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Plan for Critical Worker Benefit “is yet another UCP dumpster fire”

But who will protect non-union workers as variants pick up steam across the province?

• Shocking AHS letter shows government didn’t act to protect workers at COVID-ridden pork plant.
• Instead of ordering the plant to close, they blamed the workers and encouraged the employer to threaten them.
• Employer only agreed to close the plant under pressure from union and threat of damning media coverage.

EDMONTON – Today’s wage-support announcement for Alberta’s frontline workers is far too late, cynical and political, and continues to divide Alberta workers.

McGowan also challenges other leaders to advocate for a “zero-COVID” strategy

Railway Police Forces should no longer be left to police their own employers in the event of a workplace death

AFL calls on the Kenney UCP government for immediate action to disperse federal money to help Albertans 

Alberta’s COVID-19 infections were starting to go down, then schools came back

And they’re coming for the retirement nest eggs saved by Albertans through the Canada Pension Plan, too

Pandemic relief money should be used to help workers, not hurt them