STATEMENT REGARDING AUPE WILDCAT HEATHCARE STRIKE

CUPE is in full support of Alberta health care workers who are protesting their loss of jobs at the hands of the Kenney government.

The people who work in health care are the heroes of the pandemic. They risk their own health to keep the rest of us safe.

These workers are being attacked by Jason Kenney who wants to fire them, and then rehire some of them into lower paying jobs after stripping them of their pension plan.

Alberta Health care workers have been through this before. Previous conservative governments have tried this routine only to admit it caused too much chaos and disruption. And that was when there wasn’t a pandemic.

Jason Kenney needs to stand down. Jason Kenney needs to cancel his plan to fire 11,000 health care workers.

Go to http://protectalbertahealthcare.ca/ to tell Jason Kenney to protect these workers!