These workers voted 73% in favour of the 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.
These workers are making an average of $27,500 a year
Another community lost ambulatory care, and a second had reduced hours for its entire hospital.
Alberta has gained nearly 70,000 new jobs since May 2022. Despite all those new jobs, however, our unemployment rate is the same now as it was then.
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S2 E1: Juan Estevez
In the first episode—and season premiere—of the Alberta Worker Podcast’s second season, Kim Siever interviews Juan Estevez. During the interview, Juan talks about growing up in Lethbridge as a first generation Canadian, trying to unionize his workplace, and what it was like running as an NDP candidate in the 2021 federal election. Follow Juan: Twitter: […]
Lethbridge EMS responded to the highest number of drug-related events between April and June of this year than in any other second quarter since 2018.
During 2022–2023, 50 young people died while receiving intervention in Alberta. This surpassed last year’s record of 49.
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Leduc transit workers file for unionization
If successful, this would result in the unionization of 14 workers employed by Leduc Transit.
Since April 2019, Alberta’s payroll employees have increased slower than the general population has. In fact, it was so slow, only two other provinces were slower.
This wage increase comes after 4 years of pay freezes, which means the increase is based on wages set back in 2016.