04/05/2025
Congrats To our Hardworking Nurses United Nurses of Alberta, we celebrate your achievement and know you deserve more than this, we appreciate your hard work you do everyday for our community.
📺 From CTV: Thousands of Alberta nurses will be earning a higher wage and other benefits over the next four years after “overwhelmingly” ratifying their collective agreement on Wednesday.
United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) represents more than 35,000 registered nurses, psychiatric nurses and allied health workers across the province.
Online voting took place on Wednesday, with 100 per cent of UNA’s 124 locals voting in favour of accepting the new agreement. UNA members had a 77.38 per cent voter turnout.
“This round of negotiations was about Respect, Retention and Recruitment,” said UNA President Heather Smith in a news release Thursday.
“When UNA members voted against ratifying a settlement that had been recommended by a Mediator last October, they spoke clearly, and we listened. The result was the agreement ratified yesterday.”
Workers will be receiving an immediate 15 per cent pay increase, with an overall increase of around 20 per cent over the next four years. UNA says this makes Alberta nurses the highest paid in any province.
The collective agreements also include an annual three per cent wage increase, job security during health-care restructuring, “significant” monetary increases for on-call, charge pay and other premiums.
Nurses will also have assistance for rural health-care staffing and a revised annual pay grid with pay increases of four per cent between each step.
The agreement is with Alberta Health Services, Recovery Alberta, Primary Care Alberta, Covenant Health, Lamont Health Care Centre and The Bethany Group.
