Expand the Common Front and make it a permanent feature of Alberta’s labour landscape (solidarity is the foundation of our power … and close relationships between unions is the foundation of our solidarity!)
Develop and implement a strategy to support affiliates in their efforts to engage with their own members to build Worker Power.
Lead a coalition of unions to develop a worker response to the Trump threat.
Build a coalition of union and civil society partners to make Danielle Smith pay a price for colluding with Trump, destabilizing health care, underfunding education, attacking pensions and suppressing wages (starting with Resistance Rallies … and perhaps a recall campaign in Smith’s riding!)
Use the Worker Agenda as a tool to lobby the new federal government and influence the outcome of the next provincial election on issues that matter to workers (wages, affordability, jobs, public services, health and safety and democracy).
Implement the elements of the Worker Agenda aimed at building worker engagement, solidarity, resilience and power (come to the Convention to learn about all the great ideas we’ve heard from members themselves!)
Work with affiliates to develop and launch a PERMANENT AND ONGOING public education campaign about the value of unions and how to join a union.
Protect our pensions by launching a campaign to educate the public about the value of both CPP and workplace pensions — and the threat posed by the politicization of AIMCo and the UCP’s proposal to pull Alberta out of CPP.
Protect our pensions by continuing as chair of the Labour Coalition on Pensions and chair of the Sponsor Board for the Local Authorities Pension Plan (LAPP), which provides retirement security for more than 200,000 Albertans, including a majority of AFL members.
Work with affiliates to develop and launch a public education campaign about the links between affordability, wages and worker rights (our standard of living depends on wages keeping up with inflation … but earnings won’t keep up with inflation if employers and governments keep suppressing wages).
Re-ignite and expand the AFL Data Trust, which is a groundbreaking digital resource for workplace organizing, issue advocacy and political mobilization (it’s such a powerful tool for organizing that labour federations in other provinces are copying us … but we were the first!)
Grow the AFL by sealing the deal with unions that are currently considering affiliation and cultivating closer relationships with those that aren’t there yet.
Expand the campaign to liberate workers from CLAC and other employer-dominated organizations that are used to attack and weaken real unions.
Ensure that the AFL continues to provide an annual school for union activists (it is a crucial platform for building bonds between unions and turning our solidarity into strength in the workplace and beyond!)
