Alsco has offered the workers improvements in wages, health benefits, bereavement leave, pensions, boot allowance, mileage, and per diems.
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Drivers to vote on new contract
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Kim Siever is an independent queer journalist based in Lethbridge, Alberta, and writes daily news articles, focusing on politics and labour.
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Heavy haul workers get new contract
It includes improvement to wages, vacation time, out-of-town compensations, subsistence allowance, and employer pension contributions.
The workers at Allen Gray Continuing Care Centre will get improved charge pay, preceptor pay, vacation allotment, and domestic violence leave.
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Calgary warehouse workers get 11% raise
The contract also contains changes regarding discrimination, overtime breaks, and probationary extensions.
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Edmonton care workers ratify new agreement
These Excel Society workers will get wage increases, an additional stat holiday, and improved weekend pay.
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S5 E4 – Tara Moore
In the fourth episode of season 5 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever interviews Tara Moore, a disability worker. In this episode, Tara discusses growing up on a farm, attending postsecondary school in Medicine Hat and Edmonton, changing her mind about becoming a teacher, becoming disabled after a botched medical procedure, […]
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Sherwood Park care workers file to unionize
If successful, it would affect over 50 workers employed at Aster Gardens.
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Calgary steelworkers get 3% raise
The contract also provides vacation pay, benefits, clothing allowances, and various pay premiums.
That was as of 2023. In 2019, however, Alberta had the lowest fatality rate.
The certificates include continuing nurses, firefighters, factory workers, miners, natural gas workers, and electrical workers.