Alberta’s employment minister says safety inspectors are fanning out across the province for a month-long safety sweep focused on inexperienced employees and the places they work. Speaking at Bumpy’s Cafe […]

In 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin became the third city in America to guarantee workers paid sick leave, joining Washington D.C. and San Fransisco. These cities are stepping up to fill a […]

The disappointing results of a recent blitz of forklift-safety inspections should come as no surprise to Alberta’s employment minister, says the province’s largest labour organization. “We have told Employment and […]

A recent series of workplace safety blitzes by occupational health and safety inspectors has confirmed there are serious safety problems in Alberta workplaces – but this approach is doing little […]

Labour unions in British Columbia and Alberta held ceremonies April 28 to remember workers who have been killed on the job, while the governments in both provinces say injury rates […]

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO communications team, Jim Deegan and Karen Gownley, sent us this report. Some 5,000 private- and public-sector union workers came together in Harrisburg, Pa., yesterday to rally for […]