Interviews:
Gunter Bruckner
Bus mechanic Gunter Bruckner, financial secretary/business agent of ATU Local 583 from 1975 to 1987, was responsible for the local buying its own building and managing its own pension fund.
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.
Eugene Mitchell
Eugene Mitchell (1931-2018) played leading roles in both the Alberta labour movement and the fledgling NDP over several decades, including serving as an executive officer of the Alberta Federation of Labour from 1968 to 1981.
Neil Reimer
Neil Reimer (1911-2011) was Canadian director, from 1951 to 1982, of the union that evolved into the Energy and Chemical Workers Union, and served as the Alberta NDP’s first leader from 1963 to 1969.
Lucien Royer
Lucien Royer became a leader in trade union action on the environment and health and safety at the national and international levels, including the organization of national and international Days of Mourning for workers injured or killed on the job.
Steve Senio
Steve Senio raised in the Ukrainian settlement near Calmar, was the postwar organizer and then business manager of Local 720 of the Ironworkers Union.
Siobhan Vipond
Lifelong union activist Siobhan Vipond became vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress after years of service as steward, negotiator, and vice-president of IATSE Local 210, and secretary treasurer of the Alberta Federation of Labour.