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LABOUR NIGHT at Canada Life Centre!
Read Article: LABOUR NIGHT at Canada Life Centre!Jets vs. Calgary Flames – Friday, October 24 at 7pm MAHCP members receive an exclusive ticket package for the Winnipeg Jets’ Organized Labour Night. Ticket packages start at just $65 and include a $15 concession card to use at the game.
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Message from MAHCP President Jason Linklater on Member Safety & Health
Read Article: Message from MAHCP President Jason Linklater on Member Safety & HealthPosted on September 29, 2025 Health care is a dangerous place to work. Injury rates in health care, including physical and psychological injuries, are higher than in any other sector or profession, according to Manitoba Workers Compensation Board statistics. Despite the risks, we still show up for our patients, clients, and residents every day. The…
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National Day for Truth & Reconciliation – Ways to get involved
Read Article: National Day for Truth & Reconciliation – Ways to get involvedTuesday, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour Residential School Survivors and to help all Canadians understand this dark chapter in our country’s history and its present-day impacts. In 2021, almost one-quarter of a million Indigenous people called Manitoba home, making up 18.1% of the population, and more than…
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Rhonda’s Story: ‘Denare Beach will never be the same’
Read Article: Rhonda’s Story: ‘Denare Beach will never be the same’Rhonda Werbicki, Flin Flon General Hospital Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT), lost everything she owned in the Northern wildfires of Summer 2025. Rhonda is a MAHCP member and General Duty MLT at the Flin Flon General Hospital, and she has lived in Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, for almost 30 years. Her children were raised there, she’s spent…
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MAHCP statement to our members at Women’s Health Clinic
Read Article: MAHCP statement to our members at Women’s Health ClinicPosted September 16, 2025 During the week of September 8, Women’s Health Clinic made headlines due to the resignation of its five-year Executive Director, who cited an environment tainted by “toxicity and latent and overt racism and white privilege”. Women’s Health Clinic staff includes 30 valuable MAHCP members who work as counsellors, educators, dietitians, and…
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2025/26 MAHCP Executive Council Election Results
Read Article: 2025/26 MAHCP Executive Council Election ResultsElections were conducted between August 29 and September 5, 2025 via secure online third-party voting application, Simply Voting, for the position of Vice President, as well as for the position of Director in District 12 – South and for Director in District 14 – Winnipeg Central 2. The results have been tabulated, and all candidates…
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Manitoba Federation of Union Retirees launches new website
Read Article: Manitoba Federation of Union Retirees launches new websiteUpdate from MFUR President Paul Moist Posted September 2, 2025 The Manitoba Federation of Union Retirees (MFUR) is back online with a new website stronger than ever! MFUR was “re-booted” in May 2024 after ceasing operations during the COVID pandemic. As the Manitoba affiliate of the 500,000-member Congress of Union Retirees of Canada (CURC), MFUR…
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Unions: More important than ever!
Read Article: Unions: More important than ever!A message from NUPGE President Bert Blundon Posted August 31, 2025 This past month we witnessed the inspiring example of ten thousand unionized flight attendants going on strike to take a stand against poverty wages. When the federal government attempted to interfere in their right to collectively bargain, they were joined in the streets and…
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Crisis Response Centre: An Ongoing Crisis for Clinicians
Read Article: Crisis Response Centre: An Ongoing Crisis for CliniciansPosted August 29, 2025 It has been 15 months since the Winnipeg Free Press published an article exposing the serious challenges facing mental health clinicians, social workers, nurses, and counsellors working at the Crisis Response Centre (CRC), a vital 24/7 facility that supports Manitobans in need of urgent mental health care. Fifteen months later, and…
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MAHCP statement about CancerCare Manitoba’s safety & security protocols
Read Article: MAHCP statement about CancerCare Manitoba’s safety & security protocolsPosted August 20, 2025 It has been less than two weeks since concerns about safety and security at the Health Sciences Centre campus reached a boiling point following escalating violence. Yet, this week, CancerCare Manitoba was in the news for continuing to direct staff to use one of five less secure building doors other than…
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MAHCP message to our members working at HSC in response to security concerns
Read Article: MAHCP message to our members working at HSC in response to security concernsPosted August 8, 2025 To our valued members working at HSC: MAHCP is keenly aware of recent threats to the physical safety of staff and patients at Health Sciences Centre, including serious incidents that have occurred in the past day. We have long been pushing the employer for urgent action. They aren’t doing enough to…
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MAHCP statement in response to WRHA home care scheduling & staffing crisis
Read Article: MAHCP statement in response to WRHA home care scheduling & staffing crisisPosted July 31, 2025 Imagine living with Parkinson’s disease and moving to a more accessible home (just 10 minutes from your previous address), only to discover that your four daily home care appointments won’t be available to you for FIVE weeks. Then imagine your 72-year-old spouse, who is still employed full-time, will be serving as…
