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NO FUN BEING YOUNG IN ALBERTA
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It’s not a good time to be a worker or a young person in Alberta. If you happen to be both, you’re really screwed. That’s because one of the first steps that the Jason Kenney United Con Party took was to slash the minimum wage for young workers by 13%, from $15 to $13 an hour, effective immediately.
Kenney said he doesn’t understand the concern that some people expressed with paying young people less money. “Look—13 bucks an hour—that’s a heck of a lot more than zero bucks an hour.”
Kenney and the United Cons claim...
DEVIOUS DELAY
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HSAA president Mike Parker and the leaders of Alberta’s largest public sector unions were at the legislature June 13 for the introduction of Bill 9
THE FIX IS IN AND THEY KNOW IT. Alberta public service workers know conservative premier Jason Kenney is out to get them and shred their contracts. Even if he has to break the...
WHIPSAWED
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Steve Dominic, injured in Babine mill explosion, joins rally to demand a public inquiry into negligence leading to sawmill explosions
RYAN CLAY’S WORLD EXPLODED ON JANUARY 20, 2012. That was the day the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, British...
This month in labour rights history
The National Union won an important victory in the Supreme Court of Canada (the Lavigne decision) on a case launched by the right-wing National Citizen’s Coalition on behalf of a community college more...
June 27, 1991
In Quotes
“The countries in which union density rates are higher are also the ones in which the welfare state is more developed, taxation levels higher and more progressive, collective bargaining more centralized and labour law both closer to international labour standards and better implemented.” more...
International Labour Organization, World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization,