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2011 May Join Together Alberta Campaign Launch
May 26, 2011

Speaking Notes Gil McGowan, President Our current provincial government wants Albertans to believe that these are tough times. They want us to believe that the recession has left them with […]

Wave of school layoffs prompts coalition to launch new province-wide campaign: Join Together Alberta calls on government to fix Alberta’s broken revenue system
May 25, 2011

EDMONTON – In the wake of reports warning that up to 1,200 Alberta teachers may be laid off in the next few months, a province-wide campaign is being launched to […]

Wealthy Voucher Donors Getting Choice Policy Payback: School privatization supporters outspend opponents $3 to $1
May 24, 2011

Madison – Supporters of Milwaukee’s school choice program spent more than $3 million in 2009 and 2010 to help elect Governor Scott Walker and much of the GOP-controlled legislature while […]

Defend trade union rights in Turkey – stop mass criminal indictments of union members and officers!
May 24, 2011

111 trade union leaders and members, including the President of the IUF-affiliated TEKGIDA-İŞ along with four other national officers of the union and 12 branch presidents, and current and former […]

Middle-Class America, Fading Fast
May 24, 2011

Two alarming reports recently out point to long-term trends in the U.S. economy that don’t bode well for maintaining a strong middle class in this nation. Between 1980 and 2009, […]

Lukaszuk says AFL is acting “in poor taste”
May 21, 2011

The Alberta Federation of Labour says Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk is going to leave his cabinet post to run for the provincial PC leadership. The AFL worries, by […]