Labour Economic Monitor (May 2008)
May 1, 2008
Labour Economic Monitor (May 2008) These are odd times in Alberta. With oil prices on the spot market topping $130/barrel and natural gas prices on the uptrend, you’d expect the […]
Recent deaths raise question of workplace safety: Complaints to province have ‘fallen upon deaf ears,’ victim’s wife says
Apr 30, 2008
EDMONTON – Not even two years after Lorna Chandler’s husband was crushed in a grain silo at a feedlot near High River, one of his employers also died in a […]
Health premium savings expected to flow to workers
Apr 29, 2008
The elimination of health-care premiums will pump $1 billion annually into the economy beginning next January and some of that cash could wind up in employees’ pockets, say business and […]
Alta. Liberals press for farm labour standards
Apr 29, 2008
Alberta’s provincial opposition is calling for the province’s labour standards code and job safety legislation to include farm workers. Liberal Leader Kevin Taft on Monday called for the Stelmach government […]
Alberta Labour Groups Mark Day Of Mourning
Apr 29, 2008
The provincial government says in 2007, workplace related deaths rose 24 per cent in Alberta to 154 – the highest number in the last decade. On Monday, labour groups are […]
Man dies in crash with giant truck: Oil sands hauler collides with pickup at Fort McMurray mine site
Apr 29, 2008
An oilsands contractor driving a pickup has died after colliding this weekend with a 400-tonne oilsands dump truck on a mine site that prides itself on its clean worker-safety record. […]