What is wrong with the ASP? A few of my observations.
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Release Date: 02/24/2025
Health Care State of Emergency - CUPE AB
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For information on the state of AB healthcare I would direct you to the Breakdown AB on youtube. If you want to sign the petition. Go to to sign the petition. This is a CUPE AB initiative. Help them out!
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Elections - Watch for Posters
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Two elections. Big and Small. Treasurer is up. Two people running. Robin Orsulak and Brad Wilson. Robin is the incumbent and Brad is a current exec at large. Trustee has two Jaimie Domstad and Josh Dyck.
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Season 9. Thanks for listening. More to come.
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Going to spool up the podcast for season 9. 25 years with the City. This is going to be a fun year. Bargaining is coming.
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What is going on with the UCP? Separate question. What is going on with Recalls?
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My take on the Alberta politics. Wow.
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The spectacular uniform.
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Lets talk about the uniform clauses.
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December 2025 No Quorum. :(
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We will have elections starting in the new year. If you have your meetings in you will be eligible. With the upcoming meeting being a bargaining year, it will be a big election I am sure of it.
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Come to the Open House
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Dec 5, 2025. 4pm - 8pm. Should be a great time. Online meetnigs are still not on the table. Not sure it will happen in 2026. Call the hall and let them know you want online meetings.
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HSA Claim using Health and Dental Premiums. Update.
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Go to if you are interested in seeing the video that matches with this episode. Claiming your HSA is easy and many don't know how to even do it. With the welness account coming figuring out how much you want to place in either account is important in maximizing your benefits with the employer. It has been a while since the last video on this. Many have picked up how to do this and I am very happy to see people getting what they can out of their benefits. The app doesn't work just yet, but the website is checked and verified. Search HSA H&DP WA 2025 on youtube to find the video.
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COVID Shot Confirmed Covered by Greenshield
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I got my shot, and not even out of pocket. $119.89 at Costco. If you want it, you can know it was covered by a member with level 2 extended health coverage. Shame on the UCP for not covering it, but the employer has stepped up to the plate and covered it through the metrics availiable. Greenshield will pay for it without you even paying out of pocket. It's not 100% so be prepared for a small fee.
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What is a General Strike. Why should you care.
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What happens when a government decides to stream roll through bad bills? You get a bunch of people talking recall and Gernal Strikes. What does that mean. In order for a general strike to even mean anything a bunch more industry and people have to get on board. Do we have it at this point? I don't know, but I am not sure we do. We need to get there and the UCP might be what we need to push it to a go level.
info_outlineThis is an audio version of the youtube video on the same topic. The Attendance Suport Program is advertised as a great program that recently was able to reduce the amount of hours to get on the program from 50 a quarter to 36 hours. Why does this matter? It matters because innocent absenteeism is a fancy way of saying we can't get the stuff we want from the culpable system. This system will help us with other programs and hopefully get people to work. The problem is the system is always correcting. The better employees, the less time you can miss to be on the program. We are at a point in time where one week off is more time than is required to bring in a note from a doctor. In S/A land this is a non-culpable claim where the program starts without any suspicion there would be an issue.
Not even thinking of the grieveances.