Tag: Workers’ Rights

Alberta Federation of Labour skeptical of TFW program reviewTories created this monster, can’t be trusted to tame it Edmonton – Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program is broken and despite […]

2012 Submission on Social Policy Framework to AB Govt Human Services

BROOKS, Alta. — Alberta’s labour movement wants a public inquiry into what went wrong at XL Foods’ beef plant in Brooks. It was closed after E. coli contamination was found […]

The Left should remember what the Right has known for years How ironic that the Right seems more aware than the Left of the crucial importance of unions to progressive […]

Re: “Voluntary safety rules for farms ineffective, experts say,” Sept. 18. It is hard to describe how disheartening, how damaging, how dreadful it must be for farm workers and their […]

Issue: RALLY for CEP 52A Edmonton Catholic Support staff Friday, September 21, 2012 at 10:30 AM Edmonton Catholic Support Staff are well into their second week of their strike. Friday’s […]

Literally everybody – and that includes Alberta Premier Alison Redford – knows that permitting an industry to “voluntarily” self-regulate the health and safety of its own workers amounts to a […]

The benefits to the oil industry of Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline may be exaggerated and its costs to the economy and environment underestimated, hearings into the project have […]

The Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) will consider withdrawing from the world’s largest trade union confederation and joining another organization, when the union gathers this week for two separate […]

Issue: Support staff at Edmonton Catholic have overwhelmingly rejected the offer made by their employers, the Edmonton Catholic School Board. The employer refuses to negotiate the second year of wages […]

EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) – Enbridge Inc’s proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada’s Pacific Coast could cost thousands of high-paying refining jobs in Alberta, a labor group warned on Tuesday […]

This Labour Day, working Albertans have a lot to be thankful for. We have the highest wages, the best job prospects and the highest standard of living in Canada. So, […]

This Labour Day, working Albertans have a lot to be thankful for. We have the highest wages, the best job prospects and the highest standard of living in Canada. Life […]

Some of my younger readers may not realize this, but when I was a kid growing up in British Columbia in the 1950s, there was a holiday at the end […]

Edmonton – September 1, 2012 – From September 6 to December 21, a new exhibit at the Provincial Archives of Alberta salutes the achievements and sacrifices of Alberta’s working men […]

Lack of protection for Alberta farm workers was highlighted Aug. 20 by Alberta’s New Democrats and the Alberta Federation of Labour. The two groups used the occasion of the AFL-designated […]

A group representing Alberta’s non-unionized construction industry hopes the results of a new survey will convince the government to make changes to the province’s labour laws. Merit Contractors Association, which […]

The first 100 years The Alberta Federation of Labour is dedicated to improving the lives of Alberta’s working people, union members and non-members alike. We seek to represent all those […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) says the government’s decision to withhold information on farm fatalities is an attempt to move the issue to the back burner and off the […]

Liberal MLA David Swann has called on one snack food company to stop using Alberta-produced potatoes, as child labour in the province’s industry remains unregulated. In Alberta, one member of […]

Issue: UFCW 1118 on strike/lockout for fair wages and working hours since Saturday, August 25, 2012. Actions Requested: Support your sisters and brothers on the picket line at 127 Avenue […]

Government accused of ignoring farm workers’ rights The Alberta government’s failure to post its annual report of farm work-related fatalities has brought allegations from the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) […]

Province should give farm workers occupational safeguards The province was called upon again this week to give Alberta farm workers the same protections as those in other occupations, and in […]

Alberta’s decision to withhold information on farm fatalities is an attempt to move the issue off the public radar, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), an umbrella union […]