Tag: Labour Bytes

Last chance to see Ralph Nader and Maude Barlow at Beyond Acute Care Conference You have only until tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday, Feb. 22) to register for the Beyond Acute Care: […]

Register now to see Ralph Nader and Maude Barlow at conference on health care It’s time that seniors and those with disabilities were covered by the medicare umbrella. World-renowned consumer-rights […]

Prairie labour groups defend Canadian Wheat Board The The Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba Federations of Labour united to defend the Canadian Wheat Board against attack from the Harper government. In […]

Unions fight back against biased review of Labour Code The Alberta government has embarked on a biased and secretive review of the province’s Labour Code that threatens to introduce Tea […]

Alberta Tories give away billions of dollars and thousands of jobs The Alberta Progressive Conservative government’s management of the energy industry and provincial finances has come under fire from the […]

Join Together Alberta launches campaign to save education, health and social services Alberta is one of the wealthiest jurisdictions in the world, and yet up to 1,200 teachers and hundreds […]

AFL Convention a success: Read all about it! About 400 delegates and guests attended the AFL convention in Calgary for a packed schedule of events that included: A moving ceremony […]

Widespread violations of child-labour rules revealed in study Tens of thousands of adolescent Albertans are in the workforce – 21 per cent of them in illegal jobs, according to an […]

Workers’ rights under attack! From Wisconsin to Egypt, from Mexico to Canada, the rights of workers are under attack. The right of public-sector unionized workers to bargain collectively has been […]

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 […]

CEP welcomes new members There were 226 reasons that the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada was celebrating on New Year’s Day. That’s the number of new members it […]

Leaks reveal Tory plan to privatize health care Documents leaked to opposition parties show that the government has a hidden agenda to allow more privatization of health care after the […]

AFL demands better health and safety rules The AFL has released a 10-point plan on workplace health and safety (click here for the plan), calling for immediate action from the […]

New poll shows massive support for pension reform More than three quarters of Canadians support increasing Canada Pension Plan benefits, according to a new national survey released today by Canadian […]

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 […]

Welcome to our new website The Alberta Federation of Labour has a new website and is now on Facebook and Twitter. We’d really like you check out the site (let […]

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 […]

Which way will we pay for our vital public services? Despite all the media reports and shrill calls for cuts, Alberta does not have a spending problem, it has a […]

Have your say on health-care reform! The Alberta government is hosting 28 “invitation-only” meetings around the province as it plans sweeping changes to the health-care system. Friends of Medicare, supported […]

Lives of workers put at risk by government The government’s shocking failure to enforce its own workplace safety laws is putting thousands of workers at risk, according to a new […]

Despite all the spin, the recent budget is a cutting budget While the Stelmach government boosted health-care spending and held the line on education spending, in other ministries it was […]

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 […]

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 […]

Entrenching Exploitation: Canada’s Shameful Record on TFWs In its latest report on the working and living conditions of Temporary Foreign Workers, the AFL’s Foreign Worker Advocate reports that things are […]