Tag: AFL in the News

Leticia Gladue is a little embarrassed to admit it, but her bathroom at home is an outhouse. Dawn Seeseequon has no running water in her home so she showers at […]

Thirteen Albertans died of farm-related injuries last year, including a six-year-old boy who was kicked in the head by a horse and a 76-year-old woman who was crushed by a […]

EDMONTON – Hundreds of chanting protesters from across the province marched through downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on Saturday, demanding the provincial government stop spending cuts to public services. […]

Hundreds of people gathered at the Alberta legislature on Saturday afternoon to protest cuts to public services. Chanting “Save Our Services,” the protesters carried signs warning of cuts to funding […]

Workers in Alberta helped to prevent more severe cuts from happening in the 2010 Alberta budget, but the work is not over for the unions, advocacy groups, students and individuals […]

TORONTO, ONT–The violation of the workplace rights of many Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in Alberta “reinforces what we’ve reported for years now,” says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW […]

The amount of oilsands bitumen being upgraded in Alberta continues to sink — leaving the government well short of its target — with Syncrude the latest in a growing number […]

The Minister of Employment and Immigration Thomas Lukaszuk announced recently that minimum wage in the province would remain at $8.80 per hour, dismantling a system of wage increase less than […]

The construction industry had the highest number of workplace fatalities of any sector in Alberta in 2009, but this figure is the lowest in the last five years. Alberta’s Ministry […]

It’s tough enough running a public sector union in a province like Alberta, where fat cats get a pass and working stiffs the straight-arm. So when the provincial government’s latest […]

Alberta’s progressives should stop defending the status quo and start defining their own visions for provincial policy, the head of the left-wing Parkland Institute said Saturday. In a fiery address […]

With the new provincial budget freshly on the table, and budget cuts expected once the details are unveiled later this month, the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, in conjunction with […]

The theory that new Alberta finance minister Ted Morton was put in place to placate the fiscal hawks and play the cold-eyed budget-slasher-a zombie Steve West-was always dubious. I’m not […]

While the provincial government is lauding its decision to freeze minimum wage, one labour group claims the government is playing politics with the wages of low income earners. The province […]

Massive cuts are coming and the public shouldn’t idly stand by, according to a town hall meeting last night. Held at the Quality Hotel and hosted by the newly-formed Join […]

EDMONTON – When Fazal Hussein found out that Alberta’s minimum wage was frozen Friday, he thought: “Great. Food stamps, here I come.” The 19-year-old clothing retailer wants to get his […]

Minimum-wage earners in Alberta won’t see any salary hike as the province on Friday announced a freeze for 2010, keeping workers’ hourly pay at $8.80. While the Canadian Federation of […]

For the first time in years, fewer Albertans lost their lives last year in work-related deaths as a global recession slowed production and squeezed people out of tens of thousands […]

… In Vancouver, No One is Illegal (NOII), a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant and refugee rights collective, aligns its goals with those of La Via Campesina. Immigration is not a topic […]

The province’s largest union is warning up to 60,000 jobs are at risk if the Alberta government cuts billions of dollars from its upcoming budget. “It’s clear to us that […]

Stelmach government’s Feb. 9 budget could cost up to 60,000 jobs, the fallout being even greater in the private sector than the public sector. – Gil McGowan. Edmonton (27 Jan. […]

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 jobs lost […]

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 Federation of […]

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 […]