Labour & Employment in Alberta

Earlier this week, the Parkland Institute released a report that I contributed to, entitled Thumb on the scale: Alberta government interfere...

A friend sent me this clip of John Oliver exploring union busting in the United States. Very applicable to Canada as well. -- Bob Barnetson

A few weeks back, the Tyee ran a story on the effect of increasing levels of wildfire smoke on tree planter OHS . This story is interesting ...

Two strikes, one affecting writers and the other actors, have brought most Hollywood productions to a stand-still over the past two months. ...

  Alberta Views recent published an article I wrote about the UCP's record on labour issues. The article reprises and extends a chapter...

Employers often struggle to balance their interest in improving workplace safety with workers’ right to privacy. For example, the history of...

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...

Current AU President Peter Scott Over the past two weeks, Athabasca University’s (AU) executive and the United Conservative Government (UCP)...

There is an interesting new study out the US that documents the impact of unions on workers lives. Among its findings are: On average, the ...

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

Brooklyn 99 is a police comedy series that has just released its final season on Netflix. The first episode (“ The Good Ones ”) deals with ...

Everyone's friend, Bonhomme (not a boss). One of the challenges of organizing workers to resist an aggressive employer is the tendency o...

The fall 2020 issue of Labour/Le Travail had an interesting essay entitled “Free to strike? What freedom to strike? Back-to-work legislatio...

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

This post first appeared on the Parkland Institute blog . Two meat-packing plants in southern Alberta have given rise to nearly one in si...

So we’re a month in to COVID-19 here in Alberta. I have some preliminary thoughts on work during an extended period of crisis. Some are gene...