Tag: Press Release
AFL president available for comment after budget address
EDMONTON – Audrey Cormack, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, will be available to answer questions from reporters immediately following tomorrow’s provincial budget address. Provincial Treasurer Stockwell Day is […]
Read more »Women Still Marching Towards Equality into the New Millennium
EDMONTON – As women go marching on International Women’s Day in 1999, the Alberta Federation of Labour will be joining them and reflecting on their progress over the past Century […]
Read more »Union leaders join CBC workers on picket line
EDMONTON – Members of the Alberta Federation of Labour’s Executive Council will join the picket line outside the CBC television building this afternoon to show support for striking technical, design […]
Read more »Labour Leader Available to Comment on Throne Speech, Federal Budget
Audrey Cormack, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) will be available to comment on today’s Speech from the Throne and to offer an Alberta perspective on the Federal […]
Read more »Labour Minister Betrays Selection Committee
The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) accused the Minister of Labour today of misleading the public in his announcement of the Labour Relations Board (LRB) appointments. In his announcement yesterday […]
Read more »Social Union marks “the beginning of the end,” says AFL
EDMONTON – The so-called Social Union agreement that was signed yesterday by the Prime Minister and nine provincial premiers could mark the beginning of the end of Canada as we […]
Read more »Albertans pay a heavy price for UI
EDMONTON – Thousands of unemployed Albertans have been left without adequate means of support and hundreds of millions of dollars have been drained away from the Alberta economy – all […]
Read more »Bill 37 poses serious threat to Medicare
EDMONTON – The provincial government’s controversial Bill 37 poses a serious threat to the future of Medicare and should be scrapped, says the Alberta Federation of Labour. That was the […]
Read more »Klein exposes real agenda about private health care, says AFL
Premier Ralph Klein’s call for the provinces and federal government to discuss changes to the Canada Health Act reveals that his real agenda is to permanently entrench private, for-profit hospitals […]
Read more »Labour Unions To Hold Rally In Support of Striking Drywall Workers
Tuesday, January 19 @ 4:30 pmGeorgia Pacific Plant403 – 118A Avenue (see map below) The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is organizing a support rally for striking workers at the […]
Read more »EI system has failed Alberta workers
EDMONTON – The federal government’s new Employment Insurance system has failed to provide working people in Alberta with kind of protection they need and deserve, says Audrey Cormack, president of […]
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