This Labour Day, as our province continues to struggle with both a pandemic and a recession, Alberta working families are waking up to the fact that they’ve been the victims of a cruel bait and switch.
During the last election, a majority of Albertans voted for Jason Kenney’s promise of “Job, Economy, Pipelines!”
But, instead,they’re chasing doctors out of our province. During a pandemic!
And, they’re sending more than 750,000 of our kids and 90,000 staff back to school without adequate protection or funding to reduce class sizes.
During the long summer session of the legislature, they also passed anti-worker labour legislation that ends overtime pay as we know it and tips the playing field in favour of employers, both in the workplace and on the political stage.
It also became clear that backroom deals are being cut with UCP insiders to privatize and corporatize our health-care system.
But it doesn’t end there!