Alberta nurses took part in simultaneous information pickets across the province on Wednesday in an effort to amplify their concerns that understaffing, closed hospital beds and salary rollbacks will impact patient care. Members of other health-care unions including the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and the Canadian Union of Public Employees also joined to show support. The nurse's union is also critical of the province's plan to discontinue contact tracing, along with mandatory isolation for positive cases, on Aug. 16. (Elissa Carpenter/CBC)'The system is in dire straits'In a written statement, UNA said Alberta's nurses are exhausted, overworked and in need of fairness in the workplace. People rallied in support of Alberta nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton on Wednesday.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2021 17:58 UTC