Tag: Collective Bargaining

Issue: 48,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been locked out by Canada Post Actions Requested: Help them on the picket lines in your area. In […]

Local urban Canada Post workers are solidly on the picket line now after Canada Post locked them out Tuesday night. That’s a change from Tuesday morning when striking workers in […]

Using legislation to force employees back to work will not bring labour peace or prosperity to Air Canada, says the Alberta Federation of Labour. “The only way to secure a […]

Issue: CAW Local 2002 members at Air Canada will hit the picket lines at Calgary and Edmonton International Airports on the morning of Tuesday, June 14 Actions Requested: Join the […]

As postal workers walked picket lines in the Edmonton and Calgary areas today (Wednesday), Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president Gil McGowan said Albertans should support the fight for a […]

Issue: CUPW members in Calgary and Edmonton area hit picket lines last night (Tuesday, June 7th) for a 24-hour strike Actions Requested: Join the picket line until 9 p.m. in […]

Striking workers at the St. Albert Post Office returned to work this morning (Friday) after being ordered to end their wildcat walkout by the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). The […]

Issue: Postal Workers Need Your Help – TODAY! Actions Requested: Support the CUPW picket line at 131 – 1 Herbert Road, St. Albert When: April 13, 2011 – Immediately Your […]

Information picket lines have gone up at the Canada Post distribution centre in St. Albert after rural and suburban mail carriers walked off the job. “Our members are furious over […]

Say ‘No’ to private health care! At 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 10, those who value public health care can join a rally organized by Friends of Medicare at the […]

Members of UFCW 1118 who work at Canada Malting in Calgary began strike action on August 24, after voting by 80% to reject the company’s final offer. A total of […]

After 66 days on the picket line, members of UFCW 401 at McKesson Canada are going back to work. On Sept. 1, they voted 83 per cent in favour of […]

After nearly eight weeks walking the line, strikers remain as strong as ever at McKesson Canada facilities in Edmonton. Now it’s time to show them the strength of your support! […]

Members of General Teamsters Local 362 boosted picket line spirits at McKesson Canada in Edmonton last week, dropping by with a big rig to show their support for UFCW 401 […]

McKesson Canada workers hit the picket lines in Edmonton 213 members of UFCW 401 at McKesson Canada in Edmonton are on strike, with the issues including wage parity with employees […]

Issue: McKesson Canada workers on the picket line in Edmonton; 213 members of UFCW 401 are now on strike Action Requested: Join the workers on two picket lines. When: Today […]

Issue: First Collective Agreement for Park Operations Workers at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. Actions Requested: Volunteers needed immediately to help with leafletting; also get your members to attend rally […]

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 […]

Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour Good evening and thank you all for coming. We’ve organized this rally tonight to send a message to Telus. And based […]

Numerous trucks and employee vehicles were kept out of the Safeway distribution centre by striking workers on Labour Day, an act the Alberta Labour Relations Board deemed “unlawful” late Monday […]

EDMONTON – While the first day of picketing shut down work inside a major Canada Safeway distribution centre and ice-cream plant in west Edmonton, the effects of the strike and […]

Say No to Old Dutch Chips Rather than bargain fairly, Old Dutch Chips on March 30 locked out 170 workers at its Calgary plant. The workers are simply looking for […]

EDMONTON – Today’s news that Maple Leaf Foods is abusing temporary foreign workers at its poultry plant in Edmonton and attempting to use them as pawns to drive wages down […]

This Labour Day, wage-earning Albertans should resolve to grab a bigger piece of our province’s economic pie, says union leader It was only a matter of time. Whenever the economy […]