Thousands of Alberta healthcare workers have voted to ratify a new four-year-deal after narrowly averting a strike last weekend.

Nearly 16,000 Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) members, licensed practical nurses and health care aides employed by Alberta Health Services (AHS), Allen Grey Continuing Care, and the new pillars of health care, have ratified a new collective agreement that will shape wages and working conditions until 2028.

The agreement, retroactive to Apr. 1, 2024, will remain in effect until March 31, 2028.

AUPE President Sandra Azocar called the ratification “a long and frustrating process,” but emphasized that members “have officially raised the bar for collective agreements in this province.”

Overall, 71 per cent of members cast their vote. Members employed

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