HSAA members vote to accept province’s contract offer

By Lethbridge Herald on November 27, 2025.

Alexandra Noad
Lethbridge Herald
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) members have ratified a new collective agreement with Alberta Health Services and other provincial health agencies, with 66.8 per cent of members voting in favour of the agreement.

After a 20-month bargaining process, a total of 15,724 members cast their ballots between Nov. 20-25, which was a turnout of 76 per cent of HSAA members.

HSAA covers more than 22,000 health care professionals from diagnostic imaging technologists, radiation therapist, paramedics, 911 dispatchers along with many more.

Every single HSAA employee will receive a 12 per cent raise over four years; professional fee reimbursement and three paid professional development pay; and enhanced medical benefits which now include coverage for diabetic glucose monitors.

Mike Parker, president of HSAA says this new agreement includes things members have been asking for years and will also protect the rights of their members through Alberta’s healthcare restructuring process.

“It protects the members rights in this really challenging time of healthcare restructuring, but it allows them to retain portability seniority and all of those rights across all these new agencies and corporations.”

Along with the agreement, the Government of Alberta has signed two new Letters of Understanding (LOU), which will address some of the most critical issues health care workers are facing.

Parker says this is the first time an employer has ever agreed to something like this.

“(The LOU’s) allows us to dig into these issues members are talking about, more specifically to ensure they are represented and cover those vacancy rates.”

He adds that this new deal will not only help current members, but also ensure other members not included in this deal will have a stable framework when it comes to negotiations in the near future.

“This starts to lay a framework for our members to ensure we have a stable process going forward with an ability or mechanism to support those who are not being supported at this time by their employer and we will get there for all of them.”