Lorne Bantle & Dwight Krislock: Lorne Bantle and Dwight Krislock were long-time machinists at Celanese who were among the workers left jobless by the plant’s closure in 2007.
Reg Basken: Reg Basken was president of the Alberta Federation of Labour from 1972 to 1978 and president of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union from 1984 to 1992.
Sam Cholak: Sam Cholak worked for Celanese, mainly in the cellulose acetate area, for almost 18 years.
Bill Climie: Bill Climie worked for Celanese for 27 years, mostly as a lab tech but also for two years as the full-time Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP, now Unifor) health and safety officer.
David Coles
David Coles was president of the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union (CEP) from 2006 to 2014 and played a large role in CEP’s subsequent merger with the Canadian Auto Workers to produce Unifor in 2013.
Terry Dekker: served for over two decades as president of Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Local 777, now part of Unifor.
Tom Enright: Tom Enright, a 25-year employee of Celanese, served as a shift steward, area steward, then local vice-president of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union local which later became Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (today part of Unifor).
Willa Gorman: Willa Gorman’s 40-year career as a lab technician in the women-dominated fiber department of the former Celanese plant gave her firsthand knowledge of the department’s unsafe working conditions and promoted her union activism.
Larry Hoffman
Jack Hubler
Brad & Theresa Kelly
Cec Kereliuk
Don MacNeil
Dave Malka
Mike McKinney
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.
Bill Moore-Kilgannon
Amal Nypiuk
Norm Proulx
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.
Norm Tropak
Glen Walker
Rod Wood
Louis Yakimishyn: Louis Yakimyshyn (1938-2023) worked a variety of jobs at Celanese over 39 years and was president of the OCAW local during a 6-week Celanese strike in 1974.