Alberta Federation of Labour remembers workers killed in farm accidents
Posted Dec 7, 2015 07:10:25 AM.
Last Updated Dec 7, 2015 07:17:18 AM.
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Amidst countless protests of Bill 6, the Alberta Federation of Labour is making a strong gesture of support.
Labour activists from across the province will gather in Edmonton Monday afternoon to lay down 112 pairs of work gloves.
Each pair represents a life lost to a workplace accident on an Alberta farm since 2009.
AFL President Gil McGowan argues if previous governments had possessed the courage to end their exclusion from workplace laws, lives could have been saved.
He says: “the debate about Bill 6 should be about a group of workers who have been denied their basic rights for far too long.”