Ernesto Rodarte, a foreign worker from Mexico, says he and other Mexican workers are being exploited by employers even though Calgary is in the middle of a major labour shortage. […]
The announcement of $40 billion worth of new energy industry projects in the past two weeks, including Shell Canada’s plans to spend $27 billion to construct a massive oilsands processing […]
For the first time in a generation, Alberta is facing a general strike within its construction trades that threatens to disrupt its booming oilsands industry and is introducing a new […]
CALGARY – A controversial labour strategy used by Canadian Natural Resource Ltd. to build its oilsands mega-project could be put to the test later this month if 30,000-plus unionized construction […]
Labour Economic Monitor (August 2007) Inflation Alert: Inflation in Alberta is seriously out of control. In June the Consumer Price Index for Alberta was 6.3% higher than one year ago. […]
EDMONTON (CP) _ Striking workers at a century-old Molson Canada brewery will continue to picket despite the company’s decision to shut the plant down, say union officials. ”The closure is […]