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Oil Sands
Will the oil sands be used to build a brighter future? Or will we simply ship jobs and opportunities "down the pipeline"? Alberta is in the midst of a profound economic transformation...

Health and Safety
Alberta is the one of the most dangerous places in Canada to be a worker. In 2008, the most recent year for which national statistics are available, there were 5.9 deaths per hundred thousan...

Temporary Foreign Workers
Exploitation of foreign workers continues unabated Events Workshop - November 18, 2010 - The TFW Disaster: How the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is impacting Alberta's reputation ...

Health Care
For years, successive Progressive Conservative governments have attempted to undermine health care and Premier Ed Stelmach is at it once more, seeking to slash spending, freeze wages, cut jo...

Pensions
Upcoming Events: More than 11 million Canadian workers, 68% of the workforce, have no workplace pension. Eight million have neither a private pension plan nor registered retiremen...

Join Together Alberta
Join Together Alberta Town Hall, Calgary, June 14, 2011 - Powerpoint Presentation Using the global economic crisis as a smokescreen, the Alberta government threatened a severe assau...

Green Jobs
Alberta needs to create jobs to replace the thousands lost due to the recession. It also needs to clean up the environment. Some would have us believe that we can't do both, that we have to...

Employment Insurance
Employment in Alberta has taken a hammering since the global economic crisis struck. But, just when more and more people need Employment Insurance (EI), they are finding that it isn't delive...

Legal Protection for Farm Workers Now!
Imagine going to work in the morning with no guarantees that you will be paid, with no ability to refuse dangerous work, no access to WCB and no right to join a union. And all for possibly l...

Labour Laws
Labour Code Review: June 2011 - "Improving Alberta's Competitive Position through Improved Labour Relations Legislation Affecting the Construction Industry": A Report by the Construction ...

Minimum Wage
The Alberta Federation of Labour believes that anyone who works full time, full year in our province should earn a wage that allows them to stay out of poverty. The current minimum wage does...

Election 2012
Brian Mason NDP Candidate, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood http://albertandp.ca/brianmason Rachel Notley NDP Candidate, Edmonton-Stratcona http://albertandp.ca/rachelnotley...

AFL 100th Anniversary
The AFL - Building on 100 Years of Struggle The Alberta Federation of Labour will celebrate its centennial in 2012. 100 years ago a small group of railway workers, miners, farmers, typograp...

Latest Comments

look at this and ask if there is a connection?? I would say yes! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/...

Tim Shaw

Posted On: Businesses being given temporary foreign worker permits regardless of economic need

Union is family and family stick together and help one another when they need to. Very much like any poli...

Larry Connell

Posted On: Labour leaders concerned about response to strike

I have read the above report, but I don't find anything specific. How are foreign workrers exploited, par...

Brahma Chaudhuri

Posted On: Alberta Entrenching Exploitation of Foreign Workers

I agree, I stand in solidarity! ...

melanie Decillia

Posted On: Government needs to get its priorities straight when it comes to resolving prison strikes

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