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.
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.
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.
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.
Amanda Whillans is a healthcare aide in a Cold Lake assisted living home where a bitter strike occurred in 2017.