The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is the Alberta provincial trade union federation[3] of the Canadian Labour Congress. It has a membership of approximately 170,000 from 26 affiliated unions. [2]
Alberta Federation of Labour | |
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| Founded | 1912 |
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| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta[1] |
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Members | 170,000 (2024)[2] |
Key people | Gil McGowan (President) Karen Kuprys (Secretary Treasurer) |
| Affiliations | CLC |
| Website | www |
The AFL was founded in 1912, when mining workers and tradespeople in Lethbridge organized to demand the establishment of occupational health and safety regulations in Alberta's coal fields which, at the time, had the highest workplace mortality rates in the world.
Today, the Federation continues its tradition of advocacy on issues it perceives to be of concern to working people. Often these issues relate directly to the workplace, but sometimes they relate to broader social issues such as education, pensions, energy policy and public health care.
News
editOn April 9, 2013, the AFL obtained a list of all employers who had been granted the ability to hire guest workers under the high-skilled section of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. The list of more than 2,400 employers included hundreds of fast food restaurants.[4]
In August 2014, the Alberta Federation of Labour was fined $50,000 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for violating rules with 2012 provincial election robocalls.[5]
External links
edit- Official website
- Alberta Federation of Labour – Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries
References
edit- ^ "Contact Us". Alberta Federation of Labour. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ a b "Who we are". Alberta Federation of Labour. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ "What We Do". Alberta Federation of Labour. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ "Labour group says foreign worker program wrongly used to fill low-skill jobs". The Globe and Mail. 9 April 2013.
- ^ "CRTC fines the Alberta Federation of Labour $50,000 for robocalls violation". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
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