The Calgary and District Labour Council was founded in 1901 as the voice of workers in Calgary. We represent 44000 union members. We want fairness for workers.
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Check out the 3 new ads that showcase our challenges and bring awareness to what we're fighting for. #RiseUp
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Telus has made $1.45 billion in profits this year.
Despite these profits — Telus is doing the most to suppress workers as it offshores Canadian jobs overseas.
Telus workers deserve job security and fair wages. That is a fact.
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Join us on August 23 at 12pm for a discussion on the importance of Investing in Public Services. We’ll explore how we can work together to create a brighter future for health care, workers’ compensation & more. Register in advance at shorturl.at/abhvW
#afl #ablab #1u #ableg
ALT Virtual lunch and learn. Investing in public services. August 23, 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Featuring Alex Himelfarb and Brad Lafortune.
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Canadian screen icon Jayne Eastwood is the first to appear in this new video series featuring Canada’s film, television & commercial stars who have joined the fight to protect performers’ rights and maintain stability and certainty in the advertising industry #InGoodCompany
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🫂 People, not profits! 💸
Rally for public health care next Saturday, May 14 at 11:00 AM.
At the Legislature, South Health Campus in Calgary, City Hall in Red Deer and Lethbridge, and at Medicine Hat Hospital.
#PeopleNotProfits #ableg #abhealth
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Read 'Lifting Ontario’s minimum wage to $14 in 2018 dispels ‘job killer’ myth, study finds' by @ClarrieF here:
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Another key finding showed that 70 per cent of minimum-wage workers benefiting from a raise were adults, contradicting the notion that these workers are mostly teenagers at the start of their working lives.
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The study also showed that as a result of the gendered nature of low-wage work, wage gains were larger for women than they were for men across all racialized groups.
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The study found that across the Ontario economy, the average hourly wage rate increased by 3.4% between 2017 and 2018. All industries with lower-than-average wages, except for agriculture and manufacturing, had increases in employment.
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“There was a lot of concern and conversation from the business lobby about how this would be a job killer and would not benefit low income individuals,” said Sheila Block, senior economist and author of the study. "That wasn't the case." thestar.com/business/2022/04…
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EXCLUSIVE: Raising the minimum wage in 2018 wasn’t the job killer many business lobbyists’ espoused at the time. It did the opposite. While wages grew, total employment increased, reducing the racialized wage gap, especially for women, a new study says. thestar.com/business/2022/04…
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Join the Rally to Support Public Healthcare tomorrow! *Note new location in #yyc
#AbLeg #abhealth #abpoli
UPDATE: Calgary location MOVED due to the @cityofcalgary injunction involving powered amplification.
This is the same location as the #TestTraceIsolate rallies last summer.
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18. Amazon noticed pro-union workers were passing out information to employees stopped at red lights outside a warehouse.
So Amazon literally got the traffic light changed to make sure workers wouldn't be stopped long enough to talk with organizers.
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17. Amazon offered pro-union workers $2,000 to quit, so they can be replaced with workers who would vote against the union in Alabama.
That year Jeff Bezos made $9.4 million per hour, every hour
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16. Amazon tracks workers' every moment to make sure they aren't slacking for even seconds at a time.
But they also hire Pinkerton spies to monitor workers to make sure they aren't talking about unionizing or griping about their working conditions
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15. Amazon has received $3.8 billion in public subsidies to open warehouses.
The typical transition: a factory that paid $35 an hour with good union benefits like pensions is replaced by Amazon, which pays $15 an hour and aggressively breaks unions
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14. A year ago, Amazon denied its workers' quotas are so punishing that they have to pee in bottles.
The next day, documents showed that not only do workers regularly have to urinate in bottles, they also defecate in bags, and Amazon is well aware of this
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13. Workers have filed 3x more labor complaints against Amazon than Walmart, which is not exactly a bastion of worker love.
Amazon workers who promote better working conditions are interrogated for 90 minutes by ex-FBI company security, then disciplined
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