Dave Turowec

Since the release of the Royalty Review Panel’s report and final report (click here): big oil companies have been making threats about the “economic disaster” that will ensue in Alberta […]

AFL dismisses so-called “grassroots” event at Legislature as “a gathering for small business bosses who’ve bought into Big Oil’s scare tactics” EDMONTON-If you want to know what rank-and-file oil industry […]

Labour Economic Monitor (October 2007) As the economic boom in Alberta reached its crest over the last two years, employers and the business media alerted the public to a new […]

New research produced by the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Parkland Institute shows that wages in Alberta are lagging behind the rate of inflation. As well, inequality is on […]

EDMONTON – Just because more and more employers are clamoring for access to easy-to-exploit temporary foreign workers doesn’t mean the government should ignore the broader public interest and give them […]

Without safeguards, Keystone pipeline will act as a spigot draining thousands of potential value-added jobs out of Alberta says McGowan If Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was looking for another good […]

The decision rendered this morning by the Alberta Labour Relations Board (LRB) declaring the strike notice filed by the Carpenters union invalid is the latest example of how Alberta’s labour […]

This Labour Day, wage-earning Albertans should resolve to grab a bigger piece of our province’s economic pie, says union leader It was only a matter of time. Whenever the economy […]

Unions are warning Alberta’s employment minister they will take the government to court if it doesn’t change labour-relations rules that contravene a recent Supreme Court ruling. The Alberta Federation of […]

KEVIN NEWMAN: Well with so many of us returning to the habit of waking to an alarm clock again, a new survey of Canadian workers on this Labour Day showing […]

EDMONTON – Unions are warning Alberta’s employment minister that they will take the government to court if it doesn’t change labour relations rules that contravene a recent Supreme Court ruling. […]

Days after Alberta’s labour market was declared tops in North America, 125,000 of its unionized workers are demanding a review of provincial labour legislation they say is weak and unconstitutional. […]

It was only a matter of time. Whenever the economy heats up, business people reward themselves with bigger salaries and hefty bonuses. “We’ve earned it,” they tell themselves as they […]

It was only a matter of time. Whenever the economy heats up, business people reward themselves with bigger salaries and hefty bonuses. “We’ve earned it,” they tell themselves as they […]

This Labour Day long weekend, the Alberta Federation of Labour is calling on Iris Evans, Minister of Employment, Industry and Immigration, to establish a review of Alberta labour relations legislation […]

Ernesto Rodarte, a foreign worker from Mexico, says he and other Mexican workers are being exploited by employers even though Calgary is in the middle of a major labour shortage. […]

The announcement of $40 billion worth of new energy industry projects in the past two weeks, including Shell Canada’s plans to spend $27 billion to construct a massive oilsands processing […]

For the first time in a generation, Alberta is facing a general strike within its construction trades that threatens to disrupt its booming oilsands industry and is introducing a new […]

CALGARY – A controversial labour strategy used by Canadian Natural Resource Ltd. to build its oilsands mega-project could be put to the test later this month if 30,000-plus unionized construction […]

Labour Economic Monitor (August 2007) Inflation Alert: Inflation in Alberta is seriously out of control. In June the Consumer Price Index for Alberta was 6.3% higher than one year ago. […]

EDMONTON (CP) _ Striking workers at a century-old Molson Canada brewery will continue to picket despite the company’s decision to shut the plant down, say union officials. ”The closure is […]

Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour is highly critical of the Molson Coors shut-down of its Edmonton plant announced yesterday afternoon. “The American-based Coors Molson Company is closing a […]

The biggest surprise coming out of the provincial Oil Sands Consultation – Multistakeholder Committee Final Report is that the diverse panel reached consensus on 96 of the 120 recommendations. “There […]

CALGARY — This may be the summer of unrest in the West, as thousands of municipal and forestry workers have walked off the job in British Columbia and thousands more […]