Hawaii Local Bridges Pacific
Mar 6, 2012
More than 3,800 miles of deep Pacific Ocean separate the remote tropical island of Guam and Honolulu, charter city of Local 1260, but that has not stopped the Hawaii-based local […]
‘Burma sanctions must stay’: trade unions
Mar 6, 2012
Burma must take significant steps to end human rights abuses, especially forced labour, before the EU can consider easing further sanctions against Burma, a leading British union body has warned. […]
Tories accused of muzzling critics
Mar 3, 2012
Catholic board warned comments could delay new school decision A culture of “political extortion” practised by the Alberta government has been laid bare in a recent letter from northern Conservative […]
Braid: MLA Goudreau’s letters inconvenient proof of Tory practices
Mar 3, 2012
CALGARY — Tory MLA Hector Goudreau stepped in one huge cow pie when he told a northern school board last month that offending the wrong people could delay funding for […]
Alberta’s woes: too many jobs, not enough people to fill them
Mar 2, 2012
EDMONTON – With an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, Alberta currently fares better than any other Canadian province. But despite being fairly insulated from the economic turmoil plaguing the rest […]
Expanding TFW program an attack on workers, says labour group
Mar 1, 2012
A reasonable pace of oil-sands development would mean more jobs for Albertans, says AFL Calls to expand the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Alberta are a move to unfairly […]