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What’s happened to the full-time jobs? asks AFL in wake of latest job figures
Dec 4, 2009

Labour leader in Calgary today to talk to Alberta manufacturing workers, one of the groups hardest hit by recession Please note that, due to weather conditions in Alberta today, Gil […]

MLAs freeze wages again, but Tories reject pay review
Dec 4, 2009

MLA wages will be frozen for a second straight year but an all-party committee– dominated by Tories–has rejected a proposal to strike up an independent panel to review politicians’ pay […]

Edmonton mourning the loss of activist
Nov 28, 2009

Hundreds of Edmontonians are gathering today to celebrate the life of an active labour activist in our community. Thomas Olenuk most recently served as the president of the Edmonton and […]

Labour activist Olenuk mourned
Nov 27, 2009

Thomas Olenuk, a well-known union activist who was most recently president of the Edmonton and District Labour Council, has died at the age of 57. Thomas Olenuk, 57, was a […]

Government case of $2 billion in cuts is a shaky one: Cutting jobs and services isn’t justified by the numbers and will inflict further pain on a labour force that’s already hurting
Nov 27, 2009

The president of Alberta’s largest union advocacy organization is baffled as to why the Stelmach government seems determined to cut public sector jobs and services even though the province’s fiscal […]

Deeper Transformation: “Greening” capitalism is not enough to fix the climate
Nov 19, 2009

As the next round of international climate change talks in Copenhagen approaches, the Canadian and Alberta governments are both doing everything they can to reinforce their long-standing position that doing […]