Red Deer Museums' Staff Association
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- Corporate body
- 1993-2008
On February 15, 1989 a group of staff decided to formally organize an association that incorporates the staff of the Red Deer & District Museum, Kerry Wood Nature Centre, and Fort Normandeau under the name "the Red Deer Museums' Staff Association". The purpose of this Association was to "communicate amongst ourselves, represent the interests of staff, and actively communicate with the Board in the interests of the museums' system."
This organization grew out of a change in the Museum Management Board structure and concerns about unionization and merger into the City of Red Deer system. There were meetings and correspondence around these changes and concerns, including requesting that a nonmanagement staff member have a seat at the Board. Following the creation of the Association, they changed that request to have an Association member attend in the capacity of Observer.
The Association dissolved when the members of it became part of the local CUPE 417-06 union, around the same time that the Normandeau Cultural and Natural History Society ended its operations. This took place by 2008.