PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS: Joining together brings success: Join Together Alberta redoubles efforts to change this year’s provincial budget

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 […]

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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 […]

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Students pay the price for Tory indifference

EDMONTON – The real extent of the classroom carnage caused by on-going government under-funding of education will become apparent tonight when the Edmonton Public School Board debates its budget for […]

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Fiscal Management Commission Report Means $2 Billion in Cutbacks, says AFL

The Alberta Federation of Labour responded to the release of “Moving From Good to Great”, the final report of the Financial Management Commission, by pointing out it is just more […]

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Tories Stab Teachers in the Back, Says AFL

The Education Services Settlement Act, introduced today in the Legislature, is an affront to the principles of fair collective bargaining, says the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL). The Premier has […]

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Government still refusing to acknowledge serious problems facing Alberta

EDMONTON – Yesterday’s Throne Speech was much like the Conservative’s recent election campaign – long on reassuring rhetoric and short on substance, says Audrey Cormack, president of the Alberta Federation […]

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