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CUPE AB represents 40,000 muni, school, healthcare, PSE, and other workers across the province. Proudly woke. They/Them.

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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 months
Low wages are causing a staffing crisis in Alberta schools. Deanna's son has autism & went through 6 aides in the first months of the year before the school found one willing to work for the wage being offered. #abed #ableg #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
BREAKING: Medicine Hat and Prairie Rose School Divisions have both decided support staff are too important for students to do without. They will not do Kenney's bidding and let them go. #ableg HEROES. #abpoli #medhat #abed #covid19ab
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Remember that moment when the Fort McMurray fires were at their worst and no one could find Rachel Notley? Of course not, Notley did two news conferences per day. #covid19ab is spiralling out of control and no one can find the Premier. #ableg #yyc #yeg #yql #WhereIsKenney
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Imagine if, during the Fort McMurray fires, Rachel Notley had made daily statements about how firefighters were overpaid. Because that's what we have right now with Kenney and the doctors. #ableg #abpoli #covid19 #ymm #yyc #yeg #abhealth
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
11 months
7. A flight’s PA system should be used to give passengers information they need and require. The crew is responsible for the safety of everyone on board, and we take that responsibility seriously. WestJet management and Mr. Poilievre owe passengers and crew an apology. -end-
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
11 months
THREAD: Statement by WestJet union regarding the use of a WestJet flight Public Address (PA) system by Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. @WestJet #WestJet
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
The film industry demands vaccines because the cost of losing a shoot is so high. Danielle Smith is telling film productions to go elsewhere - at a cost of good paying jobs for Albertans. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #abfilm
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
It’s worth noting that Jason Kenney and all UCP MLAs have paid sick leave as they flee the #ableg . Too many #Alberta workers in retail and other positions who are exposed to COVID do not. #abpoli #yyc #yeg #covid19ab
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Orange you glad Alberta’s having an election? #abpoli #ABelection
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
Brian Jean says it’s ok to not get vaccinated if that’s your choice. On the same page of the paper, woman loses her nose after cancer surgery delayed due to un-vaxed filling up hospitals and ICUs. #ableg #alberta #calgary #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #reddeer
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Danielle Smith actually said this, “moderate cigarette consumption can reduce traditional risks of disease by 75%.” And a lot of other crazy things. See for yourself. #alberta #calgary #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli #ucpldr #yql #reddeer
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
They said they would create jobs and lost 300,000. They said they would lower taxes and they went up. They said they would lower the debt & deficit & raised them. They said they wouldn’t cut front line services and slashed education, health care, AISH, post secondary. #FiretheUCP
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
This is Laura Walton, head spokeswoman for CUPE Ontario education workers. She’s a hero. She won a battle that will have a positive impact on workers for generations. It’s not too much to say she saved our right to bargain & to strike. So proud she is part of CUPE! #canlab #ableg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
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6. Giving Mr. Poilievre a platform showed bad judgement by WestJet. Mr. Poilievre showed bad judgement taking that opportunity. It is the cabin crew who deal with passenger complaints. WestJet management and Mr. Poilievre should not have put them in that position.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Conservative brags about getting special treatment for his daughter because he has connections. #yyc #ableg #abpoli #yeg #cbe #ccsd #abed #yql
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Bill 32 is union busting. Mr. Kenney, we will see you in court. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #CUPE #ablabour #cdnlabour
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
10 months
Statement from Rory Gill, President of CUPE Alberta This Wednesday, conservative groups will protest at schools other public locations against the rights of trans and non-binary youth. THREAD (continued below) #abed #alberta #ableg #yyc #yeg #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
We're not saying Danielle Smith is hateful. But hateful people think she is. #ableg #abpoli #alberta
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CUPE Alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
Hard to believe Justin Trudeau shut down the #Alberta Legislature. #ableg #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
11 months
3. "It’s very disappointing that WestJet management let a politician use the public address (PA) system on a recent flight for his political statement. It is doubly disappointing that WestJet is now trying to assign blame on the cabin crew for this event.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
Jason Kenney wants nurses to pay back 3% of their wages going back a full year. That means nurses who worked the most during the pandemic will be the deepest in debt. #alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #calgary #edmonton #abhealth #canmore #reddeer
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Jason Kenney did not cause the drop in oil prices. But he did cause Alberta to not be ready for this by cancelling diversification, value added and green energy programs. #ableg #abpoli #abenergy #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #ymm #yql
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
11 months
4. The cabin crew had no input into this decision. WestJet’s own work rules state clearly that no one other than operating crew are to use the public address system.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Alberta has the LOWEST level of vaccine roll out of any province in Canada. The UCP minister responsible for getting the vaccines out there is Tracy Allard. She just got back from Hawaii. Where she went on vacation. Against travel restrictions. #ableg #yqu #yyc #abpoli
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CUPE Alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Well this is encouraging. For the first time in 11 fundraising quarters, the Alberta NDP has out fundraised the UCP. 2020 - 2nd quarter (April-Jun): NDP: $1,032,796.85 UCP: $642,677.29 #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #alberta #calgary #edmonton #yql
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
11 months
5. A plane’s cabin crew should never be put in a position of having to take a political stance.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Jason Kenney just spent an hour addressing Albertans. He spent a good deal of time talking about the pandemic. He never mentioned those who passed away. No regret, no empathy, not even thoughts and prayers. #ableg #ucp #alberta #abpoli #yyc #calgary #yeg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Danielle Smith: if you think workers got mad at Doug Ford for using the notwithstanding clause, that's a tiny fraction of what you will face if you take Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan. #ableg #abpoli #cpp #canpoli #yeg #yyc #calgary
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
We’ve checked with #CUPE educational workers in NDP British Columbia, and conservative Saskatchewan and Ontario. Alberta is the only province laying off mass numbers of school support staff. #ableg #abed #abpoli #yyc #yeg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
. @MattWolfAB has not posted on Twitter for over 50 hours. It’s a Thanksgiving miracle. #ableg #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
10 months
This is why we should all be very afraid of Danielle Smith and the UCP controlling our pension funds. #alberta #cpp #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
What the hell? Not one single smile among them. Not one. Super weird. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith bought six bottles of children's Tylenol for every child in Alberta. She paid $17 per bottle. It retails for about $8. The medicine arrived four months late to help with the shortage. They don't know what they're doing. #yyc #calgary
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith is too unpredictable, too extreme and too ill suited for the job to be Alberta's Premier. We need a new government. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #reddeer #abvotes #yeg #edmonton
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CUPE Alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Alberta needs a grown up government. #FireTheUCP
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Nine months into his reign of error, Jason Kenney has not created a single new job, taxes & fees are up, the deficit has skyrocketed, and they are legislating on social issues. This is not what Albertans voted for. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #ymm #reddeer #cupe #ablabour
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Premier's staff attempting to destroy evidence of emails to Crown Prosecutors. #ableg #abpoli #alberta #lastofus
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Danielle Smith: if you think workers got mad at Doug Ford for using the notwithstanding clause, that's a tiny fraction of what you will face if you take Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan. #ableg #abpoli #cpp #canpoli #yeg #yyc #calgary
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith can’t find a few people to stand behind her during a press conference. But 1,700 people managed to remain standing and even walked from door to door for 3-4 hours today for the NDP. #ableg #abpoli
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Courtney Theriault
1 year
On her radio show, Premier Danielle Smith says she’s limiting reporters to one question to get to more media outlets- adding you can’t do hour long media conferences, and that people behind her could have fainted in Friday’s presser if it went long.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
On what planet is it acceptable for a UCP MLA to show up, late at night, with a gang of 15 men and tell a food truck owner he has to move? It's bullying, threatening, and beyond his jurisdiction. The food truck owner should call the police. #abpoli #ableg #yyc #Calgary
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
THREAD: Jason Kenney acts like the only choice he has is to shut down the economy, or not shut down the economy. There are so many other options he is ignoring. 1) A province wide mask by-law. #ableg #abpoli #covid19ab #alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Rachel Notley just did 12 consecutive questions utterly DEMOLISHING Tyler Shandro on the UCP handling of #covid19ab . No wonder Kenney skipped QP. #WhereIsKenney #ableg #BetterOffWithRachel
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Weren’t Conservatives angry when the PM visited his family at the cottage 30 minutes from Ottawa? #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith & the UCP withheld $1billion in funding for classrooms over two years. They did this despite student suffering during the pandemic. They fired educational assistants & imposed a curriculum that nobody wanted. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #calgary #reddeer #edmonton
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
"In 2019 the United Conservative Party cut Alberta’s wildfire staffing budget and scrapped its $1.4 million Aerial Rapattack fire service team. That same budget looked to cut staff at between 15 to 30 of the province’s 127 wildfire lookout towers."
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
1 year
Three months and seventeen days until Alberta gets a new government. #firetheucp #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #reddeer #yeg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
The RCMP are not just investigating the Calaway campaign. They are investigating Jason Kenney’s own campaign for using fake email addresses to vote. Essentially stuffing a ballot box. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #cupe
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
MUST WATCH: It takes @RachelNotley less than 40 seconds to destroy the the Kenney government's approach COVID contact tracing. #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #yyc #yeg #covid19ab #yql #canmore #banff #Calgary #Edmonton #abhealth
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
It took 10 people to carry the letters of 30,000 Albertans to Jason Kenney's office yesterday, but we did it! That's CUPE AB President Rory Gill leading the way. Albertans won't stand for the UCP's attack on healthcare! #ableg
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CUPE Alberta
2 years
Her whole life, Danielle Smith has promoted dangerous ideas. Cigarettes are good Cancer victims are to blame for their condition. Schools don't need computers. People should pay for medical care out of pocket. We need a new government. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #yeg #yql
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
When unions put up illegal picket lines, we are generally faced with an injunction before lunch. #alberta #ableg #abpoli
@KathleenGanley
Kathleen Ganley
2 years
A clearly illegal protest is blocking a highway to a boarder crossing. It is preventing the movement of goods and people and hurting the economy. The UCP are trying to claim they can’t do anything about it. That’s a lie. #AbLeg 1/
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CUPE Alberta
3 years
Jason Kenney won't shut down businesses that break the law, but he expects 19-year-old waitresses earning minimum wage to enforce rules about who can eat with who in dining-room situations. #alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #calgary #edmonton #yql
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CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith added $3 million to her office budget. A 23% increase over Jason Kenney. The UCP will never change. We need to change the government instead. #alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #yeg #reddeer #edmonton
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
Remember when conservatives went nuts because Rachel Notley left the province during the Fort McMurray fires? No you don't. Because Notley didn't do that. Notley would never do that. #FireKenney #ResignKenney #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #calgary #alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
Just 16 months, 21 days until the next #Alberta election. #ableg #abpoli
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CUPE Alberta
2 years
The Sovereignty Act will chase away jobs and damage Alberta's economy. Danielle Smith should call an election.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Welcome to Alberta.
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CUPE Alberta
2 years
Danielle Smith is dangerous. Last night she announced plans to bring prominent (and widely discredited) anti-vaccine activists into Alberta Health. We need a new government, free from conspiracy theories and dangerous anti-scientific influences. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
Jason Kenney is laying off 11,000 health care workers during a pandemic. They will lay off 4,000 more when the pandemic ends. He laid off 25,000 education workers in May. When does Kenney start creating jobs? Isn't that what he promised? #ableg #yyc #yeg #yql #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Five credit downgrades. Record debt and deficit. Massive job losses. In only 18 months Jason Kenney has achieved everything he accused Notley of over four years. And more! #ableg #abpoli
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Sawhney. Was. The. Minister. When. AISH. Was. Cut. #ableg #alberta #yeg #yyc
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Rajan Sawhney
2 years
If elected Premier, I will index AISH. And address FSCD. The Disability community needs these supports, and I'm very disappointed that government did not include indexing AISH and Senior's benefits.
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
1. #CUPE is in full support of Alberta health care workers who are protesting their loss of jobs at the hands of the Kenney government. #ableg #abpoli #abhealth #aupe #yyc #yeg #ahs
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CUPE Alberta
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CUPE Alberta
1 year
Rachel Notley is a better leader than Danielle Smith. Under her leadership, we will build a better future for Alberta. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #calgary #edmonton #yeg #reddeer #shpk
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CUPE Alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Posting this again 'to spite' Jason Kenney. While Kenney scrambles to get the bare majority of his party to keep him in office, Notley (98.8% approval from her party) is named to the top 50 influencers in Canada. #alberta #ableg #abpoli #yeg #yyc #calgary #edmonton
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
3 years
What would UCP delegates think of doctors who refuse to treat unvaccinated people who contract COVID? #ableg #abpoli
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CUPE Alberta
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CUPE Alberta
1 year
An Alberta man with stage 4 cancer has to wait 10 weeks to see an oncologist. He is now in palliative care & not expected to make it. He has still not seen an oncologist. Health care - Danielle Smith style. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #calgary #edmonton
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Missing from Jason Kenney's announcement dropping COVID restrictions was a single doctor, health expert, or public health official. That is telling - they don't support this. #alberta #ableg #abpoli #COVID19ab #yyc #calgary #yeg #edmonton #yql #reddeer
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
5 years
If Melanee Thomas can only be judged by the fact she ran for the NDP in 2004, then surely we can judge Kenney for statements he made in 2005. #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg @MelaneeLThomas
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
We’d like to assure Jason Kenney that absolutely no one is comparing him to Jesus Christ. #abpoli #ableg
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
Alberta needs a grown up government. #FireTheUCP
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CUPE Alberta
10 months
This is why we should all be very afraid of Danielle Smith and the UCP controlling our pension funds. #alberta #cpp #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
Jason Kenney claims criticism of him is "anti-Albertan." #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #calgary #alberta
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Jason Kenney is the least popular Premier in Canada. #ableg #abpoli #yeg #yyc #ymm #yql #yqu #reddeer #medhat
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
2 years
We need a government of grown-ups. The UCP has to go.
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CUPE Alberta
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
In Kenney's world, 20,000 educational support staff are not needed during a pandemic. But 8 UCP fundraisers access tax dollars to keep working. Raising money for Kenney's re-election fund is more important than supporting special needs kids. #ableg #yyc #yeg #Calgary #Yeg #yql
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
We are happy to report that after #CUPE and @rachelnotley raised concerns yesterday, McKenzie Towne Care Centre will today provide N-95s to employees in the #covid19 ward. #ableg #abpoli #yyc #covid19alberta #abhealth #ablabour
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
Today is a good day to remind everyone in #ableg land that other provinces like Ontario, Quebec and BC are managing COVID without laying off large numbers of school support staff. #abpoli #abed #epsd #covid19ab
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CUPE Alberta
1 year
Danielle Smith has allocated more funding to build private and charter schools than public, catholic and francophone schools combined. #alberta #ableg #abed #abpoli #yyc #calgary #yeg #reddeer #edmonton
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@CupeAB
CUPE Alberta
4 years
When CUPE and @RachelNotley called for single site staffing for long term care, Jason Kenney and the UCP said we were exploiting tragedy. Today, Dr. Hinshaw took our advice. Maybe less histrionics next time front-line workers raise important issues? #ableg #covid19alberta #yyc
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CUPE Alberta
4 years
Cutting minimum wage after spending the last three months calling low wage earners “heroes” is cynical & mean, even for Jason Kenney. He made a clear promise not to cut the minimum wage before the 2019 election. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #calgary #edmonton #alberta
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CUPE Alberta
2 years
Dangerous Danielle Smith.
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