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…
Canada’s Building Trades Unions Celebrates the Liberal Government’s Spring Economic Update
OTTAWA – The Canadian Executive Board of Canada’s Building Trades Unions today welcome the measures announced in the federal Spring