Wages for these workers at more than 10% behind inflation, 18% if you count inflation since their last raise nearly 3 years ago.
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St. Albert care home offers 3% wage increase
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Edmonton care home offers 3.3% wage increase
Cogir Senior Living wants to spread that over 3 years. Wages for these 100 or so workers are already 15% behind inflation.
More than half of them were with steel fabrication companies.
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Edmonton care home workers propose 12% raise
This is just for annual raises, and does not include proposed market adjustments as high as 10% to make up for lost wages.
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AB lost over 24,000 jobs in Oct 2026
They were all in the private sector or among self-employed workers.
Both workers are members of Local 488 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.
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Brooks nurse receives provincial award
Heather Fournier, president of UNA Local 191 at the Brooks Health Centre, was honoured with the 2026 UNA Bread and Roses Award at the union’s AGM last month.
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Calgary care home offers 3% raise
Real wages for these workers are nearly 20% lower than they were back in 2017. They have been waiting nearly 2 years for a new contract.
If successful, it would affect about 90 workers employed by CBI Home Health.
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Calgary travel agents trying to unionize
If successful, it would affect about 20 workers employed by Flight Centre Travel Group.