CALGARY — Overreliance on temporary foreign workers to remedy Alberta’s labour shortages will hurt both domestic and imported workforces, local labour and immigration organizations said. The federal government introduced several […]

Daniel Aguirre becomes the seventh Colombian trade unionist killed this year, and the 61st since Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos took office in August 2010. Colombia (07 May 2012) – […]

Pipe trade students build sign to show collaboration between GBLT community and construction industry. Pipe trade students at SAIT built something that’s the first of its kind at the trade […]

AFL joins national coalition of labour, religious and immigrant groups in condemning Harper government’s new approach to TFWs New rules allowing employers to fast track Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and […]

With proposed EI changes, more Canadians will be forced into the kind of bad jobs Flaherty says don’t exist, says AFL Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s shocking comment that there […]

The United Steelworkers Canada (USW) union is marking the 20th anniversary of the fatal Westray mine explosion by renewing its call for increased enforcement of Bill C-45, federal legislation which […]