Tag: Human Rights

Supreme Court says Irving pulp mill’s random testing policy has ‘severe’ impact on privacy The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a company’s right to impose mandatory, random alcohol testing […]

EDMONTON – The Idle No More movement marked a global day of action Monday with a rally in Churchill Square that saw leaders from a variety of organizations declare solidarity […]

Albertan labour organizations and environmental groups declared their support for the Idle No More movement during a rally in Edmonton Monday. In front of over 100 Idle No More demonstrators […]

Edmontonians packed Allendale Community Hall Sunday evening for a discussion of Idle No More, as communities and organizations worldwide planned for a show of solidarity with the movement on Monday. […]

AFL urges comprehensive plan at event to commemorate 23rd anniversary of tragedy Edmonton – Alberta needs to address pay gap for women, according to AFL president Gil McGowan. On Sunday, […]

Pipe trade students build sign to show collaboration between GBLT community and construction industry. Pipe trade students at SAIT built something that’s the first of its kind at the trade […]

Three former employees of the Mexican Consulate in Vancouver revealed before the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (in Canada) that they had received specific orders from Mexican public service employees […]

Inequality among Alberta’s non-unionized women at “shocking” levels – McGowan Edmonton – Unions are the best cure for the unfair pay gap that exists between men and women working in […]

News of criminal charges being laid in relation to welders and machinists from Poland and Ukraine working in Alberta is more evidence of widespread violation of employment laws and the […]

EDMONTON – Edmonton-Strathcona candidate Linda Duncan is getting widespread support for her call to fix the federal migrant worker program. A new federal policy forcing people who immigrate under the […]

Hypocritical federal Conservatives are reaching out to immigrant Canadians on one hand, but crafting policies that punish them with the other, says Alberta’s largest labour group and Linda Duncan, who […]

Unions applauded a provincial government move Monday to allow temporary foreign workers certified in Alberta’s optional trades to apply directly to the government for permanent residency instead of having to […]

One hundred years after the creation of International Women’s Day, Alberta’s largest labour organization is calling on the provincial government to take immediate action to give women an official voice […]

Big fun in Little Buffalo Union members, human-rights activists and members of the Lubicon Cree took to the ice at the newly opened hockey rink in Little Buffalo at the […]

Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour marked December 6th with a call for employers, supervisors, workers, professional associations and unions to take joint action on domestic violence and its […]

A human rights expert is the keynote speaker at a workshop today, holding up Alberta’s temporary foreign worker program as a failure. Karl Flecker, director of anti-racism and human rights […]

Would you believe that after the G8 meeting held near Calgary in 2002 the Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow complimented the city police on their approach to political activists who […]

There are nearly twice as many temporary foreign workers in Alberta now as there were at the height of the economic boom. Newly released figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada […]

There are nearly twice as many temporary foreign workers in Alberta now as there were at the height of the economic boom. Newly-released figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada show […]

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 […]

Whether there’s a boom or a bust, the economic reality facing women in Alberta is that they are falling further and further behind men. A new study by the Edmonton-based […]

… 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 […]

Domestic Violence is a Workplace Issue: It’s time to make a real commitment to addressing violence against women (April 2009) Policy paper adopted at AFL 46th Constitutional Convention, April 23-26, […]

Entrenching Exploitation: The Second Report of the Alberta Federation of Labour Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate In November 2007, the AFL Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate released “Alberta’s Disposable Workforce” which examined […]