Better Late Than Never

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) has finally issued a 'policy paper' on Foreign Temporary Workers. El presidente Gil McGowan states;

"We will articulate the reasons why importing temporary workers is a case of 
exploiting foreign workers to undermine Canadian workers. Everybody loses.
It is critical to note that the labour movement strongly supports
immigration and believes that immigrant workers should be entitled to have
access to the full rights and privileges of all other Canadian workers.
However, we oppose the importation of hundreds of workers just to complete a
job and then sending them back home. That is exploitation."

Which is what the IWW Edmonton Branch said over a year ago when
the Building Trades were attacking temporary workers in a racist nationalist manner.

Also See: 

The Labour Shortage Myth

Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Alberta, labour, unions, Tar-Sands, oil, CNRL, temporary-workers, labour-shortage, AFL, Waugh, Shell, Scotford, Horizon, Building-Trades-Unions, IWW,trade-unions, construction, women, workers, students, Klein, government