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Member Update; Tuesday, July 27, 2004
August 7 is Labour History day in Edmonton
EDMONTON — Saturday, August 7 is Labour History Day in Edmonton.
Did you know that in the summer of 1980, direct employees of the Alberta
government walked off the job despite legislation passed by the government
of Premier Peter Lougheed that made strikes by government employees
illegal?
This history of actions taken by AUPE members will be among the materials
on display when the fourth annual Edmonton Labour History Day is presented
by the Alberta Labour History Institute.
Click here to read an account of the 1980 General
Service strike prepared by the Institute.
Labour History Day events will take place from noon to 5 p.m. in the
Edmonton Room of the Stanley A. Milner Library, 100th Street and 102nd
Avenue, Edmonton.
There will be displays, artifacts, photos, a labour history walk and
a special panel, “Law and Disorder — Alberta Trade Unions
in the 1980s.”
The ALHI was formed by trade unionists, activists, archivists, librarians
and historians who want to publicize and preserve the stories of Alberta’s
working people and their organizations.
The ALHI is incorporated under the Societies Act of Alberta and has
been actively engaged in collecting, restoring and preserving archival
material, interviewing important figures in Alberta labour history and
spreading the stories of unions and their cultural community to students
and other Albertans.
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