Labour & Employment in Alberta

Bargaining between the Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA) and Athabasca University (AU) kicked off June 28th with an exchange o...

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

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

Unionized workers can make gains and stave off concessions by attaching costs to employer behaviour in the hope that the employer will decid...

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

A meme from the 2022 CUE strike. Strikes and lockouts can have profound effects on workers, managers, organizations, and their relationships...

An unfair labour practice complaint, alleging Christmas cards sent by a union to the employer’s bargaining team amounted to “Mafia-esque” in...

It looks like Brooklyn 99 will be using the Policeman’s Benevolent Association as a recurring antagonist in its final season. In Episode 3 (...

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

The autumn issue of Our Times magazine contained a very interesting examination of early Chinese worker militancy in BC , written by Winnie ...

I received a recent (2020) novel for Christmas entitled Always Brave, Sometimes Kind that was written by Katie Bickell. The novel is essent...

Recently, a new novella arrived on my desk. It tells the story of a strike by young female mill workers (“ mill girls ”) set in Lowell, Mass...

This blog previously appeared on the Canadian Law of Work Forum . Albertans woke up on Monday October 26 to news that support workers at one...

Earlier this spring, I watched a mini-series on Netflix called The English Game . The story is set mainly in northern England in 1879 and (...

The vast majority of collective agreements in Alberta’s post-secondary system will be up for renewal by July 1. The bargaining context is...