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BARGAINING FACTSHEET

January 2014

Employer salary proposal


amounts to rollback
for UNA members
Alberta Health Services and the other employers
subject to the UNA Provincial Collective Agreement
opened the 2013 round of bargaining with monetary proposals that are equivalent to a rollback in
salary for employees represented by United Nurses
of Alberta.
The employer proposed that employees would
have no increases to salaries in the first two years
of the contract. A one per cent increase in the third
year would be contingent on UNA agreeing to
delete part-time designated day of rest and a two
per cent increase would take place in the fourth
year. The employer also proposed UNA members
receive a 1% lump sum payment in the second year,
approximately half of what members currently receive every six months.
The employers proposal would lead to a significant decrease in pay for UNA members as the
cost of living continues to increase over the next four
years. This rollback will be intensified with employer
proposals to eliminate the lump sum payment in all
but the second year, remove designated days of
rest and delete charge pay.

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Suggesting continued increases in the cost of


living over the next four years, Statistics Canada
projects the average weekly earnings of Albertans
have increased by 15.4 per cent between 2008
and 2012. The Alberta Government projects an increase of 3.5 per cent in average weekly earnings
in 2014.
Comparison: Alberta Health Services
salary increases versus Average Weekly
Earnings in Alberta (AWEA) increases:

2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017

AHS
0%
2%
4%
0%
0%
1%**
2%

AWEA
4.41%
3.6%
3.0%
3.5%*
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*Estimate based on Statistics Canada data and Alberta


Government forecasts.
**If UNA agrees to delete part-time designated day of rest.

As the cost of living increases and average


weekly incomes of other Albertans are expected to
rise, Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric
Nurses could be left behind if the employers get
their way.

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