Health Sciences Association of Alberta

The UCP’s latest anti-worker legislation, the Orwellian-named Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act (otherwise known as BIll 47), is another attempt by the UCP to roll Alberta back a couple decades when it comes to workers rights. These changes reduce costs for employers on the backs of workers, transfer even more power to the boss and will see workers face an even crueler world if they get sick or injured on the job. Highlights of what Bill 47 will mean for workers:... - You can now be laid off for getting injured or sick. - Your boss can now cut you off from your health benefits if you get injured or sick. - Makes it even harder to refuse unsafe work. - Less money for sick and injured workers.

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Patient advocacy groups are pushing back against a proposed Alberta Health Services program that would shift costs for certain medical treatments onto patients who would have to pay or use private insurance to cover the costs.

#HSAA members and staff at RAH picket - public sector unions are showing their solidarity! This is about protecting our public health care against cuts and privatization. This is about ALL of us! #AUPE #UNA #AFL #abpoli #abhealth www.AlbertaHealthMatters.ca

"The blame for any disruption to patient care that may occur today needs to land squarely at the feet of Jason Kenney." #IHeartPublicHeathCare #HSAA #abhealth #abpoli #ableg

"Edmonton HSAA supports AUPE workers who are standing up against Kenney’s health-care cuts that were heartlessly announced in the midst of this pandemic, says Mike Parker, President of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta representing 27,000 health-care professionals across the province. Health-care workers have been working tirelessly to keep Albertans safe and they have been rewarded with threats to their jobs by a government that is hell-bent on ripping apart ou...r public health-care system. The blame for any disruption to patient care that may occur today needs to land squarely at the feet of Jason Kenney and the UCP, Parker added. HSAA members will respect picket lines. It is the employer’s responsibility to safely get them into their workplaces. HSAA members will not do the work of other union members. HSAA is 27,000 health-care professionals dedicated to protecting the public health system and the vulnerable Albertans who rely on it.