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About the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE)
Biographies
Carl Soderstrom
Director, Labour Relations
As AUPE’s Director of Labour Relations, Carl Soderstrom is
responsible for directing the functions of the Union’s Labour
Relations Department across Northern Alberta including the Union’s
Head Office in Edmonton and eight Regional and Satellite offices from
Red Deer North. His duties also include direction for all Labour Relations
Board matters, Education, Organizing and Pensions.
Soderstrom has been involved in the union movement since 1992, where
he started as the Labour Relations Co-ordinator for the Canadian Health
Care Guild. He was subsequently promoted to that union's Director of
Advocacy. He has presented numerous cases before the Labour Relations
Board, arbitration panels, Employment Insurance tribunals and professional
licensing boards. He has also negotiated various collective agreements.
When the Guild joined AUPE in 1999, Soderstrom followed and became
an employee of AUPE as a Union Representative - Special Projects. He
briefly worked for the United Nurses of Alberta in the latter part
of 2004 and early 2005 when he returned to AUPE in March of 2005 as
Director of Labour Relations.
Soderstrom has also been AUPE’s Staff Advisor on pensions. He
has served as both trustee and board members for Alberta’s two
largest pension plans - Trustee of the Local Authorities Pension Plan
for 7 years (including a term as Vice Chair of the Board) and Board
member of Public Service Pension Plan for 2 years (including Chair
of the Investment Committee).
Soderstrom is a regular lecturer at the University of Alberta for both
the Bachelor of Commerce and Masters of Business Administration programs.
He also lectures at the Faculty of Law on labour law and organizing.
Soderstrom has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from York University
in Toronto. He holds an honours standing with the Canadian Securities
Institute for the Canadian Securities Course and has successfully completed
the Advanced Trustee Managements Standards Program and the Pension
Investment Management School.
Soderstrom is an avid fly fisherman and a former inter-national level
wrestler and rugby player. He enjoys spending most of his free time
with his wife and four children.
1-800-232-7284, press 1
780-930-3340
c.soderstrom@aupe.org
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