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 […]

Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour is highly critical of the Molson Coors shut-down of its Edmonton plant announced yesterday afternoon. “The American-based Coors Molson Company is closing a […]

The biggest surprise coming out of the provincial Oil Sands Consultation – Multistakeholder Committee Final Report is that the diverse panel reached consensus on 96 of the 120 recommendations. “There […]