Labour & Employment in Alberta

CBC Gem is airing a short documentary titled Last Night at the Strip Club . The auto-ethnography examines the impact the COVID-19 had on sex...

CBC recently ran a very interesting first-person account from a Calgary welder about his experiences in the oil-and-gas sector. You can read...

Every year, I receive phone calls from a couple of dozen candidates considering taking a job at Athabasca University (AU). Usually, these fo...

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) periodically publishes a magazine ( Direct Impact ). The fall 2021 issue (not yet online at...

Time magazine recently ran a short analysis of the cause of America’s shortage of truck drivers. Presently, supply chain shortages are comp...

I'm not much for podcasts but the Alberta Advantage podcast (basically lefty political economy analysis out of Calgary) is often worth a...

A recent issue of Labour/Le Travail contained a study examining the intersection of migrant workers and union renewal in Saskatchewan . This...

The journal Labour/Le Travai l recently published a very interesting case study about the experiences of workers at Casino Windsor. You can ...

  Athabasca University has opened a new online course. LBST 325: Labour Mobility and Migrant Workers examines various forms of labour mobil...

This post previously appeared on the Parkland Institute Blog . Last week, the Alberta government announced it will be implementing a perfor...

Earlier this week, Alberta announced it would be implementing a new funding model . This model links up to 40% of institutional funding t...

So, we want to take anything produced by College Humour with a grain of salt. But this light-hearted examination of the history of sex work ...

There has been much written about the Kenney government’s attack on organized labour in its 2019 budget (which include layoffs and wage free...

A recurring issue at Athabasca University is the slow loss of university jobs from the town, mainly to the Edmonton area. While there was...

Sessionals at MacEwan University celebrate winning greater rights. A documentary film about precarious employment in post-secondary ed...

A few weeks back, the final report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls was released. While I have...

This post originally appeared on the Parkland Institute blog on May 28, 2019. The second bill introduced by Alberta’s new United Conservat...

The Parkland Institute recently issued a very interesting report entitled “I ndigenous gendered experiences of work in an oil-dependent, r...

One of the long-term research projects I’ve been involved with is the On the Move partnership , which examines economic-related geographic m...

This week brings us another example of Athabasca University (AU) saying one thing to its employees and doing another. This time, the topic...