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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Labour Minister Jason Copping, in shirtsleeves. Photo: Screenshot of news conference
United Conservative Party introduces the Open for Fast Food Act -- sorry about the 13% pay cut, kids
David J. Climenhaga | Canadians don't elect Conservative governments to be empathetic. They elect them to squeeze people they resent. In this regard, the UCP is performing to specifications.
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Defending migrant workers in British Columbia
Scott Neigh | Natalie Drolet talks about the work of the Migrant Workers' Centre BC to support migrant workers and to fight for improvements to labour and immigration policy.
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A WestJet aircraft at Las Vegas airport in 2015. Photo: Tomas Del Coro/Wikimedia Commons
Just get over it, WestJet! It's time to negotiate like grownups with your pilots' union
David J. Climenhaga | A strike would do serious harm to the goodwill WestJet has built over the years with travellers, especially in Western Canada.
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Image: Flickr/OFL Communications Department
While child labour is rampant in developing nations, modern day serfdom on the rise in Canada
Ed Finn | The callous mistreatment of working people was not only condoned, but even extolled -- and not just by the business establishment.
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Three children operating rocker at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Eric A. Hegg Photographs
Today's plutocrats seek to recreate 19th-century dystopia with inhumane labour practices
Ed Finn | Corporate-decreed barbarism and inequality is already rampant in many developing countries, and even in some developed ones. Including Canada.
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Dr. Doug Klein, Edmonton family physician, Dr. David Ryan, St. Albert family physician, and Minister of Labour, Christina Gray.
Wildrosers and PCs act as if fighting the NDP's workplace fairness law is their hill to die on
David J. Climenhaga | Upon passage, Bill 17 will bring Alberta labour law as it pertains to unions into the late 20th Century and place it squarely in the middle of the legal mainstream.
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Christina Gray
Don't look for dramatic change to Alberta labour laws in revisions NDP will likely introduce this week
David J. Climenhaga | Labour law changes expected in legislation in Alberta are not likely to be as bold as those planned by Ontario's Liberal government.
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Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell reads the 2016 Throne Speech (GoA photo)
Alberta's NDP tends not to make a game of thrones, so tomorrow's speech may actually give us useful information!
David J. Climenhaga | Unlike the two NDP throne speeches, those of the Progressive Conservatives in recent years were less likely to deliver on their key promises.
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Workers stand against the new labour law in Cambodia
Jiselle Hanna | Updates on workers' struggles in Asia and interview with Sineat Yon, labour activist, on the new labour law in Cambodia.
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Bob Barnetson
Insightful Parkland study of how media covers workplace injuries helps put yesterday's tragedy in perspective
David J. Climenhaga | Media and employers cannot be depended on to make Alberta workplaces safer. Only government can do this job. A new report by the Parkland Institute shows the way.
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Transforming precarious work to make workers' lives better
Angella MacEwen | The Ontario government has launched a review of their labour laws, and the Toronto Workers' Action Centre took this opportunity to make 47 concrete recommendations to improve legislative protections.
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Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court ruling on Saskatchewan public service labour law has huge implications for Alberta
David J. Climenhaga | If the Prentice Government means what it says about prudent use of taxes, it will drop its appeals and get to work making Alberta's labour laws comply with the Constitution of Canada.