Critically evaluate the article entitled Wildcat Strike at Alberta Hospitals Ordered to End by Labour Board. Outline the various arguments for Alberta Health (employer perspective) and the union and health care employees (union perspective). Overall, do you support the position of the union (and its members) or the employer? Be sure and support your position. Also, discuss the implications of such a dispute on the other actors (parties of interest) in the industrial relations system and the employer- union relationship. Again, be sure and support your answer. Wildcat Strike at Alberta Hospitals Ordered to End by Labour Board Hundreds of Alberta health care workers who walked off the job Monday are being told to stop "illegal strike activity" and return to work, the province's labour board says. It calls on employees engaged in a wildcat strike to cease and desist. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), which represents the workers, said its members would return to work Tuesday. Most of the workers involved in the wildcat strike were general support service staff whose jobs are at risk of being outsourced by the provincial government to private companies. The workers are food service staff, cleaners, porters, clerical staff and maintenance workers. The Minister of Health said that the strikes have put the health and wellbeing of patients at risk and warned the workers involved "will be held accountable." He also stated that there will be no layoffs to frontline service workers in health care. In the vast majority of cases, positions will remain, although they may move from the public sector to the private sector. In a media statement, Alberta Health said all sites remained open but some surgeries and ambulatory care clinics were being postponed. It said it was redeploying non- union staff, including managers, wherever possible to cover for missing staff. Also, it had reached out to staff to ask them to return to work. AUPE president Guy Smith said the walkout was not authorized by the union but the union supports its members' right to strike. The union, which represents more than 60,000 AHS employees including licensed practical nurses, health-care aides, and housekeeping and kitchen staff, accuses the government of proposing "reckless and dangerous" changes to the health care system. "These workers are on strike to protect their jobs, stop the privatization of health care and deal with workload issues in the health-care system at the moment," Smith said. "It comes after over a year of frustration and anger at the government which has been exacerbated by the pandemic." Dina Moreira, who works as a porter at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, walked the picket line in Edmonton on Monday. "We're exhausted; we're really exhausted," she said. "We're working short staffed every day. The work is tough, but critical to the hospital. We are essential services and our jobs are very important." The wildcat strike comes amid the threat of massive cuts in health care, detailed by Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro at a news conference earlier this month. Between 9,700 and 11,000 health care employees will be laid off, most of whom work in laboratory, linen, cleaning and in-patient food services. The jobs will be outsourced to private companies which, Shandro said, will save up to $600 million annually. The Opposition NDP said the government's policies have created "widespread chaos" in the health care system amid the pandemic. "The proposal to privatize the work of 11,000 front-line health care workers in the middle of a pandemic will absolutely result in poorer quality health care for Albertans