Index of interviews:
Pauline Cardinal: Pauline Cardinal fights wage exploitation through CUPE union advocacy and training.
Mike Cartasano: Mike Cartasano is a CUPE Local 474 Chief Shop Steward who advocated for public and member education programmes.
Lanny Chudyk: Lanny Chudyk is president of Civic Service Union 52 which represented about 6200 City of Edmonton inside workers in 2017. The union was trying to change a City culture of “bullying and harassment” that had developed in the previous 7 to 10 years.
Peter Connelly: Peter Connelly was an early AUPE activist who later became a long-time staff representative.
Dave Werlin: A giant of the Alberta labour movement, Dave Werlin was a blue-collar worker turned union official and four-decade Communist Party militant who became president of the Alberta Federation of Labour from 1983 to 1989.
Felix De los Santos: Filipino student organizer Felix de los Santos is a leading CUPE Local 474 officer who advocates for union training in health and safety, harassment and discrimination.
Leo Derkach was a long-time employee of the City of Edmonton Water and Sanitation Department and an activist first in CUPE and then CSU 52.
Nancy Furlong: Nancy Furlong spent her career building Alberta’s labour movement, including stints with the Alberta Union of Public Employees during the Klein-era cuts, the Alberta, Federation of Labour, and the Alberta New Democrats.
Alex Grimaldi: Alex Grimaldi’s many decades as a union activist included long periods as president of CUPE Local 30 and of the Edmonton and District Labour Council.
Gary Iskiw was a draftsperson for the City of Edmonton who became vice-president of CSU 52.
Joanne Lavkulich: Joanne Lavkulich, a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, has served as a librarian at the Catholic Central High School in Lethbridge for 35 years.
Peter Neuschafer: Peter Neuschafer discusses his various roles within CSU 52 from its creation in 1976 through to the 1990s, outlining major events and changes in the union during that period.
Virgil Paz: Virgil Paz organized for CUPE Local 474 against privatization and other attacks on union members.
Lindsay Poll: Lindsay Poll is a Métis WestJet flight attendant, and a member of the National Indigenous Council of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Enrique Reyes: Enrique Reyes is a Chilean refugee and CUPE Local 474 activist who advocates for Health & Safety, and workplace diversity.
Marle Roberts, a laboratory technician in waste water management, made use of her microbiology background and her union involvement to pressure employers to take measures to protect the health and safety of her fellow workers and the larger community.
Trevor Stewart: CUPE Local 474 activist Trevor Stewart is an advocate for the poor and is opposed to privatization.
Clancy Teslenko was a CUPE activist from 1980 to 1998 when she was a unit clerk at Calgary General Hospital and an active opponent of cutbacks and privatization.
Muriel Turner-Wilkinson was the daughter of a city councillor who became a stay-at-home mom and an active New Democratic Party member and electoral candidate before becoming a library work after her children were all in school.
Amanda Whillans is a healthcare aide in a Cold Lake assisted living home where a bitter strike occurred in 2017.