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On Monday, Notley said the situation is only getting worse and issued a call to action for the government to address the closures. She argued the first step should be to walk back the province’s latest proposed collective agreement with nurses that would see a three per cent wage cut.
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“It is fundamentally dangerous. (The province) needs to come up with a plan to keep Alberta’s hospitals open and the first step of that is to abandon threats to cut wages of so many Albertans who work in them,” Notley said. “Our health-care heroes are burnt out and patients are arriving much sicker than before because their conditions have been left unaddressed for a year and a half.”