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Running head: ALBERTA UNION OF PROVINCIAL EMPLOYEES 1Alberta Union of Provincial EmployeesName:Institution:Date:

ALBERTA UNION OF PROVINCIAL EMPLOYEES 2Alberta Union of Provincial Employees IntroductionLabor relations includes the association between employees and employers through workplaces which are unionized or one that might be potentially unionized plus the regulations which could impact these workplaces. This involves the rules and processes related to general bargaining. Thegovernment offers a fair and balanced labor relations framework and disputes resolutions. Along the policy development path and labor relations ongoing issues, the government offers education and facilitation, the collective power of bargaining and services in dispute resolution[ CITATION Yon13 \l 1033 ]. This paper focuses on Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, its history, its formation, its services and current issues that the union is facing.History and formationThe Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) is a trade union in Canada that solely operates in Alberta province. The union as created in 1919 on 26th of March and by December 2013 it was approximated to have 81,000 members rendering it Alberta’s biggest union. A number of employees employed by the Alberta government convened a founding meeting in First Presbyterian Church of North Edmonton[ CITATION Alb112 \l 1033 ]. The attendees made an agreement to incorporate CSA (Civil Service Association Of Alberta) the first president of the union became Judson Lambe. Many members of AUPE are employees from the public sector. The union’s membership is split into four sectors which include:•Health care providers employees (22,000)•Employees of the post-secondary educational institutions and school boards (46,000)

ALBERTA UNION OF PROVINCIAL EMPLOYEES 3•Government board and agencies (9.0000) and •Municipal governments (3,000)Significant events of the AUPE lifeIn the middle of 1990s, the union experienced a decline in its membership because of privatization of some services initially run by the government during Premier Ralph Klein’s province leadership. The membership went down to almost 35,000 in the year 1995. Nevertheless, under Dan MacLennan leadership, elected in 1997, formerly a Calgary jail guard, the union rekindled and its membership rose to over 60,000. Efforts of MacLennan was assisted by growing moderation in the Klein government policies and the drastic population and economic growth in Alberta province[ CITATION Ben09 \l 1033 ]. In another event, AUPE was part of NUPGE up to 2001, where the organization suspended it dueto a conflict over an organizing campaign that engaged another union’s members. In 2006 duringits annual convention, delegates formerly voted to disaffiliate from NUPGE and by association the Alberta Federation of Labor and Canadian Labor Congress. Through this AUPE is an active union in Alberta’s provincial issues. The union carried out a major campaign in 2007 where it advocated for the ban of strikes by its members. However, on many occasions, the members haveengaged in illegal strikes to emphasize on their collective agreement[ CITATION Alb171 \l 1033 ]. Current issuesThe union claims that about 75,000 of its members are going to engage in collective bargaining in the year 2017. This includes individuals who are direct workers to the government, public sector organizations and health care providers. Guy Smith as the president of the Union, has claimed that contract proposals by the union are going to be tempered by economic downturn

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