Local 196 is seeking a creative, motivated, self-directed member to join our Local Communcation Commitee! Details below!
Click here for the Local 196 Communication Committee Roles & Responsibilities Document (Jan.2020)
“Doc Calm” – Bestselling Stress & Wellness Authority
Multi-talented David Posen, MD has been a successful international keynote speaker, author and seminar leader for more than two decades. As an authority on stress management, he delights audiences across North America with an interactive approach that never fails to captivate, motivate, entertain and inspire.
To really know David Posen, author, speaker, physician, athlete, musician and family man, imagine an adventurer who regularly stops to chat with people along his travels – to observe and, most of all, to listen and learn. There are talkers and there are listeners. David is both: an interesting talker and a keenly interested listener. As a speaker, David has enthralled and compelled corporate and professional audiences across North America. David’s ability to listen – to his patients, audiences, colleagues, friends and even himself – has resulted in three best selling, Always Change a Losing Game, Staying Afloat When The Water Gets Rough, which went into a second printing after only five weeks of its release in September 1998. His most recent work Is Work Killing You. David makes every keynote, conference address, convention workshop, or executive retreat a memorable experience. Befitting an adventurer, David worked on a research project in San Francisco before graduating from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1967. He then interned in Edmonton, Alberta and practiced in the Canadian Arctic and Jerusalem before settling in Oakville, Ontario in 1971. More than a decade into a highly successful family practice, David changed his game plan to focus on stress management and lifestyle counselling. Along the way, his buoyant approach to life’s challenges has helped countless people stay afloat! (https://www.nsb.com/speakers/david-posen/)
PAPER OR E-TICKET REQUIRED FOR ENTRY.
Fantasyland Hotel, 17700 87 Ave.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Doors/Cash Bar @ 17:30
Dinner @ 18:00
Speaker @ 19:15
This event is open to members & duespayers of
Local 196 only.
TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE.
Registration must be completed using a non-AHS email.
Click the Eventbrite link to register.
Registration Deadline is February 3, 2020.
PAPER OR E-TICKET REQUIRED FOR ENTRY.
Questions/Dietary requests? Please email Local196Education@una.ca
If you have registered and are no longer able to attend, please cancel your ticket via Eventbrite or email Local196Education@una.ca prior to the registration deadline.
Cancellation instructions and waitlist instructions are on the local website: https://local196una.ca/education-dinners/
UNA is conducting a ratification vote today, January 8, 2020 to vote on the negotiation proposals package passed at the 2019 Demand Setting Meeting.
Local 196 members are encouraged to vote at your home site – speak with your office rep for location and polling hours.
For members not able to vote at your home site, please go to the Local 196 Office between the hours of 0800-1700, located at:
11420 142 St.
Edmonton, AB
T5M 1V1
phone: 780-430-4616
***The negotiation package is CONFIDENTIAL and is not distributed electronically. A copy of the package will be available at each voting station to review***
Local 196 will be holding our Negotiating Proposals Information Meeting on January 6, 2020 at Fantasyland Hotel, West Edmonton Mall located at 17700 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB.
Dinner: 1730h
Meeting: 1800h
Please register for the meeting via DMS.
This will be a special meeting to discuss the Proposals Package adopted at the 2019 Demand Setting Meeting.
Local 196 has TWO draws for our membership – see details below. Enter via the “FORM” in DMS.
Local 196 Conference Funding for 2020
Deadline: February 3, 2020
Draw: February 10, 2020 at Local Education Dinner
(Additional draw for 2020 Funding) – as per Local 196 2019 AGM:
• One Office Rep/Committee member and one general member will be drawn to attend a labour affiliated conference such as (CFNU, AFL, CLC, CARNA AGM, CNA biennium conference) up to a maximum of $5000.00.
• To be eligible, Office Reps/Committee members/general members must have attended at least 2 Local meetings in the previous 12 months.
• All receipts for conference funding, including the confirmation of registration for the conference, shall be submitted to the Treasurer for reimbursement.
Link here–> https://dms.una.ca/forms/229
Local 196 Funding to attend AFL Mid-Term Forum
Deadline: February 3, 2020
Draw: February 10, 2020 at Local Education Dinner
• 10 general members will be drawn to attend Alberta Federation of Labour Mid-Term Forum in Edmonton April 17-18, 2020
• Funding to include: salary (LOA or expenses), lunch, mileage, parking
Link here–> https://dms.una.ca/forms/230
Local 196 will be holding our Negotiating Proposals Information Meeting on January 6, 2020 at Fantasyland Hotel, West Edmonton Mall located at 17700 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB.
Dinner: 1730h
Meeting: 1800h
Please register for the meeting via DMS.
This will be a special meeting to discuss the Proposals Package adopted at the 2019 Demand Setting Meeting.
Click the link below to view the December edition of Local 196’s e-newsletter:
Local 196 UNA – Newsletter December edition
The Local newsletter was sent via MailChimp with updated member contact information from Provincial UNA Office. It was sent to personal email addresses only. If you did not receive our newsletter, please email local196exec@una.ca to be added to our subscribers list. You don’t want to miss out!
Local 196 will be holding our Local Annual General Meeting on December 10, 2019 at Fantasyland Hotel, West Edmonton Mall located at 17700 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB.
Dinner: 1730h
Meeting: 1800h
Please register for the meeting via DMS.
Meeting to include:
– review of Local annual budget, policies & procedures, bylaws
– elections for: (all positions are 2 year terms)
Nomination deadline: December 3, 2019 @ 1630h
*Nominations must be faxed or emailed to contact info below*
f: 780-493-8579
email: local196exec@una.ca
Polling hours @ meeting: 1800h to 2030h
Nomination forms and Roles/Responsibilies Documents for interested committee members can be downloaded under the 'Resources' tab.
Reposted from una.ca
By United Nurses of Alberta November 29, 2019 11:30
“Hundreds of front-line Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses will lose their jobs in massive downsizing planned by Alberta Health Services, the public health care agency’s lead negotiator informed United Nurses of Alberta this morning.
In a meeting with UNA’s senior leadership called unexpectedly by AHS yesterday, Lead Negotiator Raelene Fitz said the plans to eliminate an “estimated” 500 full-time equivalent RN jobs over the next three years were being disclosed now in advance of bargaining for UNA’s 2020 Provincial Collective Agreement so that the union would have time to absorb the information and respond accordingly.
The elimination of that many RN and RPN FTEs, equivalent to over a million fewer hours of care, will mean more than 750 front-line Registered Nurses will be laid off, UNA President Heather Smith said immediately after the meeting.
“From the tone of what we were told, we believe this is only the first wave of layoffs affecting RNs represented by UNA,” Smith said. AHS officials were also scheduled to meet bargaining representatives from other health care unions today.
“There are also clear indications that AHS plans to shift many of the costs of health care onto Albertans who require treatment,” Smith said.
“Premier Jason Kenney and other members of the United Conservative Party promised repeatedly during last spring’s election campaigns that the cuts they planned would not touch front-line health care workers,” she said. “Participants at tomorrow’s UCP meeting in Calgary might want to ask the premier about why AHS is moving ahead with plans to break his promise and lay off front-line nurses.”
“We do not believe Albertans will support this plan, and they should tell the premier so,” Smith said.
“In light of the promises made by the government not to touch front-line health care workers, we will be asking for an immediate emergency meeting with Health Minister Tyler Shandro,” Smith said.
Statements by Fitz during this morning’s meeting also indicated AHS is considering significant privatization of public health care services.
“AHS will continue to consider all options available to meet our organizational needs including changes to staff mix, service design including changes and repurposing of sites, relocating services, reducing or ceasing the provision of services,” Fitz said in a letter addressed to UNA Labour Relations Director David Harrigan.
The letter also said AHS is considering “reconfiguring services provided at some smaller sites.””
By United Nurses of Alberta November 26, 2019 12:14
Reposted from una.ca
“The Alberta Labour Relations Board has released a ruling in response to United Nurses of Alberta’s complaint against Alberta Health Services after the employer was directed by the Government of Alberta to change its position in the wage reopener arbitration with UNA from no increase in 2019 to a wage rollback of 3 per cent.
An LRB hearing was held on Nov. 22, during which UNA representatives argued that the union was in arbitration with AHS, not the Alberta Government, and that changing its position was evidence of bargaining in bad faith under section 60(3) of the Labour Relations Code.
On Nov. 26 the LRB released a ruling stating that while the board had jurisdiction to address UNA’s complaint, in the context of the application, AHS did not breach section 60(3) of the Code by changing its position in the wage reopener arbitration. The LRB did not release the reasons for its ruling, which will be issued at a later date.
UNA is disappointed with the LRB ruling, but expects a fair arbitration process in accordance with the law. The wage reopener arbitration between UNA, AHS and other health care employers is scheduled to take place on Dec. 4 and 5, 2019.
UNA represents more than 30,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and allied health care workers in Alberta, a significant majority employed in the public sector.”
United Nurses of Alberta, Local 196 
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