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Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan believes as many as 60,000 jobs could be lost as a result of provincial government cuts. (CBC) Provincial government spending cuts could result […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is predicting up to 60,000 job losses when the Tory government unveils the spring budget next month. AFL’s president Gil McGowan told media Monday […]

EDMONTON – Alberta’s Tory government and a major labour group are sparring over potential job losses that will result when a tight-fisted provincial budget is tabled next month. The Alberta […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour says their people crunched the government’s spending cut numbers and found nothing but a job crisis ahead. Gil McGowan, with the AFL, says their new […]

As many as 60,000 jobs could be lost because of provincial government budget cuts, warns the Alberta Federation of Labour in a report released Monday. The document titled Worse Than […]

EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour estimates as many as 60,000 jobs could be lost if the government cuts billions from the provincial budget next month. The number of […]

Join Together Alberta – a coalition campaign to save Alberta’s public services. The Join Together Alberta campaign was conceived and launched jointly by a number of Alberta unions and union […]

Deep public-sector spending cuts will kill tens of thousands of private-sector jobs, along with public ones The Stelmach government will stifle Alberta’s fragile recovery and create its own made-in-Alberta recession […]

Premier Ed Stelmach’s new cabinet members are to be sworn in this morning at Government House but the attack on one new minister has already begun. Public service organizations are […]

As Premier Ed Stelmach warned Thursday that Albertans should brace for a leaner budget, his new finance minister issued his own missive: The province’s all-you-can-eat spending buffet is about to […]

Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour says there’s growing public opposition to planned government cuts. (CBC)A coalition of 10 unions and lobby groups launched a new campaign Friday […]

CALGARY – Suncor’s decision this week to unwind its natural-gas business points to what could be a permanent structural shift that highlights the decreasing competitiveness of Alberta’s natural gas patch, […]

EDMONTON – Premier Ed Stelmach softened the face of his government’s health reforms and signalled a shift to the fiscal right in a cabinet shuffle Wednesday. With his party falling […]

Alberta’s public service in jeopardy, McGowan says Alberta Federation of Labour president, Gil McGowan, expressed grave concern over Premier Ed Stelmach’s pick for Finance Minister in his new cabinet announced […]

The premier officially announced the cabinet shuffle on Wednesday. As predicted, Ron Liepert has been removed from the health portfolio and will now serve as minister of energy. The new […]

EDMONTON – Premier Ed Stelmach is overhauling Alberta’s 24-member cabinet in attempt to turn around his Progressive Conservative government’s sagging popularity. Fiscal hawk Ted Morton moves to finance, where the […]

CALGARY- Suncor’s decision to unwind its natural gas business points to what could be a permanent structural shift that highlights the decreasing competitiveness of Alberta’s natural gas patch, observers said […]

Recovery could be smothered in its infancy by provincial budget and job cuts, warns AFL Year-end employment figures released this morning by Statistics Canada paint a picture of an Alberta […]

EDMONTON – As the latest employment figures were released Friday, government critics suggest Finance Minister Iris Evans was looking through “rose-coloured glasses” last year when she predicted just 15,000 Albertans […]

A retired lawyer’s legal fight with the city and EPCOR ended after his lawsuit challenging EPCOR’s multibillion-dollar sale of their power-generating assets was dismissed in court yesterday. “I think I’ve […]

Polls have consistently shown that Albertans want to keep valuable oilsands upgrading and refining jobs in the province instead of shipping them down a pipeline to processing facilities in the […]

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Alberta’s unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 per cent in November as 12,800 people found jobs –the largest monthly increase since October 2008. The provincial jobless rate dropped 0.1 percentage […]

Labour leader in Calgary today to talk to Alberta manufacturing workers, one of the groups hardest hit by recession Please note that, due to weather conditions in Alberta today, Gil […]