UNA Local 1 (Peter Lougheed Centre)

01/30/2025

01/27/2025

01/27/2025

January 25, 2025
UNA Rally
Union Strong 💪🏽

01/26/2025

01/24/2025

Tomorrow!

01/21/2025

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01/16/2025

Let's make some noise!! 🔊

01/13/2025

01/10/2025

⚠ United Nurses of Alberta is calling on the Government of Alberta to include nurses in presumptive coverage by the Workers’ Compensation Board for psychological injuries related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other traumatic mental health injuries.

Through the nature of their work, nurses are routinely exposed to traumatic events in the workplace. Nurses should not be forced to wait for – or be denied – access to Workers’ Compensation benefits after experiencing traumatic events while on the job.

Making this change to the Workers’ Compensation Act for nurses would presume that a confirmed psychological or psychiatric injury happened because of an incident at work. This coverage is already extended to other first responders such as police, firefighters, emergency medical workers, dispatchers, and corrections officers.

The only obvious difference is that the professions that receive presumptive coverage are dominated by men, while in the nursing profession a majority of practitioners are women. This is discriminatory and unfair.

UNA believes that this coverage should be extended to all nurses who hold a practice permit or are registered with a college of a regulated profession under the Health Professions Act.

If the Workers’ Compensation Act is changed, nurses will have access to Workers’ Compensation programs and treatment initiatives that will assist them in their recovery and get them back in to the health care workforce faster.

✅ Tell Alberta MLA's to include nurses in presumptive coverage for psychological injuries: https://www.una.ca/1611/nurses-should-be-included-in-presumptive-coverage-for-psychological-injuries

01/10/2025

"Covenant Health is spending nearly $110 an hour per nurse to obtain registered nurses from private, for-profit staffing agencies, more than double the hourly wages of unionized nurses earning the highest possible hourly wage, according to figures provided by the province’s Catholic health-care body.

These figures reveal that from April 2022 to April 2025, Covenant is projected to have spent more than $20 million on private nursing contracts, bringing the total known projected public health-care spending on private nursing agencies in Alberta to nearly $350 million since the 2022/23 fiscal year."

Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway previously told the Report that private nursing contracts are intended to fill “those hard-to-fill positions in northern and remote areas,” so their use in major cities reflects a broader problem with health-care worker retention and recruitment.

(Report by Jeremy Appel at The Progress Report)

01/09/2025

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