News & Events

The City of Winnipeg is replacing the Dublin Avenue Bridge over Omand’s Creek, which means the full closure of eastbound and westbound Dublin Avenue, therefore affecting access to the MAHCP office from the west. How long will this major project take? This construction project began this month of January and is expected to continue until…

The new bargaining unit certificates for Shared Health and WRHA bargaining units come into effect this Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. MAHCP’s newest members – those transitioning from other unions this Friday – will be receiving an information package at their home mailing address by the end of this week. We encourage you to read through…

The December 2019 Newsletter is now available online and features a wonderful Q & A with retired MAHCP member and therapeutic clown David Langdon.

MAHCP President Bob Moroz responds to the Pallister Government’s Clinical and Preventative Services Plan, which was made public on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019: “What this Plan lacks, like many others before it, are the details, especially for us in Allied Health Care. It doesn’t talk about which communities will be affected, which professions and all…

MAHCP welcomes our newest Labour Relations Officer Dustin Czmola. Dustin was born into a union family and began his official involvement in the labour movement in 2004, when he was voted in as Vice President of his union’s local. From there, he climbed the ranks and accepted his first paid union position in 2010 with…

Winnipeg —The Government of Manitoba, led by Premier Brian Pallister, delivered today’s Speech from the Throne outlining the Pallister government’s priorities for the next year. When it comes to health care, this underwhelming Throne Speech raises more questions than it answers and makes no mention of the Allied Health Professionals that make health care delivery…

The Bill 29 Commissioner will be issuing interim bargaining unit certificates to successful unions in the recent representation votes, effective as of December 13, 2019 for the new WRHA and Shared Health bargaining units.  A new interim bargaining unit certificate will also be issued for the NRHA effective December 8, 2019, but there will be…

MAHCP provides answers In the wake of the health care representation votes held in the summer of 2019, MAHCP has received many questions from both current and new, incoming members.  Thank you for your interest and engagement! To help you better understand this process, we have created the following FAQ. More questions and answers will…

As the Association works through the changes that will be occurring with the new members coming to us as a result of the recent representation votes, it has become necessary to temporarily assign different LROs to some portfolios. The changes are as follows: Gill Gagné, our newest MAHCP Labour Relations Officer (LRO), assumed Jocelyn House…

  Medical radiation technologists (MRTs) work within four disciplines: radiological technology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy or magnetic resonance imaging.   They are the very image of care; the essential link between compassionate care and the most sophisticated imaging and therapeutic technologies, contributing their expertise to the diagnosis and treatment of millions of Canadians each year. Thank…

MAHCP is very proud to announce the addition of Gill Gagné to our Labour Relations team. Gill, who most recently worked in Labour Relations at Diagnostic Services Manitoba (Shared Health), has plenty of union experience. For 18 years, Gill worked as a Greygoose bus lines driver (no “Perimeter-itus” for him) and was very involved with…

As announced during MAHCP’s AGM earlier this month, Shelley Kowalchuk won the election for the office of Physiotherapy Director. The announcement was made in accordance to Article 7 of the MAHCP Constitution. A vote was held in September for the two candidates for the position of Physiotherapy Director: Shelley Kowalchuk and Lyle Sasek. We thank…