Edmonton Labour Council of Edmonton

Operating

Principles

and Values

Vision: 

Our Vision is a society where workers and their families receive their fair share of the wealth their work creates through fair wages, equitable public services,

Mission: 

The EDLC will achieve its Vision by advancing the economic and social welfare of workers and their families.

Goals:

Ø      To secure legislation which will safeguard and promote the principles of free collective bargaining, the rights of workers, and the security and welfare of all people.

Ø      To extend the benefits of collective bargaining to all workers and promote the interests of our affiliates.

Ø      To protect and strengthen our democratic institutions. To secure full recognition and enjoyment of the rights and liberties to which we are justly entitled, and to preserve and perpetuate the cherished traditions of our democracy.

Ø      To promote the cause of peace and freedom in the world and to assist and co-operate with free and democratic labour movements throughout the world.

Ø      To safeguard the democratic character of the labour movement and to respect the autonomy of each affiliated union.

Ongoing Priority Actions:

Ø      To aid and encourage the sale and use of union-made goods and unionized services through the use of the union label and other symbols; to promote the labour press and other means of furthering the education of the labour movement.

Ø      While preserving the independence of the labour movement from external political control, to encourage workers to vote, to exercise their full rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and to perform their rightful part in the political life of the municipal and other levels of government.

Ø      To assist in the organisation of the unorganised into unions for their mutual aid, protection and advancement, giving recognition to the principle that craft, service and industrial unions are appropriate, equal and necessary, as methods of union organisation.

Ø      To lobby all levels of government, with emphasis on the municipal levels, as the voice of working people and their families, to ensure the issues of workers and unions are heard and understood, to ensure fair methods of taxation that deliver equitable and accessible services to everyone.