Alberta Federation of Labour

The Alberta Federation of Labour is the leading voice for working Albertans, representing 28 affiliated unions and 170,000 unionized workers across Alberta.

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🕊️ Today, Alberta’s labour movement pauses to remember.

We honour the people who served and sacrificed, many of them working people and union members, and we stand with the veterans who came home and the families who supported them.

This year our hearts are also with the CFB Wainwright community, and Alberta's unions are contributing the CFB Wainwright Support Fund, which you can learn more about or give to at https://t.co/qzb0D5p3ZT

Lest we forget.

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There are important lessons to take from the U.S. midterm results, especially for the Alberta NDP: a politics that refuses to retreat into centrism in the face of fascism and fights unapologetically for the working class is a politics that wins.

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Albertans know the economy is being rigged against ordinary working people. As Talarico put it on the campaign trail, the real fight isn’t left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.

A recent Abacus Data poll for the AFL shows the Worker Agenda’s ideas are dramatically more popular than the UCP’s policies, with strong support from NDP and UCP voters alike, across the urban-rural divide.

Read it at https://t.co/CRXuT8LqoE

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U.S. MIDTERMS: Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan says there are important lessons that can and should be taken from James Talarico’s win in Texas, especially for the Alberta NDP.

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Alberta already has a blueprint for what’s possible.

The Worker Agenda, developed by Alberta workers for Alberta workers, tackles the affordability crisis with public auto insurance, re-regulated power and rent control.

It takes on stagnant wages and rising inequality with a $20 minimum wage, a wealth tax on billionaires and an excess profits tax to stop corporate price gouging.

In other words, it’s a bundle of policies that workers actually care about and overwhelmingly support.

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Democracy is a worker issue.

When politicians rig the system so they never have to worry about losing, working Albertans lose their say over the decisions that shape their lives.

AFL President Gil McGowan will call an emergency meeting of Alberta union leaders to discuss the labour movement’s response, because this is a red line the Smith government can’t be allowed to cross.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Albertans must be prepared to fight the dangerous Americanization of our electoral system, says AFL President Gil McGowan, as the UCP’s new electoral map heads to a vote in the legislature.

https://t.co/VjHx47qPIF

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In April, the UCP rejected the recommendations of Alberta’s independent Electoral Boundaries Commission and handed the job to a UCP-majority committee and a new advisory panel that held no public hearings. Elections Alberta has warned it can’t safely prepare for new ridings before the October 2027 election, but the UCP is ramming its new map through anyway.

Voters are supposed to choose their politicians, not the other way around. That’s why electoral maps in Canada are drawn by independent commissions.

The UCP has broken that norm and put Alberta on the same path as the United States.

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Democracies around the world protect themselves by having independent commissions draw their electoral maps, and that has been the practice in Alberta and Canada too.

The UCP has taken a sledgehammer to that foundation of our democracy.

When politicians rig the system so they never have to worry about losing, working Albertans lose their say over the decisions that shape their lives.

This is a red line, and we won’t let the Smith government cross it.

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🎙️ AFL President Gil McGowan sat down with Energi Media to talk about the UCP’s gerrymandering plan.

After rejecting the independent commission’s boundaries, the UCP had its own MLAs draw new maps, and Gil explains why that puts Alberta alongside the U.S. as one of the only places where politicians draw their own maps.

Watch the full interview: https://t.co/pv4z6Qb5ff

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📆 This week marked one year since the UCP used the notwithstanding clause to end the teachers’ strike.

In the days that followed, Alberta’s unions had to decide how to respond. Swipe through for a look at what went on behind the scenes.

The right to strike is still under threat, from the UCP here at home and from Ottawa through Bill C-39, and this fight isn’t over. Your union’s voice matters in what comes next. Talk to them about having a seat at the table and becoming an AFL affiliate ✊

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Albertans said no to becoming the 51st state.

We’re staying in Canada.

Thank you to every worker, volunteer and neighbour who knocked doors, made calls, showed up to protest and voted. This is what working people standing together looks like. 🇨🇦 ✊

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No more status quo ✊

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⚠️ DUE TO EXTREME WIND, TODAY’S RALLY IN OKOTOKS IS BEING CANCELLED ⚠️

Other rallies across the province are still continuing!

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🔴 STARTING SOON: The Fight Back Now Calgary March and Rally will be streamed live for those who can’t attend in person!

Watch and share 👇

https://t.co/TiimI9BHp0

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Today, workers are marching in cities and towns across Alberta.

From Calgary to Red Deer, union members, families and neighbours are showing up together.

Two days before the referendum, we’re standing up for our jobs, our public services, our wages— and for our country’s future.

Find your local action: https://t.co/9JRfRNe0YI

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We are devastated by the bus crash in northeast Calgary that has taken the lives of three people and injured at least 16 others. We’re thinking of the victims and everyone who loves them, and of the members of ATU Local 583 and the first responders who were on the scene. 🕊️❤️‍🩹