About 16,000 unionized Alberta hospital staff, together with licensed sensible nurses and health-care aides, have voted overwhelmingly to strike if essential to again contract calls for.
The Alberta Union of Provincial Staff says about 11,000 staff voted and 98 per cent permitted job motion.
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If the unofficial vote outcomes stand, AUPE members might start job motion as quickly as Nov. 20.
The employees and the provincial authorities have been negotiating for months with no decision.
AUPE president Sandra Azocar says members are pushing for higher wages and safer working situations, and that mediation is scheduled to start quickly.
Finance Minister Nate Horner says the province has supplied a 12 per cent wage enhance over 4 years, but additionally estimates the union’s counter-proposal would value Albertans greater than $2 billion.
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