From the Frontlines
A relentless voice for workers: Speaking out, holding power to account, and standing up for AUPE members.
"It's not greedy to ask for what you are worth." -Sandra Azocar
No relief for staff shortages as Assisted Living Alberta rolled out
Edmonton Journal: 2/25
“We're seeing a serious crisis in terms of staffing levels and leaving one health care aid for 16 to 20 patients that need higher levels of care." - Sandra Azocar
Province executing 'all-out war' on disability community, say AUPE
Red Deer Advocate 01/25
"What we're hoping we're going to see in the provincial budget is a significant increase that actually matches the growth, not just in population, but the growth of the need that we're seeing in the complexity of cases." - Sandra Azocar
The gaps are huge: AUPE says continuing care is in crisis
CTV News: 10/24
"What we're looking at is more of a bigger plan in terms of dealing with the chaos that is happening in rural Alberta. As a vice president, I get to travel all across the northwest and I see, all the time, the impacts that closures, supposedly temporary closures, of ERs are having on communities in northern Alberta, and it's not being addressed." - Sandra Azocar
