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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, […]

PRESS RELEASE: New report shows Albertans have overpaid $24 billion for electricity since 2001, when the province deregulated power generation
Oct 29, 2024

Re-regulating power generation is an obvious way to help address the affordability crisis for working Albertans, says AFL “Affordability is a worker issue – and one of the most obvious […]

BLOG: Education Workers Ready to Strike for Better Wages
Oct 23, 2024

Educational assistants and support staff across Alberta are ready to strike In September, more than a thousand educational assistants, librarians, custodians, maintenance and administrative staff in Fort McMurray schools voted […]