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Heavy rain didn\u2019t deter Alberta Union for Provincial Employees (AUPE) from gathering in Calgary.<\/p>\n
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AUPE members rallied outside three Carewest health-care<\/a> centers in Calgary<\/a>, hoping to sign a new contract with the province to secure better pay and working conditions.<\/p>\n The union says it has been without a contract for over a year, but there aren\u2019t the only issues its members face.<\/p>\n \u201cNot having a contract doesn\u2019t improve the working conditions,\u201d says Sandra Azocar, AUPE president,<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t address the issues that we\u2019re bringing attention to, which are short-staffing, chronic short-staffing, that impacts the level of care.\u201d.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tAUPE members in Calgary rally for better working conditions.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Earlier this month, the union launched its Continuing Care Campaign, highlighting what it calls a crisis in seniors care.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cWe have members that have to have two or three jobs just to make ends meet and then come to work in this facility\u201d Azocar says.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n \u201cThere needs to be some recognition of the value of the work that they do. This is important work. It\u2019s essential work so that seniors can get the care that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n The union says it hopes to achieve parity to its Edmonton contracts for its members in Calgary.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are ready to bargain contracts that are similar to the contracts that our members received at Capitol Care in Edmonton, which is a similar facility,\u201d Azocar adds.<\/p>\n The union is expected to head to the bargaining table on Monday, June 8.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Heavy rain didn\u2019t deter Alberta Union for Provincial Employees (AUPE)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[133056,49,2798,48,5432,44,257347],"class_list":["post-708515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-aupe","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-health-care","tag-news","tag-union-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708515","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=708515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\")
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