Tag: temporary foreign workers
Government Foreign Worker Office Long Overdue – But Still Misses The Point
Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour reacted with guarded optimism to the Government’s new measures announced today to protect temporary foreign workers. The two special advisory offices for temporary […]
Read more »Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate Releases 6-Month Report
Media Availability 2:30 p.m., Salon A, Chateau Lacombe Crowne Plaza (10111 Bellamy Hill) (Copies of the report are available this morning at www.afl.org) EDMONTON-The Alberta Federation of Labour today released […]
Read more »Temporary Foreign Workers: Alberta’s disposable workforce
Temporary Foreign Workers: Alberta’s disposable workforce (The Six-Month Report of the AFL’s Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate) An analysis of the 123 files handled by the Advocate reveals a troubling picture […]
Read more »Labour Economic Monitor (October 2007)
Labour Economic Monitor (October 2007) As the economic boom in Alberta reached its crest over the last two years, employers and the business media alerted the public to a new […]
Read more »Union leader challenges Monte
EDMONTON – Just because more and more employers are clamoring for access to easy-to-exploit temporary foreign workers doesn’t mean the government should ignore the broader public interest and give them […]
Read more »Alberta bound; Foreign workers vulnerable to exploitation
Ernesto Rodarte, a foreign worker from Mexico, says he and other Mexican workers are being exploited by employers even though Calgary is in the middle of a major labour shortage. […]
Read more »Energy plans stoke labour crisis; Mega-projects need 40,000 workers
The announcement of $40 billion worth of new energy industry projects in the past two weeks, including Shell Canada’s plans to spend $27 billion to construct a massive oilsands processing […]
Read more »Oilpatch risks turn from value creation to value destruction; Comment; Everybody Wants A Bigger Cut Of The Booming Industry
For the first time in a generation, Alberta is facing a general strike within its construction trades that threatens to disrupt its booming oilsands industry and is introducing a new […]
Read more »Agreement hopes to clarify foreign worker program
The temporary foreign worker program is perhaps the most contentious labour issue in the oilsands but a new provincial and federal government agreement is expected to clarify its parameters. “We’ll […]
Read more »Stop work order lifted
A union leader says the province has quietly lifted a stop work order imposed on an oilsands tank construction site in northern Alberta after two workers died. Gil McGowan, president […]
Read more »Alberta develops energy industry work force plan
Alberta yesterday published a new “work force strategy” to attract more workers to the province’s booming energy industry. The project, which involved industry, proposed 46 ideas to recruit, retain and […]
Read more »Strategy Aims To Stem Alberta’s Worker Shortfall
A worker shortfall in the energy industry could stall Alberta’s motoring economy, although government and industry representatives outlined plans Tuesday to grapple with the problem. Officials unveiled a 10-year workforce […]
Read more »Ottawa targets exploitation of foreign workers; Alberta, feds sign pact to push for fair treatment
With labourers pouring into Alberta from around the world in increasing numbers, Ottawa says it’s exploring strict new penalties to crack down on businesses or other organizations that abuse temporary […]
Read more »Ottawa considers penalties to protect foreign workers
Ottawa is eyeing new fines and penalties to protect temporary foreign workers whose rights are being trampled by “unscrupulous” employers and labour brokers, federal Human Resources Development Minister Monte Solberg […]
Read more »Foreign worker woes; A federal program is providing desperately needed labour for Alberta employers — but at a severe price for many workers
Mexican worker Angel Hernandez decided three decades ago he would someday come to Canada, after he saw a street dog gobble up a hamburger. Hernandez was working in a popular […]
Read more »AFL sets up Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate Office
The Alberta Federation of Labour is creating a new Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate Office to help protect the basic human and workplace rights of vulnerable foreign workers in the province. […]
Read more »Relaxed Foreign Worker Rules Will Lead to More Abuse of System, says AFL
The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) responded to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Monte Solberg’s announcement this morning that the federal government will be relaxing rules for the importing of temporary […]
Read more »Increased use of guest workers wrong approach in tight labour market
So, federal Immigration Minister Monte Solberg is tired of waiting in line to get his double-double at Tim Horton’s. For those who missed it, that was one of the rationales […]
Read more »Construction Letter to PM Calling for More Foreign Workers Is Self-interested, Self-Serving
In an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week, the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) makes a series of recommendations it claims will address the problem of “labour shortages” […]
Read more »Conference Board Report “Ludicrous” in its Labour Shortage Estimates
The Alberta Federation of Labour reacted swiftly today to the release of a new Conference Board of Canada report saying that by 2025, Alberta will have an annual shortfall of […]
Read more »Temporary Foreign Workers a “Lose-Lose” Proposition
EDMONTON-The Alberta Federation of Labour, Alberta’s largest labour organization, released today a formal policy statement on the controversial issue of temporary foreign workers. The statement is jointly crafted by the […]
Read more »It’s not racism, it’s union-busting
Re: “Trades groups taken to task for ‘racist overtones’,” Al Duerr, Opinion, April 28. When it comes to public debates, one of the oldest tricks in the book is to […]
Read more »Real Issue is union-busting, not racism
When it comes to public debates, one of the oldest tricks in the book is to attack your opponent’s character and question his motives. If you can successfully paint the […]
Read more »Oilsands Project to Import Chinese Workers – May Breach Rules Regarding Foreign Workers
EDMONTON-Documents released by the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) and Alberta Building Trades Council (ABTC) show that Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), the lead partner in the Horizon oil sands […]
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