Veteran Union Rep Wayne Trimble retires
EDMONTON – After 19 years of service to AUPE, and more than 30 years to the labour movement, Union Representative Wayne Trimble has retired.
“Wayne has negotiated contracts in every sector and has negotiated many first contracts during his years of service to AUPE and for his many successes alone he will be missed,” AUPE President Dan MacLennan said today.
“Wayne is also a colourful character who will be missed by every member and staff member who has worked with him,” MacLennan added.
“We wish him the very best in retirement.”
Most recently, Trimble served as AUPE’s East Central Regional Office Union Representative in Camrose.
During his career with AUPE, he has negotiated a huge number of collective agreements, including the Master and Subsidiary Agreements for all employees of the provincial government, the largest and most complex collective agreement in the province.
But there is no sector represented by AUPE in which Trimble has not negotiated contracts and organized workers. Over the years, he has done it all, in the General Service, health care, education and municipalities, in large bargaining units and small.
Trimble also ran AUPE’s education program in the late 1980s.
Before joining AUPE, Trimble worked for five years as Business Agent for the Service Employees International Union in Saskatoon, and seven years as a United Steelworkers of America Staff Rep, and as a Steelworkers local president at the Noranda potash mine in Colonsay, Sask.
Trimble brought to his AUPE work the competitive sprit that also served him well coaching hockey at every level from Junior B to Triple A, where he once worked as a scout for the Saskatoon Blades.