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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 […]

Temporary Foreign Workers: Alberta’s disposable workforce
Nov 2, 2007

Temporary Foreign Workers: Alberta’s disposable workforce (The Six-Month Report of the AFL’s Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate) An analysis of the 123 files handled by the Advocate reveals a troubling picture […]

Conference Board Gets it Wrong on Wages
Oct 30, 2007

The Alberta Federation of Labour responded today to a Conference Board of Canada study, released this morning, stating that wages across Canada are on the rise due to wage pressure […]

No need to be sucked in by Big Oil’s Big Jobs Scare
Oct 25, 2007

If anyone is “over the barrel” at the bargaining table, it’s Big Oil, not Albertans I agree and would add that the Premier should also start thinking like a negotiator. […]

It’s Big Oil ‘over the barrel’ in bargaining
Oct 25, 2007

As the clock ticks down towards Premier Ed Stelmach’s pivotal announcement on energy royalties, many groups and individuals have been urging the government to heed former premier Peter Lougheed’s advice […]

High Court Overturns Labour Board Decision
Oct 18, 2007

EDMONTON-In an important and strongly-worded decision released yesterday, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned a controversial Labour Relations Board (LRB) decision which allowed Finning International in 2005 to rid itself […]