Alberta’s booming economy, huge influx of workers and lack of safety training on some job sites are causing more workplace accidents among young employees, and too often costing them their […]

A new study released by the Alberta Federation of Labour says the Trade Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) will dumb down trade qualifications. The study claims the agreement opens […]

A union leader says the province has quietly lifted a stop work order imposed on an oilsands tank construction site in northern Alberta after two workers died. Gil McGowan, president […]

Help may soon be on the way for the province’s growing energy sector in the form of a collaborative approach addressing labour shortages. A Workforce Strategy for Alberta’s Energy Sector, […]

Alberta faces a potentially crippling shortage of workers that could stall development of multi-billion-dollar oilsands projects and the economy at large, government and industry officials said Tuesday. Government forecasts say […]

Alberta yesterday published a new “work force strategy” to attract more workers to the province’s booming energy industry. The project, which involved industry, proposed 46 ideas to recruit, retain and […]