The Alberta provincial election is happening on Monday and it's a tight race with high stakes for labour.
Between 2015-2019, the Alberta NDP conducted the province’s first major labour law overhaul in 30 years to bring Alberta’s regressive labour codes in line with the rest of the country.
While the NDP’s changes were intended to “modernize” Alberta’s labour regime, most of these reforms were quickly rolled back by the UCP.
Now, experts say the United Conservative Party’s new changes to Alberta’s labour laws are the worst in the country — even worse than the province’s previous Progressive Conservative governments.
“The UCP’s track record has been terrible for workers,” Athabasca University labour professor Bob Barnetson told PressProgress. “Things are worse than they were in 2015.”
You can read more about my discussion with Barnetson here.
