Working Agenda in Alberta
Cost: FREE
It’s time for a Worker Agenda in Alberta!
The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is touring the province to promote the Worker Agenda – real solutions for workers on wages, affordability, the economy, public services, and more!
This tour stop will be held in Fort McMurray at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 2, 2026. A free meal will be provided. Registration is required, please fill in the form if you will be attending. You will receive the address details after you register.
What is the Worker Agenda? Albertans need their elected political leaders – both UCP and NDP – to focus on things that ACTUALLY matter to ordinary working people.
No more toxic Trump-style tactics designed to anger, distract, and divide us.
No more timid half measures that don’t really address the real issues that are making life hard for us.
Here’s what Alberta workers need and demand:
-Wages that keep up with the rising cost of living – that means lifting the wage floor with a higher minimum wage AND enhancing the bargaining power for workers.
-Real action on affordability – including rent freezes, public auto insurance, regulated power, public housing solutions and an excess profits tax to prevent price-gouging by big, monopolistic corporations
-A strategy for jobs and the economy that involves more than giving billionaires our money – this strategy needs to acknowledge a) the implications to our province of shifts in global demand for oil; b) the dangers posed to the Canadian economy by Trump and his policies of economic and political domination; and c) the threat posed to workers by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.
-A plan for protecting and enhancing the public services we need – starting with a reversal of the current government’s approach of underfunding public education and fragmenting and privatizing public health care.
-Real health and safety at work – including protection from getting sick over and over again due to exposure to things like COVID in the workplace.
-A serious commitment to defending our democracy – by rejecting separatism and pushing back against misinformation and MAGA-style extremism, especially disinformation targeted at workers.
-A plan to address and reverse wealth inequality, which is at the root of so many problems faced by our society. The solution lies in making profitable corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes and royalties.
We’re demanding that politicians respond to OUR agenda – instead of always trying to force us to swallow THEIR agendas. Most importantly, we need leaders who are willing to protect ordinary citizens by standing up and pushing back against the political and economic power of billionaires and their political proxies – who are clearly and increasingly trying to rig the system in their favour at the expense of workers.
Join us! A better future is possible! Let’s build a worker-focused coalition of citizens that’s so BIG and VOCAL that our elected political leaders have no choice but to make the Worker Agenda the actual agenda for Alberta!
Registration and free meal: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Presentation and formal discussion: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Set up and take group photo: 8:00 p.m.
Intended audience: Union members and their family members
Child-friendly: free quieter child-friendly activities available in the room; formal childcare not provided; change tables available in the washrooms.
Accessibility: Paved parking lot adjacent to hall; accessible washroom stalls; wheelchair accessible.
Cost: Free
Presentation and formal discussion: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Set up and take group photo: 8:00 p.m.
Intended audience: Union members and their family members
Child-friendly: free quieter child-friendly activities available in the room; formal childcare not provided; change tables available in the washrooms.
Accessibility: Paved parking lot adjacent to hall; accessible washroom stalls; wheelchair accessible.
Cost: Free