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12/22/2025

Happy Holidays from United Nurses of Alberta - www.unalocal115.org/blog/2025/12/19/happy-holidays-from-united-nurses-of-alberta

The holidays are a time to reflect on what caring truly means. Care is close to home, puts people before profits and protects public health care for everyone. It’s more than kindness — it’s action. It’s about building capacity — more beds, more staff, a public health care system to

12/21/2025

"While everyone sleeps" is the winner of the Best Poem in UNA's First Annual Winter Holiday Jingle Challenge. The poem was written by United Nurses of Alberta, Local 196's Hanna Black and was inspired by Stella Ajuzieogu. It was narrated by the Local 196 executive members.

📲 Listen to all the winning entries: https://www.una.ca/1734/do-nurses-have-a-seasonal-song-in-their-hearts-you-bet-they-do-

12/21/2025

UNA Mental Health Caucus

12/21/2025

http://www.unalocal115.org/blog/2025/12/19/arbitrators-ruling-resolves-una-grievance-over-pay-rate-differences-affecting-long-service-public-health-care-employees

Grievances filed by United Nurses of Alberta that arose from differences between rates of pay for some employees in their new multi-employer collective agreement and the rates actually paid by major Alberta public health care employers have been resolved by an arbitrator.    The de

12/20/2025

🪨🎁 What will get you on this year's naughty and nice list?

12/19/2025

http://www.unalocal115.org/blog/2025/12/18/payroll-transfers-for-acute-care-alberta-primary-care-alberta-and-recovery-alberta-happening-on-december-22

Employees of Acute Care Alberta (ACA), Primary Care Alberta (PCA), and Recovery Alberta (RA) represented by United Nurses of Alberta will be transferred from the Alberta Health Services payroll system to the payroll of their new employer on December 22, 2025. Affected employees will note the fo

12/19/2025

http://www.unalocal115.org/blog/2025/12/18/do-nurses-have-a-seasonal-song-in-their-hearts-you-bet-they-do

We asked if nurses had a seasonal song in their hearts? UNA members answered: You bet! When United Nurses of Alberta said on December 3 it was looking for members who wanted to join the winter holiday fun with a short video, recorded song, or poem about nurses and nursing on a wi

12/19/2025

🕎 UNA wishes a Happy Hanukkah to Alberta nurses celebrating the Festival of Lights. As you celebrate this week with your family and friends, we hope this year brings blessings, happiness, and peace to you and your loved ones.

12/19/2025

🎶🎄❄️We asked if nurses had a seasonal song in their hearts? UNA members answered: You bet!

When United Nurses of Alberta said on December 3 it was looking for members who wanted to join the winter holiday fun with a short video, recorded song, or poem about nurses and nursing on a winter seasonal theme, members and their and locals from throughout Alberta rose to the challenge.

Time may have been tight, but the submissions from all over the province were so good that the first-annual Winter Holiday Jingle Challenge was born!

We’re pleased to announce winners and honourable mentions for members and locals who submitted jingles, songs and poems.

All winners and honourable mentions are listed below.

🎶 Best Jingle goes to Brenda Doran, Local 72, St. Michael’s Hospital, Lethbridge

🎶 Best Song to Amanda Charles, Local 31, Ponoka Hospital and Health Centre

🎶 Best Poem to Local 196’s Executive, Edmonton Community, written by Hanna Black, inspired by Stella Ajuzieogu

📲 Listen to the winning entries: https://www.una.ca/1734/do-nurses-have-a-seasonal-song-in-their-hearts-you-bet-they-do-

Honourable Mentions

Local 73 (Westlock Health Care Centre & Continuing Care)
Local 77 (George McDougall Memorial Health Centre - Smoky Lake)
Local 79 (Edmonton General Continuing Care Centre & Grey Nuns Community Hospital)
Local 211 (Calgary Community)
Local 216 (Dr. Cooke Extended Care Centre & Lloydminster Continuing Care)
Local 218 (David Thompson Health Region Community)
Local 219 (Shepherd's Care Eden House, Kensington & Millwoods/Allen Gray)
Board - Legislative Committee
Board - Advocacy and Engagement Committee

🙏🎶🎵 Thanks to all, and we look forward to next year’s contest!

12/18/2025

12/18/2025

Your Local 115 team wishes you a safe and happy holidays!

12/18/2025

Saturday December 20th at 11:00am

Postal workers from Calgary will rally outside the Calgary City Hall to protest Section 107 and 108 back-to-work orders. repeatedly been used to undermine workers Charter rights to use strike as a form of struggle to win our demands. This has led to this 13-month strike struggle for a new collective agreement. We are determined to continue our resistance to these measures taken by the Government and Canada Post. Worker’s rights must be respected!

We invite and welcome all workers facing similar use of Section 107 action against their successful struggles, including CUPE, Teachers and Teamster’s workers to join us in this rally on Saturday 20 December 2025. Together we will not be intimidated and will not allow such measures to deter us from victory.

The attacks on the post office and national public services are being intensified. Our resistance and solidarity must grow against each attack. There is no way that working people can allow the government and the employers to continue this assault on us without standing up and fighting back.

With agreements in principle on the table, management is intensifying the struggle against postal workers during this peak season to raking in profits. We must stand up to the bullying. It is obvious that they are not seeing a “new” contract as an end to intensified attacks on workers rights or their plans to privatize wide areas of the post office or increase governmental interference to justify austerity measures against working people. The attacks on the public post office and public services in general are ongoing and so is our resistance.

Join CUPW Calgary Local 710 and all other workers facing the abuse of Section 107 in this picket and mass workers rally to protest direct government encouraged interference and the resulting long delays in settling our struggles for just demands and improvements in our livelihood.