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Governments report workplace safety is improving over time
May 4, 2011

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 […]

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5,000 Rally in Pa.: Budget Should Not Be Balanced on Backs of Workers
May 4, 2011

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 […]

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A Day in Your Life Without Public Employees
May 4, 2011

Imagine one day you woke up and there were no sanitation workers to pick up the pile of stuff in your trash. No letter carriers or postal workers to move […]

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Battle rages in Calgary’s only open riding
May 2, 2011

It’s the only open race in Calgary — with no incumbent seeking re-election — and now the mad dash to the finish has begun. The five federal hopefuls in Calgary […]

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Workplace injuries: good news and bad: Alberta workplace injuries at a new low, despite tragedy
May 2, 2011

EDMONTON – On the same day news broke of an Alberta worker being killed by deadly gas at a job site, Employment Minister Thomas Lukaszuk said Alberta’s workplace injury rates […]

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Councillor Wyntjes wins May Day Solidarity Award
May 2, 2011

Red Deer city councillor and long-time activist Dianne Wyntjes has received the May Day Solidarity Award, which is given to an Alberta trade unionist every year who has “contributed to […]

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