Author: Kim Siever
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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Scaffold workers file for unionization
If successful, it would affect over 50 workers.
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FortisAlberta union trying to expand
They currently represent about 1,000 FortisAlberta workers, but they want to bring in engineers-in-training.
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S5 Bonus episode
In this bonus episode of season 5 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever interviews Harold Phillips and Chris Garlock of the Labor Heritage Foundation. In this episode, Harold and Chris discuss the Labor Heritage Foundation’s labour landmarks map project, an online, crowdsourced, interactive map of labour landmarks. View and submit to […]
There are no wage increases, but there are improvements to vacation time and meal allowances.
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Boilermakers get 12% raise in new contract
Unlike the 12% over 4 years that public sector workers have been getting lately, this raise will be over just 3 years.
Unfortunately, Gateway Casinos never gave them wage increases during their last two collective agreements, so this is an inadequate raise.
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Northern Alberta custodians get frozen wages
They had been waiting for 5 years for a new contract, and when they finally get one, it has 2 years of wage freezes. They had wage freezes in their previous 2 contracts.
The roughly 800 workers are employed at the company’s Contact Centre in Calgary.
The certificates include long-term care workers, community service workers, and welding inspectors.