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Following the closures of dozens of beds in mainly rural areas throughout Alberta due to staff shortages, reports that 18 patient-spaces have closed at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital surfaced late Thursday.
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At the same time, nurses and health-care support workers are voicing anger after saying they’ve been asked by Alberta Health Services to accept wage cuts of three and four per cent, respectively.
“Everyone knows Premier (Jason) Kenney and Health Minister Shandro have no respect for front-line health-care workers, even after everything they’ve done for us during the pandemic, and here we see AHS following their orders to add insult to injury,” said Susan Slade, vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which represents support staff.
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The United Nurses of Alberta, with more than 30,000 members, is a much more powerful body than the doctor’s group, the Alberta Medical Association.
And many nurses are talking about a strike.
“I’m not raising that word it’s the members who are raising it,” says UNA president Heather Smith.
“The mood is definitely very tense. And last week does not in any way help to de-escalate an exhausted workforce who already feel under-appreciated and disrespected.”
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