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Teachers across the province are seeing red after Alberta’s finance minister quietly signed ministerial orders at the end of the year that they say give the government-owned investment manager more control over workers’ pensions.
One of four orders signed by Finance Minister Travis Toews on Dec. 23 changed the terms of the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund (ATRF) to allow the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) to reject changes proposed by the pension manager in its investment policy.
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The finance minister and premier might call this administrative reform. We call it theft, said Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president Gil McGowan
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An Edmonton-based company’s use of COVID-19 relief funding in the midst of a lockout is being criticized by local unionized boilermakers and Alberta’s labour association.
Workers at Cessco Fabrication and Engineering Ltd. have been unable to work since June after negotiations with the company fell through earlier last year. The two sides have been trying to reach an agreement on a new contract for more than two years.
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Unions representing the latest health-care worker to die from COVID-19 are calling on Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP government to mandate sick pay for…