{"id":623811,"date":"2026-04-23T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:16:12","slug":"hundreds-of-edmonton-workers-flock-to-join-aupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623811\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Edmonton workers flock to join AUPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 Hundreds of workers at three retirement communities in Edmonton have joined the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese workers approached us because they were concerned about their jobs, their working conditions, and the quality of care provided to residents,\u201d says AUPE Vice-President Bobby-Joe Borodey. \u201cThey knew their best protection was to belong to Western Canada\u2019s largest union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AUPE\u2019s newest 225 members work at three Christenson sites in Edmonton:<\/p>\n<p>Devonshire Village at 1728 Rabbit Hill Road;Village at Westmount at 13317-115 Avenue; andGlastonbury Village at 1585 Glastonbury Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>Staff include Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) and Health Care Aides (HCAs), as well as support workers in housekeeping and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>AUPE represents about 62,000 workers in the health-care sector, many working in continuing care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents in retirement and continuing-care facilities become like second families to workers. They were anxious about their jobs but also wanted to ensure that they will be able to keep providing the highest quality of care,\u201d says Borodey.<\/p>\n<p>Work will begin soon on negotiating first contracts for these new members.<\/p>\n<p>-30-\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Hundreds of workers at three retirement communities in Edmonton have joined the Alberta Union of Provincial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-623811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623811","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=623811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}