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Dreeshen took COVID-19 safety equipment from emergency workers to give to meatpacking plants, documents suggest – AFL

Apr 16, 2021

Minister Dreeshen interfered with Alberta’s emergency response while packing plant ran without PPE EDMONTON – Minister Dreeshen’s office interfered with the provincial emergency response to COVID-19 to take personal protective […]

AFL worried about UCP’s true intentions as Kenney government moves to abolish apprenticeship board – AFL

Apr 14, 2021

Bill 67 will give minister unprecedented power – and unions don’t trust him to use it wisely EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour is skeptical and worried by the […]

AFL president demands vaccinations for front line workers – AFL

Apr 12, 2021

EDMONTON – The president of Alberta’s largest worker advocacy organization, the Alberta Federation of Labour, is demanding that the Kenney government add education workers, grocery store workers, group home workers […]

Starting tomorrow, employers will no longer be required to keep injured workers on benefit plans or hire them back when they recover – AFL

Mar 31, 2021

On April 1, 2021 several parts of the UCP’s disastrous Bill 47 come into force, further weakening Alberta’s Workers’ Compensation system. EDMONTON – Although the UCP originally passed this legislation […]

Ministers Dreeshen and Copping should be fired and a public inquiry called into the UCP’s response to COVID-19 in meatpacking plants, says AFL – AFL

Mar 30, 2021

Documents obtained by the AFL show that UCP dangerously bungled COVID-19 response at Cargill EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour is calling for the UCP’s Agriculture and Labour Ministers […]

Gil McGowan, Opening Remarks on Bill 208 Hearing – March 08, 2021 – AFL

Mar 12, 2021

I’ve been asked here today because I’m the president of the Federation of Labour; chair of the Labour Coalition on Pensions; and chair of the sponsor board of Alberta’s largest […]

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