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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

New course: LBST 325: Labour mobility and migrant workers

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  Athabasca University has opened a new online course. LBST 325: Labour Mobility and Migrant Workers examines various forms of labour mobil...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Massive drop in Alberta OHS ticketing

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Alberta Labour and Immigration’s annual report for 2019/2020 is now available online. Here are the highlights of the employment standards a...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Labour & Pop Culture: He thinks he’ll keep her

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My wife flagged this 1993 song by Mary Chapin Carpenter as labour related. It traces the journey of a women who, at 36, opts to leave her ma...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Labour & Pop Culture: Good Girls Revolt

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If you are looking for an interesting historical dramatization to fill you winter evenings, Amazon Prime is presently offering Good Girls Re...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Labour and Pop Culture: Frankie Drake

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I recently had the… opportunity?... to watch a few episodes of CBC’s Frankie Drake Mysteries series. The series centres on an all-female de...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Activists not allies: Organizing in a distributed workforce

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This blog was previously published on the Organizing Work blog. Bob Barnetson describes a campaign by his faculty association at Athabasca ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Bill 32 reduces workers' overtime choice and pay

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This blog previous appeared on the Canadian Law of Work Forum . Alberta is proposing changes to its Employment Standard Code that would per...