Getting Serious: The Role of Unions in Alberta’s Changing Political Landscape (April 2011)

AFL political action paper presented to AFL 47th Constitutional Convention, April 28 to May 1, 2011

Over the past five or six years, the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) has significantly improved its ability to influence the debate over important issues of public policy within the province. Issues like workplace health and safety, the use (and abuse) of temporary foreign
workers and the job implications of exporting raw bitumen were our issues first – but they have now become major items for discussion by policy makers, the media and the broader public.