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BLOG: Workers demanded better in budget 2023 – but they didn’t get it
Mar 3, 2023

Huge Revenue growth shows little benefit for working Albertans. Workers have been demanding better from the UCP government Staffing shortages and cuts are impacting workplaces. Inflation and price gouging has […]

PRESS RELEASE: Workers are demanding better after budget falls short
Feb 28, 2023

Health and Education ignored in face of massive, sustained, surpluses EDMONTON – Today’s Alberta budget failed to undo UCP damage to the health care system and public services, according to […]

PRESS RELEASE: UCP can’t fix nursing crises of its own making
Feb 18, 2023

Paltry measures won’t make up the 9,300 nurse shortfall EDMONTON – The UCP’s attempts to make up for nursing staff shortages may fall well short of what Alberta needs, according […]

Win for Workers
Unions win pension fight with for-profit health-care corporation
Feb 17, 2023

The Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are encouraged by a Labour Relations Board decision that private companies must abide by existing […]

BLOG: We’ll be short thousands of nurses in the next few years. Alberta needs to step up.
Feb 16, 2023

The Alberta government forecasts that we’ll be short nearly 9,300 registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, nursing supervisors, and licensed practical nurses by the year 2030. That’s according to the government’s […]

PRESS RELEASE: Does the UCP have a secret plan to cut the minimum wage in rural Alberta?
Feb 14, 2023

There are good reasons to believe that’s exactly what they’re considering, says labour leader EDMONTON – The president of Alberta’s largest worker advocacy group, the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), […]