Print'Safe Staffing Saves' is the theme of 2014 UNA AGM, opening Tuesday
More than 800 expected at three-day AGM
The 37th Annual General Meeting of the United Nurses of Alberta opens in Edmonton on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 18.
More than 800 delegates and other participants will be focused on the need for safe staffing in all health care settings at all times. The theme of the three-day AGM is “Safe Staffing Saves.”
The meeting will be called to order at 9 a.m. The opening will be followed immediately by an address by UNA President Heather Smith.
Key speakers at this year’s AGM will concentrate on the theme’s emphasis on the need for safe staffing levels in health care. They include:
- Dr. Maura MacPhee of the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, who will speak on safe staffing lessons learned in the workplace, on Tuesday, Nov. 18
- Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow on “Saving Canada and What We Value,” on Wednesday, Nov. 19
- Jane Ball of the National Nursing Research Unit of King’s College London on the evidence about safe staffing, on Thursday Nov. 20.
Delegates democratically elected by UNA’s approximately 30,000 members will also deal with important union business, including approval of UNA’s annual budget and elections for Board Representatives from the South and North Central districts.
UNA signed a new Provincial Collective Agreement with Alberta Health Services and other major employers in August and is now moving on to negotiating at several bargaining tables with smaller not-for-profit and private-sector health care employers.
The AGM, taking place at the at the Edmonton EXPO Centre, will adjourn on Thursday afternoon.
