Handicapping the Wisconsin Recall Elections: Badger State Democrats are trying to win at least three recall race on Tuesday. What are the odds?
Never before in American politics have voters recalled more than two state legislators in a single year. That record could be broken on Tuesday, when Wisconsinites vote to decide the […]
Read moreWill Voters Boot Wisconsin Republicans? 7 Things to Know About Tuesday’s Recall Elections
This Tuesday, six Republican state senators who supported Scott Walker’s radical agenda face recall. Here’s what you need to know about the issues at play. August 5, 2011 | Tuesday, […]
Read moreMalawi: Respect Human Rights and Allow Peaceful Protest
LabourOn 20th July 2011, civil society organisations, including the trade union movement headed by the ITUC-affiliated Malawi Confederation of Trade Unions (MCTU), took to the streets to advance legitimate calls […]
Read moreLabor’s Decline and Wage Inequality
The decline in organized labor’s power and membership has played a larger role in fostering increased wage inequality in the United States than is generally thought, according to a study […]
Read moreAlberta’s use of temporary foreign workers ‘shameful,’ says labour group: Many employers said to use guest-worker program as first choice, not last resort
Alberta employers are increasingly looking to temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to fill jobs despite long unemployment lines in other parts of Canada, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL). […]
Read moreTory leadership contenders defend energy stimulus program: Labour group says $2.9 billion would have been better spent elsewhere
EDMONTON — Despite Alberta Federation of Labour claims the province blew $2.9 billion on drilling incentive programs that failed to create jobs or investment in the oilpatch, the Conservatives vying […]
Read moreCanadian jobs lost down the pipeline
Last week U.S. lawmakers decided that President Barack Obama must make a decision sooner than he wanted to on construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver […]
Read more‘Dubai of the North’ tag irks Alberta
CALGARY – Calling Alberta the “Dubai of the North” is insulting to the Arab city, says the provincial employment and immigration minister. Thomas Lukazsuk is reacting to a comment made […]
Read moreKoch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity Begins Six-Figure Ad Buy for GOP Recall Candidates
Six-Figure Ad Buy for GOP Recall Candidates Wisconsinites See Why ‘David Koch’ Was Told ‘Thanks a Million!’ By Walker During Prank Call As Pro-Republican AFP Spending Tops $500,000 in Wisconsin […]
Read moreJuly 2011: Tories give billions of dollars and thousands of jobs away; Alberta Dubai of the North; ethical shopping website; CETA
Alberta Tories give away billions of dollars and thousands of jobs The Alberta Progressive Conservative government’s management of the energy industry and provincial finances has come under fire from the […]
Read moreNew figures show use of temporary foreign workers set to surge while unemployment among Canadians remains stubbornly high
Alberta becoming “Dubai of the North” as many employers use guest-worker program as first choice rather than last resort, warns labour leader Alberta employers are increasingly looking to temporary foreign […]
Read moreAlberta called misery magnet for foreign labourers
Calling Alberta the “Dubai of the North” is insulting to the Arab city, says the provincial employment and immigration minister. Thomas Lukazsuk is reacting to a comment made by the […]
Read moreAFL-CIO, Club for Growth help heat up recall elections
MILWAUKEE – Rallying the troops, Wisconsin’s AFL-CIO is pouring tons of resources into the state to oust six Republican senators in next month’s recall elections. “People are passionate about the […]
Read moreTop union leaders call on Premiers to condemn Harper’s “shocking betrayal on pension reform”: Labour leaders will lobby Premiers at Vancouver meeting tonight, urge them to stand up…
VANCOUVER – The leaders of Canada’s provincial and territorial Federations of Labour today called on the premiers to use their annual meeting, currently underway in Vancouver, as a platform to […]
Read moreAlberta bitumen upgrades fall short
The Alberta Federation of Labour says the Premier needs to live up to a five-year-old promise to upgrade more of the province’s bitumen, right here in Alberta. Figures from the […]
Read moreAlberta-based bitumen upgrading is plummeting, new figures show: ERCB projections demonstrate that Tories have turned their backs on promises to keep oil sands jobs in the province, says…
New figures released today by the Alberta Federation of Labour show that the percentage of oil-sands bitumen upgraded in the province will drop to 52 per cent by 2016 – […]
Read moreA true national energy strategy has to be about more than building bitumen export pipelines
As energy ministers from around the country gather in Kananaskis this week, it’s starting to look like the Alberta government is engaging in an old-fashioned game of bait and switch. […]
Read moreUnions urge energy ministers to keep oil-sands jobs in Canada instead of shipping them “down the pipeline” to U.S. and China: “A true national energy strategy has to be about more …
Is the meeting of energy ministers currently underway in Kananaskis a real attempt to develop an energy strategy that works for Canadians in all regions of the country? Or is […]
Read moreStelmach’s drilling push cost taxpayers $2.9B: Labour group seeks probe into ‘misuse’ of funds
Ed Stelmach’s program to stimulate drilling during the recession cost taxpayers $2.9 billion and failed to create promised jobs, new wells or new investment in the oilpatch, says the Alberta […]
Read moreOilpatch stimulus hit dry hole: union Provincial AFL head wants MLAs to probe ‘outrageous misuse of government funds’
Alberta’s program to stimulate drilling during the recession cost taxpayers $2.9 billion and failed to create promised jobs, new wells or new investment in the oilpatch, says the Alberta Federation […]
Read moreAFL finds evidence of huge royalty giveaway: “Grey market” trading of royalty credits bleeds Treasury of billions
EDMONTON – Oil and gas companies have used $2.9 billion of public money to boost their own profits, while the government lays off over a thousand educational staff and professionals […]
Read moreStelmach’s drilling program failed: Alberta Federation of Labour Program merely padded the profits of major oil and gas companies in Alberta: AFL president
Ed Stelmach’s program to stimulate drilling during the recession cost taxpayers $2.9 billion and failed to create promised jobs, new wells or new investment in the oilpatch, says the Alberta […]
Read moreAlberta drilling incentives padded oil firms’ pockets, labour group charges
EDMONTON — Ed Stelmach’s program to stimulate drilling during the recession cost taxpayers $2.9 billion and failed to create promised jobs, new wells or new investment in the oilpatch, says […]
Read moreRoyalty program a $2.9B failure: union
Over the last two years, oil and gas companies have used $2.9 billion of public money to boost profits under a royalty credit system with little in return for the […]
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