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PRESS RELEASE: AFL Stands with Education Workers on #paintABpurple Day
Sep 20, 2023

Education support staff have been suffering through an eight-year pay freeze EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) voiced its backing for education support workers today on #paintABpurple day. […]

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STATEMENT: Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan on Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ events
Sep 20, 2023

EDMONTON – Today’s anti-2SLGBTQIA+ events are a political tactic. The shadowy, far-right operatives who are behind these events want free publicity for their toxic and hateful fringe ideas – ideas […]

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MCGOWAN COLUMN: “The last thing Alberta workers need this Labour Day is more denial from politicians”
Sep 3, 2023

Alberta workers have a plan for the global energy transition; Smith offers only fear and spin. AFL president Gil McGowan has written a special column for Labour Day on The […]

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STATEMENT: “Stop playing politics with our jobs and with our collective future.”
Aug 9, 2023

AFL president calls on UCP to rescind renewables moratorium EDMONTON – Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan issued the following statement on the UCP’s moratorium on renewables development: “The […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Massive interest rate hikes are the “definition of class warfare”: McGowan
Jul 12, 2023

WINNIPEG – Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president, Gil McGowan, released the following statement in response to the Bank of Canada’s raise in interest rates by 25 basis points: “The […]

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PRESS RELEASE: AFL president Gil McGowan speaking up for Alberta workers at Premiers’ meeting
Jul 11, 2023

WINNIPEG — Workers and families are looking to Canada’s premiers to work with the labour movement for concrete action to fix health care, make life more affordable and ensure good, […]

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