But it comes on the heels of 3 years of wage freezes and a 13% wage reduction.

For some workers, this will be their first raise since unionizing in 2019.

These workers have not seen a raise in nearly 5 years, and their employer refuses to come to the bargaining table.

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The application was not even two days old before the employer had fired one of their workers who was close to the union.

They are hoping for improvements to wages, scheduling, and working conditions.

They have been waiting for over two years for a new collective agreement, ever since their last one expired in June 2024.

If successful, it would affect about 2 dozen workers.

In this bonus episode of season 5 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever interviews Harold Phillips and Chris Garlock of the Labor Heritage Foundation. In this epis…

In this bonus episode of season 5 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever interviews Harold Phillips and Chris Garlock of the Labor Heritage Foundation. In this epis…

If successful, it would affect over 50 workers.

Over 7,000 Alberta workers have been waiting for over a year for a new contract and are tired of rollbacks, frozen wages, wage reversals, and unionbusting.

They currently represent about 1,000 FortisAlberta workers, but they want to bring in engineers-in-training.

There are no wage increases, but there are improvements to vacation time and meal allowances.

Unlike the 12% over 4 years that public sector workers have been getting lately, this raise will be over just 3 years.

Unfortunately, Gateway Casinos never gave them wage increases during their last two collective agreements, so this is an inadequate raise.

We also had the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada and only the third highest median hourly wage.

They had been waiting for 5 years for a new contract, and when they finally get one, it has 2 years of wage freezes. They had wage freezes in their previous 2 contracts.

The roughly 800 workers are employed at the company’s Contact Centre in Calgary.

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The certificates include long-term care workers, community service workers, and welding inspectors.