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Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is taking the opportunity of the 38th United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racism, which is Sunday, March 21, to renew […]

EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour is formally lifting a union-led viewer boycott of A-Channel as workers at the station head back to their jobs today after a grueling […]

EDMONTON – If Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t want to see a “patchwork quilt” of maternity benefits in Canada – generous in places like Quebec and sub-standard in places like […]

Premier Ralph Klein is up to his old tricks. Once again, he’s trying to convince Albertans that Medicare is unsustainable and that the only way to “save” the system is […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour reacted with disappointment early today after the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed with a case against the Labour […]

EDMONTON – What do ordinary Albertans have to show for a decade of unprecedented growth and prosperity in their province? As it turns out, very little. In a new research […]

Something is wrong in Alberta. Over the last decade, while the economy boomed and industry thrived, real wages in the province stagnated. Real wages (adjusted to constant dollars to correct […]

If you were in Edmonton during the week or two before Christmas you can be forgiven for thinking that some miraculous change had transformed Alberta’s political landscape. The headlines in […]

AFL Year-end Message Looking ahead to the New Year, it’s clear the Labour movement will have a lot on its plate. New rules on drug and alcohol testing in the […]

Running to stand still: How Alberta government policy has led to wage stagnation during a time of prosperity Albertans are entitled to ask: “What’s going on? How can the most […]

EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour and the union representing striking A-Channel workers have jointly filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against A-Channel. The unions claim the station attempted to […]

Les Steel, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, November 2003 Good morning. I probably don’t have to tell you that it has not been a banner year for labour […]

Les Steel, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, October 2003 Good morning. It’s been 70 years since Alberta had a government that could even be loosely described as worker […]

EDMONTON – Alberta’s health care system could be thrown into chaos if the province’s nine regional health authorities are successful in their bid to force nurses into binding arbitration, says […]

After nearly two years of on-again, off-again support for a major review of old WCB cases, the Alberta government has finally agreed to open the books on previously rejected claims […]

Les Steel, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, August 2003 (Oslo, Norway) Good morning and thank you for the warm welcome. As you’ve already heard, my name is Les […]

The “pie-that-was-heard-across-the-country” may have been delivered to Premier Ralph Klein early last week – but it had been in the oven for a long time. And the Premier himself had […]

After nearly two years of on-again, off-again support for a major review of old WCB cases, the government has finally agreed to open the books on previously rejected claims covering […]

EDMONTON – Leaders from the Alberta Federation of Labour and two unions representing thousands of forestry workers in the province will meet with Human Resource Minister Clint Dunford this afternoon […]

If you’re finding it more and more difficult to keep up with the bills each month, you’re not alone. Recently released figures show that the amount Albertans earn each week […]

EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour has adopted an aggressive new action plan aimed at helping working Albertans re-discover their collective political power – and convincing them to use […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour is marking National Aboriginal Solidarity Day by strengthening its commitment to promoting aboriginal involvement in the labour movement. “For years now, aboriginal people have faced […]

EDMONTON – The real extent of the classroom carnage caused by on-going government under-funding of education will become apparent tonight when the Edmonton Public School Board debates its budget for […]

It’s not often that Business Week magazine praises unions – still less often that it recommends unions as a model for business. That’s just what happened, however, in that magazine’s […]