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PRESS RELEASE: Unions demand seats on the AIMCo board and a return to “Optionality”
Nov 20, 2024

Message to UCP: “This is not your government’s money.” EDMONTON – The leaders of nine of Alberta’s largest unions, representing hundreds of thousands of Albertans workers, have sent Premier Danielle […]

STATEMENT: AFL supports striking postal workers
Nov 15, 2024

EDMONTON – After a year at the bargaining table with no movement, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is striking. Their demands are beyond reasonable: fair wages, safe working conditions, […]

STATEMENT: AFL’s Gil McGowan Statement on CUPE work action in Fort McMurray
Nov 13, 2024

FORT McMURRAY – Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), made the following statement in response to the job action taken by the members of the Canadian […]

PRESS RELEASE: Serious Concerns over Government’s decision to sack AIMCo Board
Nov 8, 2024

EDMONTON – Albertans deserve answers on the UCP government’s decision to fire the board of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), says Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president Gil McGowan. […]

PRESS RELEASE: UCP moves to strip health care workers of their freedom to protest
Nov 6, 2024

New law is clearly designed to stop Albertans from exercising their democratic right to picket and protest, says AFL EDMONTON – The UCP government plans to strip rights from Alberta health […]

PRESS RELEASE: The state of the province under Smith’s UCP is pretty grim
Oct 30, 2024

“Don’t believe the hype in Smith’s State of the Province address,” says McGowan EDMONTON – Premier Danielle Smith’s “State of the Province” address to the business lobby in Alberta’s capital, […]