The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees has launched a constitutional challenge against the UCP government's controversial Bill 1.

AUPE said staff are reporting surgical masks that do not seal their faces properly, pinch their noses and have straps that fall apart during patient care.

The union was challenging Alberta government legislation to delay binding arbitration in collective bargaining agreements affecting thousands of workers.

Alberta is asking about 24,000 government staff, including sheriffs and social workers, to take a pay cut in their next contract -- something their union says is being done out of spite.

Alberta's largest public sector union says an independent arbitrator has awarded some of its members a raise instead of rollbacks requested by the government.

"For AUPE alone, we're looking at a full-time equivalence of 5,900 jobs across the province. That's a huge concern, not only for our members, but for the services provided by our members."

Dozens of Calgary nurses rallied outside Carewest's Colonel Belcher seniors home on Monday, vocalizing their opposition to proposed schedule changes.

A large gathered at Edmonton's MacEwan University on Monday night to discuss their concerns with the direction Premier Jason Kenney and his government are taking the province.

Alberta's largest public sector union says the government plans to cut up to 5,900 positions as part of its plan to balance the province's budget by the 2022-23 fiscal year.

The U of C was one of the educational institutions expected to see the biggest hit after the government slashed advanced education funding.