Labour & Employment in Alberta

Last week, I finally got a paper copy of a new textbook I co-authored, entitled the Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada . This i...

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

In November, Andrew Stevens and Angele Poirier released a report that examined the union effect on wages and benefits across Canada to 202...

One of many tasks of OHS practitioners is to plan organizational responses to disasters. The most common kind of workplace disaster we devel...

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 ...

Andrew Stevens and Doug Nesbitt recently published an article entitled “ Refinery town in the petrostate: organized labour confronts the oil...

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

A widely held belief by labour-relations practitioners is that a union or employer can influence its likelihood of success at grievance arbi...

Typically, when we teach undergraduate students about grievances and rights arbitration, we assume the alleged breach of the contract is obv...

Back in November , I posted a bit about a research project I’m involved with that is looking at grievance-arbitration decisions in Alberta. ...

I’m presently coding data for a research project examining grievance arbitrations in Alberta. There are some 1000+ arbitration decisions (20...

Students are typically taught research methods as a very formal process. Basically, the literature yields hypotheses that we then test to co...

At the end of June, the government of Alberta dropped the annual reports for all ministries for the year ending March 31, 2022. The Labour r...