell apart over wages.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Alberta hospital workers represented by AUPE serve strike notice, picketing begins this weekend'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NN_AUPE_STRIKE_NOTICE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:16<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlberta hospital workers represented by AUPE serve strike notice, picketing begins this weekend\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Job action is to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, with pickets outside major hospitals across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the AUPE website says that after it served strike notice, the health agency invited it back to the table, and that it is \u201ceager to see the employer\u2019s new offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no guarantees here. We would love to reach an agreement at the table, but we will also not accept an offer that does not meet your needs. If the employer\u2019s new offer is not satisfactory, we will go on strike as planned,\u201d the union\u2019s statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11534934\/dolly-parton-health-update-video\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763764277_997_Dolly-Parton-Rock-Hall-responds.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDolly Parton shares \u2018health challenges\u2019 after missing Dollywood event\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11535099\/trump-military-democrats-illegal-orders-death\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763764277_661_eb9461d9e87de3e0e78989ea7103d8f33281e3eec8008c1889f2add3e7e54aa8_8c1d08.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump says telling military to refuse illegal orders \u2018punishable by death\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statement said the union would share an update with members as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The workers include licensed practical nurses and health-care aides.<\/p>\n<p>The union has said about 78 per cent of union members are essential workers, meaning not all would legally be permitted to strike, so they would rotate shifts on picket lines.<\/p>\n<p>Contract talks have been ongoing since March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The union said there\u2019s a wage gap of about nine per cent between what the government last offered and what workers are demanding. The province last offered a 12 per cent wage increase over four years.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nate Horner said in a statement Wednesday that the AUPE was offered a \u201cfair and reasonable deal that was highly competitive with the other provinces across Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Horner said AHS has contingency plans in place in case of a strike.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union representing 16,000 Alberta hospital workers has returned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[17225,133055,133056,49,48,84,392,714],"class_list":["post-298388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-alberta-health-services","tag-alberta-union-of-provincial-employees","tag-aupe","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}