Job crisis continues
Posted Jul 9, 2010 2:22 pm.
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Our province is experiencing an ongoing job crisis.
That from the Alberta Federation of Labour after numbers released indicate our jobless rate went up slightly to 6.7 percent
President Gil McGowan says the Stelmach government needs to invest in economic stimulus because we are still feeling the effects of the recession.
“Alberta is clearly still feeling the impacts of the recession – unnecessarily,” says McGowan. “Alberta was one of the only jurisdictions in the industrialized world to refuse to invest in economic stimulus. The result is we are lagging behind in recovery, especially where it counts the most, which is full-time employment.”
He adds unemployed Albertans are exhausting their EI benefits and are running out of options.
