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Oil Sands
Will the oil sands be used to build a brighter future? Or will we simply ship jobs and opportunities "down the pipeline"? Latest Report What you can do? Previous Reports and Presenta...

Health and Safety
Alberta is the one of the most dangerous places in Canada to be a worker. In 2008, the most recent year for which national statistics are available, there were 5.9 deaths per hundred thousan...

Temporary Foreign Workers
Exploitation of foreign workers continues unabated Despite the continuing economic crisis, tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers have come to Alberta and many are being ...

Health Care
For years, successive Progressive Conservative governments have attempted to undermine health care and Premier Ed Stelmach is at it once more, seeking to slash spending, freeze wages, cut jo...

Pensions
Canada's pension system is failing working people More than 11 million Canadian workers have no workplace pension. Eight million have neither a pension plan nor Registered Retirement Saving...

Join Together Alberta
Using the global economic crisis as a smokescreen, the Alberta government threatened a severe assault on the province's public sector in the months before the 2010 budget in February. Premi...

Green Jobs
Alberta needs to create jobs to replace the thousands lost due to the recession. It also needs to clean up the environment. Some would have us believe that we can't do both, that we have to...

Employment Insurance
Employment in Alberta has taken a hammering since the global economic crisis struck. But, just when more and more people need Employment Insurance (EI), they are finding that it isn't delive...

Legal Protection for Farm Workers Now!
Imagine going to work in the morning with no guarantees that you will be paid, with no ability to refuse dangerous work, no access to WCB and no right to join a union. And all for possibly l...

Labour Laws
Alberta has a history of protracted labour disputes, often with unions seeking first contracts, including strikes at Lakeside Packers, the Calgary Herald and the Shaw Convention Centre in Ed...

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keep up the all the good work and keep the faith....

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Employers like Tim Hortons franchise holders are buying houses to keep temporary foreign workers. They fi...

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Posted On: Alberta hit with 800 complaints from foreign workers: Accommodation, unfair wage deductions cited

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