The city released a request for proposals seeking a company to build up to 205 buses Edmonton bus drivers may have a better view of their surroundings when the city’s new fleet hits the road in the next few years. The city is looking for contractors to build as many as 205 40-foot, diesel-powered buses…
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ATU 569 Winter Family Event
Reminder: our Annual ATU 569 Winter Family event is coming up soon. ATU 569 members, their children and grandchildren are cordially invited to our annual winter event. Date: Saturday, November 26, 2016 Time: 7:30 to 10:30 PM Location: Galaxyland at West Edmonton Mall
Rise Up!
Rise Up! is a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. This site is dedicated to documenting and sharing these histories. They hope it will foster research and inter-generational conversations, and inspire activism that will bring about social change in our current 21st century and beyond. Rise Up! is looking…
Canadian International Film Festival
The Canadian International Film Festival (CLiFF) rents full-sized cinemas and shows worker- and union-themed films to audiences of thousands. They also provide local union film enthusiasts with a ‘festival in a box’ in which CLiFF turns libraries and union halls and Legion bars into festival cinemas for an evening. To find the CLiFF fest nearest you…
2017 Arthur Burke/Angus MacFarlane Memorial Scholarship
This year, the program will consist of five scholarship each in the amount of $8,000. In addition, a $2000 scholarship may be awarded to a vocational school applicant. We hope the recipients of this year’s scholarships named in their honour, will use them in part can use funds to study union and community organizing and…
Bus Blind Spots
ATU President, Steve Bradshaw interviewed by Global Edmonton about Blind spots on Edmonton transit buses Click here for video