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Government Strips Unions of Decision Making Power at the Local Authorities Pension Board
Jan 22, 2008

Background Recent changes at the Local Authorities Pension Plan have put at risk the pension benefits of 125,000 Alberta municipal, health care and education workers – including rights to early […]

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Union Coalition Takes Legal Action to Overturn Changes to Governance of Alberta Local Authorities Pension Plan
Dec 19, 2007

EDMONTON – A coalition of important Alberta unions and the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) will commence legal action today to overturn recent changes in the rules governing activities of […]

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Government Foreign Worker Office Long Overdue – But Still Misses The Point
Dec 10, 2007

Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour reacted with guarded optimism to the Government’s new measures announced today to protect temporary foreign workers. The two special advisory offices for temporary […]

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Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate Releases 6-Month Report
Nov 29, 2007

Media Availability 2:30 p.m., Salon A, Chateau Lacombe Crowne Plaza (10111 Bellamy Hill) (Copies of the report are available this morning at www.afl.org) EDMONTON-The Alberta Federation of Labour today released […]

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Alberta Clipper Pipeline Will Create Only Two Permanent Jobs in Alberta – Versus the Thousands That Will Be Created in U.S. as They Refine Alberta Oil Sands
Nov 6, 2007

CALGARY-The proposed Alberta Clipper Pipeline is expected to create only two full-time permanent jobs in the province, admitted Enbridge Pipeline’s executive under cross examination in front of the National Energy […]

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Stop Building Bitumen Highways to the U.S.
Nov 5, 2007

CALGARY – Starting today and continuing tomorrow, lawyers representing the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) will grill executives from Enbridge Pipelines on their plans to build yet another massive “bitumen […]

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