Government accused of ignoring farm workers’ rights The Alberta government’s failure to post its annual report of farm work-related fatalities has brought allegations from the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) […]

Province should give farm workers occupational safeguards The province was called upon again this week to give Alberta farm workers the same protections as those in other occupations, and in […]

Wants review of extraction process More than five million cubic metres of fresh water were allocated for fracking in Alberta last year, the NDP said Tuesday as it renewed calls […]

Union says workers unprotected The Alberta Federation of Labour is criticizing the provincial government for no longer reporting farm fatalities. The federation says the move is an example of how […]

Opposition parties and labour groups are calling on the government to improve farm workers safety. The Alberta NDP and the Alberta Federation of Labour want to know why the government […]

The Alberta government has stopped reporting farm fatalities and labour groups are asking why. “This year when we went to find out how many people had died, because we try […]