Labour & Employment in Alberta

John Oliver recently did an interesting piece on working conditions in meat-packing plants. These working conditions are broadly similar to ...

One of the things labour practitioners talk a lot about is the power of delay, and how employers weaponize it against workers. When an emplo...

  A colleague passed along this Kids in the Hall skit about construction workers jinning up a fake workers’ compensation claim. The premise ...

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

Back in 2015, Alberta passed laws giving farm workers basic employment rights, including making their employer subject to the ambit of the O...

So, I was watching Dawson's Creek last week (don't ask) and stumbled across some labour activism in Season 5, Episode 22 ("The ...

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