Tag: AFL in the News
Alberta government braces for union reaction to labour code changes
The Alberta government is bracing for protests after introducing what critics are calling “anti-union” changes to the province’s labour code. Employment Minister Hector Goudreau has confirmed that extra sheriffs have […]
Read more »Labour Troubles Are Brewing In Alberta
The Alberta government is bracing for protests after introducing what critics are calling anti-union changes to the province’s labour code.Employment Minister Hector Goudreau has confirmed that extra sheriffs have been […]
Read more »Alberta legislature braces for protests over labour code changes
Government officials are so concerned about the potential for strife over changes to Alberta’s labour code that they have beefed up security at the legislature. “We expect individuals to come […]
Read more »Gov’t moves to pass labour amendments
EDMONTON – The Alberta government moved swiftly today towards passing controversial labour code amendments, despite ongoing criticism from labour groups. Just before debate started on Bill 26, the government made […]
Read more »Oilsands pipelines to the US blasted
The president of a national union was “shocked” and “dismayed” this morning to learn of the federal government’s approval of two pipelines via a phone call from Today. A further […]
Read more »All voices deserve a say during elections: Third-party spending restrictions will ensure political parties the only game in town
Provincial NDP Leader Brian Mason thinks it’s unfair that unions outspent his party on television advertising by a margin of more than 10 to one in the recent provincial election. […]
Read more »Same old, same old Liberals’ attempt at reinvention as ‘organic’ as compost
Months after the provincial election, with the closure of the spring legislature session now a beacon of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel, there’s still a lot […]
Read more »Tories eye election reform: Stelmach government accused of silencing dissent
EDMONTON – The Alberta government is considering changes to campaign finance laws that would effectively mute groups such as Albertans for Change, which ran high-priced attack ads during the March […]
Read more »Tories planning to update campaign finance rules
The Alberta government is considering changes to campaign finance laws that would effectively mute groups such as Albertans for Change, which ran high-priced attack ads during the March election, Premier […]
Read more »Taft not about to start new party from scratch
Alberta Liberal Leader Kevin Taft said Wednesday he is open to discussing the future of his party, but dismissed one of his MLA’s moves toward starting a new party. “Trying […]
Read more »Uniting opposition question of choice
Calgary Liberal MLA David Swann has the right idea about solving the malaise of political opposition in Alberta. When he talks in principle about a new political movement, and when […]
Read more »Alberta Liberals split on whether to ditch name: Taft, Swann clash on starting new party
Alberta Liberals are divided over how to reinvigorate an opposition movement that was crushed in the provincial election, with the Grit chief arguing one of his MLA’s proposals to possibly […]
Read more »Unity pact breathes life into politics: Liberals and NDP talk about not competing for ridings, but will it be enough to win?
Two months after their brutal pounding in the last provincial election, Alberta Liberals and New Democrats are looking ahead to the next election — one they might fight together. In […]
Read more »Unions claim provincial statistics underestimate number of employee fatalities
Labour unions in B.C. and Alberta commemorated the 13th International Day of Mourning amid claims that provincial government statistics underestimate the numbers of employees killed. The Alberta Ministry of Employment […]
Read more »Double the income, same earning level for Calgarians
Family income in Calgary this decade has increased by nearly double the national average while the Alberta figure is nearly triple, states a Statistics Canada report. But the numbers also […]
Read more »Recent deaths raise question of workplace safety: Complaints to province have ‘fallen upon deaf ears,’ victim’s wife says
EDMONTON – Not even two years after Lorna Chandler’s husband was crushed in a grain silo at a feedlot near High River, one of his employers also died in a […]
Read more »Health premium savings expected to flow to workers
The elimination of health-care premiums will pump $1 billion annually into the economy beginning next January and some of that cash could wind up in employees’ pockets, say business and […]
Read more »Alta. Liberals press for farm labour standards
Alberta’s provincial opposition is calling for the province’s labour standards code and job safety legislation to include farm workers. Liberal Leader Kevin Taft on Monday called for the Stelmach government […]
Read more »Alberta Labour Groups Mark Day Of Mourning
The provincial government says in 2007, workplace related deaths rose 24 per cent in Alberta to 154 – the highest number in the last decade. On Monday, labour groups are […]
Read more »Man dies in crash with giant truck: Oil sands hauler collides with pickup at Fort McMurray mine site
An oilsands contractor driving a pickup has died after colliding this weekend with a 400-tonne oilsands dump truck on a mine site that prides itself on its clean worker-safety record. […]
Read more »Farm death sparks call for action
The provincial government came under fire in the legislature Wednesday for its lack of workplace safety laws for farm workers, the day after a feedlot owner fell from a silo […]
Read more »Is immigration helping us?: A stunning british study suggests that maybe it isn’t
Globalization has increased acceptance of a multi-racial world and provided endless supplies of skilled and other labour, so what’s not to love about mass immigration? While Canada’s opposition parties quibbled […]
Read more »Be aware of boss: Province launches ad
Just because students across Alberta will soon be moving from classrooms for jobsites, doesn’t mean the learning should stop, according to the province – while the Alberta Federation of Labour […]
Read more »Alberta boom brings more workplace death
Fatal accidents on Alberta job sites increased substantially last year, nudging closer to the alarmingly high occupational death rates recorded during the province’s previous boom of the early 1980s. Safety […]
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