The workers are employed with Prairie EMS and will also receive improvements in shift premiums, health benefits, and RRSP contributions.

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Speaking of full-time jobs, median wages for full-time workers in Alberta increased by 50¢ an hour to $34.50 an hour last month, up from $34.00 in August but still down from $34.60 in July, $34.62 in ...

The employer is 1074867 Alberta Ltd., also known as Kensington Art Supply, the largest locally-owned art supply store in Western Canada. Local 401 of the United Food and Commercial Workers filed the ...

When you factor in wage increases over the last two contracts plus inflation during that time and leading up to this past summer, wages for these workers are 21% behind inflation. Last week, the ...

Last year, I wrote an article about care home workers in Edmonton filing a union certification application. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees filed the application on 16 January on behalf of ...

Wages for these workers over the las tdecade have fallen 16 percentage points behind inflation and some workers are making only $16 an hour.

Back in February, I published a news article covering the unionization efforts of workers employed by the Calgary business Caffe Rosso Inc., also known as Rosso Coffee Roasters. That unionization ...

Last week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their first new applications report of September 2026, which covers all the applications they received between the 6th and the 13th. One of ...

Earlier this month, United Nurses of Alberta published an update on their website regarding staffing levels at the hospital in Cold Lake. According to the UNA, 7 experienced registered nurses recently ...

The application was not even two days old before the employer had fired one of their workers who was close to the union. Earlier this week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their second ...

Among workers 25 years of age and older, women saw the largest increase between March and April. There were 1,400 more women over 25 at work last month compared to March. Those numbers improve to a ...