Alberta nurses' union asking for 25% raise in 1 year

Alberta Health Services is cancelling some job interviews and making it more bureaucratic to hire health-care workers, just as the province's nurses union proposed a 25-per cent wage increase.Alberta nurses are proposing a one-year, 25-per cent wage hike to help keep the workers in the province and on the job.

"They've abused and ignored the system for many years and when you do that there needs to be a giant catch up in order to to set things straight again," Harrigan said. "Our proposal reflects our desire to address current workforce issues so we can ensure we have the people we need to provide consistent, high-quality care to Albertans," he said.Nurses are among the more than 100,000 Alberta health-care workers belonging to three unions that will see their contracts expire on March 31. Bargaining dates are scheduled with AHS.

"Additional measures are required to aggressively address our current deficit position before the end of the 2023/24 fiscal year," the Feb. 20 memo said.

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