Nurses and Unions

• UNA is born and goes directly into a bargaining crisis
• Government makes it illegal for hospital nurses to strike
• Negotiations in 1990 move forward
• 1988 Nurses defy law with province-wide strike
• Nurses early collective action in Alberta
• Nurses continue to push for improvements
• Nurses first major strike in 1980s
• How Alberta Nurses Unionized
• Heather Smith... leading nurses in advocating for their patients
• Introduction of Collective Bargaining to Saskatchewan (Staff Nurses Associations)
• Inception of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses
• The 1976 Strike
• SUN's first major setback.
• SUN Growing Pains
• 1974 SUN Strike
• 1999 SUN Strike
• Difficulty of going on Strike
• Dorsey Commission