The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is the

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provincial

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federation of the Canadian Labour Congress. It has a membership of approximately 170,000 from 26 affiliated unions. The AFL was founded in 1912, when mining workers and tradespeople in

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organized to demand the establishment of occupational health and safety regulations in Alberta's coal fields which, at the time, had the highest workplace mortality rates in the world. Today, the federation continues its tradition of advocacy on issues it perceives to be of concern to working people. Often these issues relate directly to the workplace, but sometimes they relate to broader social issues such as education, pensions,

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and public health care.

News

On April 9, 2013, the AFL obtained a list of all employers who had been granted the ability to hire guest workers under the high-skilled section of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. The list of more than 2,400 employers included hundreds of fast food restaurants. In August 2014, the Alberta Federation of Labour was fined $50,000 by the

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for violating rules with 2012 provincial election robocalls.

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Alberta Federation of Labour
– Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries Canadian Labour Congress affiliates Provincial federations of labour (Canada) Organizations based in Edmonton Trade unions established in 1912 1912 establishments in Alberta {{alberta-stub