UNA Local 115 Communications Committee
Erin Guyette (Boyd)Co-Chair
115 Vice President
Communications Committee Chair PRC Committee Co-Chair
I started my nursing career at the University of Calgary in 2010, upon graduation I began my first nursing job at FMC within Cardiac Sciences department. I still immensely enjoy working with this patient population, and the amazing friends and colleagues that I have had the pleasure to know. During my early nursing career, I always had immense respect for UNA and the guidance and support that they provide their membership. However, it was during the arrival of Covid-19 in Alberta, and the attacks on our Collective Agreement, that I felt I could no longer idly stand by without advocating for both myself and my colleagues.
My involvement with UNA began with the PRC Committee and grew to becoming the PRC Committee Co-Chair and the acclaimed Vice President for Local 115. I am incredibly thankful for this team and the knowledge and support they bring. The journey has not been easy, but being able to support our membership is something I am truly passionate about every single day.
Rebecca Brown
Day Medicine
Communications Committee
I’m Rebecca Brown and I have been an RN for many years. I trained in the UK, graduating in 1992. I worked in many different hospital units and clinics before coming to Calgary in 2008. I started at FMC on Unit 102 and moved to my current unit, Day Medicine, in 2010.
I have been part of the OHS committee for the last 2 years. Outside of work, I’m one of the “Calgary Raging Grannies”, for whom I write many of the songs and play piano/keyboards in our recordings. Im also part of the “Mountains not Mines” action group. In the summer you will find me camping as much as I can. I look forward to bringing my passion for advocacy to the communications committee.
Heather Haberli
Unit 92, Short Stay Cardiology
Communications Committee
My name is Heather. The current state of healthcare has enticed me to explore the labor movement, seeking opportunities and optimism.
I was raised by a left wing horticulturalist Dad and coastal Californian Mom who modelled loving kindness. I grew up on the back of a horse in rural Alberta, along the saskatoon berry clad banks of the Bow, just upstream of Siksika Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy). I was transplanted between horticulture and the rural Alberta heartland of feedlot cowfolks. The unique lens that I view Alberta and its people is sculpted from the vantage afforded to me from the back of this tall Appaloosa, who taught me to trust my instincts and be prepared for what I can’t anticipate. I make a mean borscht that may have been the fuel of labor in the roots of my family tree.
I look forward to advocating for the support and resources that Nurses and more broadly, Albertans deserve. Ya know, it was unions that brought us the weekend…
I’m an elder millennial (but younger than Scarlett Johansson) who is not tech savvy unless you consider a sphygmomanometer tech. I have impostor's syndrome when it comes to Connect Care. I speak various Latino dialects of Spanish, that don‘t suffice for translating critical information with a patient but build a therapeutic relationship rapidisimo. My main love is cardiac sciences, but I’ve dabbled in the NICU and world of research. I’ve lived abroad, Nursed on an island, yet always come home to the expansive prairie sunset and family, of which I also consider one of my finest adult achievements (although my husband deserves credit here too). When I’m not toiling away at FMC, I might be found documenting wild flora of AB/BC, sleeping in a tent, riding a bike, or building vast lego complexes with my kids. One last thing, if you’ve made it this far, please, always, vote.
Tony Huynh
Hi everyone, my name is Tony!
Inpatient Palliative Care
Communications Committee
OHS Committee
After studying a few years of invertebrate zoology at the University of Calgary, I transferred to the Bachelor of Nursing program and graduated in 2014.
My primary interest has always been end of life and palliative care. I started my nursing career working as a community hospice nurse, before transitioning to inpatient palliative care. My adventures have also brought me working in outpatient pediatrics, in the CVICU briefly, and as a secondary RN in the main ICU during the (many) waves of COVID.
I was originally introduced to union activism and to Local 115 as a ward rep for my unit. Nurses are one of the greatest advocates for patient care. I am a firm believer in the advocacy work that UNA does for us (as nurses), so that we can and have what we need to be able to properly advocate for our patients! It’s UNA’s legacy if advocacy for nurses that has brought me as a member of both Local 115’s OH&S committee and Communications committee. How thankful I am for all the wonderful people I’ve met so far on my nursing and union journey, and likewise, how grateful I am to be able to serve you, the membership!
In my free time outside of work, you’ll find me a variety of different activities – long distance running, experimenting with growing odd and fascinating plants, sock knitting, bread baking, playing with clay, sitting in meditation, or just enjoying a cup of tea and a new book!
Al Perreault
Clinical Nurse Liaison, Alberta Kidney Care
Communications Committee
Hello! My name is Al Perreault, and I have been involved with nursing unions for most of my nursing career. I was an active BCNU member with the Royal Colombian Hospital Local before moving to Alberta, where I reignited my union involvement with UNA Local 115 since 2001. I have been a ward rep, attended local and provincial AGM’s and DMS, and participated in many union activities. I’m currently on the UNA Local 115 Communications Committee.
My background is in Electronics/Computer Technology/Informatics before changing careers to Nursing (Yes, a nerdy nurse!).
When not working, I enjoy family time, playing guitar, hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, landscape photography and going for walks with my cocker spaniels.