Tag: Health Care
Start moving forward,’ Alberta left urged: Parkland Institute head tells progressives to lay out their education and health-care vision for province
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 […]
Read more »Public Works! Alberta’s public services work … for all of us
Public Works! Alberta’s public services work … for all of us Whether it’s the best of time or the worst of times, the public sector is vital to the health […]
Read more »Alberta PCs will be under pressure at Red Deer Convention
Pressure will be on delegates at Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party convention in Red Deer on Nov. 7 to halt the province’s funding cuts to health care, education and other social […]
Read more »October 2009: Attacks on health care; EI failing working people in Alberta; Pension reform; Send Old Dutch a message
Wrong Way! Stelmach vows to proceed with attacks on health care … In his recent televised address to the province, Premier Ed Stelmach vowed to press on with plans for […]
Read more »Alberta Premier to reveal budget plans over airwaves: Stelmach’s pre-taped speech will address strategy for balancing finances in timely fashion and touch on health care and seniors
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach will take to the airwaves this week to deliver a plan to return the ailing province to a balanced budget in a “reasonable period of time.” […]
Read more »May 2009: Say No to Old Dutch Chips; Keep Energy Jobs in Alberta; Green Jobs; Friends of Medicare Rally
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 […]
Read more »Public Health Care Rally
When: May 9, 2009 @ 1:30pm Where: Alberta Legislature, Edmonton Join David Eggen and his special guests for this important event! This is shaping up to be a big event, […]
Read more »Health Care (2009)
Health Care (April 2009) Policy paper adopted at AFL 46th Constitutional Convention, April 23-26, 2009
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 »Health tops Tory agenda: Legislature set for new session
Alberta’s health minister will announce plans this week for reshaping the provincial medical system in the face of rising costs and hospital overcrowding, but the fate of health regions won’t […]
Read more »2007 April Statement Responding to New LRB Protocol on Consultations with Government
Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Just under four years ago, the Alberta government introduced and passed a controversial law that radically altered […]
Read more »AFL Wins Key Victory in Ongoing Bill 27 Scandal
The Information and Privacy Commissioner today ordered the Alberta Labour Relations Board (LRB) to release approximately 200 records to the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) pertaining to the drafting of […]
Read more »Lack of Transparency, Accountability at Labour Relations Board Creates “Crisis in Confidence”
EDMONTON-The AFL today released a study conducted by Dr. Lorne Sossin, Associate Dean of Law at the University of Toronto, examining the conduct of the Alberta Labour Relations Board in […]
Read more »Unions urged to make common cause with employers in opposing Third Way
As members of the provincial government caucus prepare to gather in Calgary tomorrow for a meeting that could decide the fate of the so-called “Third Way”, the Alberta Federation of […]
Read more »2006 April Presentation Edmonton Chamber of Commerce – Calculating the Real Costs of the Third Way
Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, April 12, 2006 When it comes to politics in Alberta, there really have been only two issues that have dominated public […]
Read more »Proposed “Third Way” in health care could cost Alberta businesses a bundle, says AFL
The so-called Third Way in health care may be Premier Klein’s “hobby horse” – but Health Minister Iris Evans shouldn’t feel obliged to hop on board, says AFL president Gil […]
Read more »The Mystery of the Disappearing Lawyer
EDMONTON-In ongoing revelations in the scandal regarding Bill 27 and the Labour Relations Board (LRB), the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) released documents today contradicting public statements made by Human […]
Read more »AFL wins right to information in Court
[Edmonton] The Alberta Federation of Labour has won the first round in its efforts to force the Alberta Labour Relations Board to release all pertinent documents surrounding Board involvement in […]
Read more »2005 December Speaking Notes AFL All-union Meeting to discuss FOIP Revelations about the Labour Relations Board
Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, December 2, 2005 Two-and-a-half years ago, the Alberta government made some sweeping changes to the labour laws covering health care workers […]
Read more »AFL Goes to Court to Defend Right to Documents
EDMONTON-There are a number of developments today in the scandal involving the Labour Relations Board’s involvement in Bill 27. First, this afternoon, the Privacy Commissioner took the Alberta Federation of […]
Read more »Correcting Clint
EDMONTON-The AFL responded today to comments from Clint Dunford regarding the released emails implicating key Labour Relations Board (LRB) in a scandal regarding the drafting of Bill 27. “Either Minister […]
Read more »LRB “Biased and Compromised”, says AFL
Documents received by the Alberta Federation of Labour show that key figures of the Labour Relations Board (LRB) breached their role by actively participating in the drafting of legislation, and […]
Read more »Alberta government hands responsibility for reforming health care to private insurance companies
EDMONTON – The Klein government’s decision to put out a call for proposals to private insurance companies interested in covering public health services is an act of “breathtaking stupidity”, says […]
Read more »More private health insurance will increase business costs and undermine “Alberta Advantage”
The Alberta government’s decision today to expand the role for private health insurance will result in a less equal health system and millions of dollars in new costs for individual […]
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