EDMONTON – A week after the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 424, blew the whistle on a UCP plan to host an overseas recruitment drive for Temporary Foreign Workers to fill Alberta construction jobs, the Smith government has backed down. The announcement was made quietly on Sunday night, obviously in hopes that the climb…
STATEMENT: Alberta’s budget is a recipe for confrontation with workers and unions
EDMONTON – Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president Gil McGowan made the following statement in response to the Government of