{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"TORIES: Calgary Laundry Workers vs Ralph Klein","description":" Building a Community Movement for Better Transit feat. James Wilt: Saturday, March 18th | University of Alberta. RSVP: michaeljanz.ca\/transitcamp2023 A few short years into Alberta PC Premier Ralph Klein\u2019s deficit-slashing austerity regime, Calgary\u2019s hospital laundry workers were given devastating news: they were going to be fired. Having been pushed to the brink, they took to the streets the next day on a wildcat strike. Soon, the city would be galvanized by the strike, with sympathy strikes soon forcing Klein\u2019s government to cancel health spending cuts and talk of a general strike in the air.    Our episode ends with an excerpt from Yvette Lynch, laundry worker and CUPE 8 member.    Listen to our previous episode on TORIES: Peter Lougheed, and check out our two-part series on why Ralph Klein sucked: Part 1, Part 2.   Further Reading: Chambers, Allan. Fighting Back: The 1995 Calgary Laundry Workers Strike. Edmonton: Alberta Federation of Labour and Alberta Labour History Institute, 2012.. Foster, Jason. \u201cRevolution, Retrenchment, and the New Normal: The 1990s and Beyond.\u201d In Working People in Alberta: A History, edited by Alvin Finkel, 205\u2013241. Edmonton: AU Press, 2012. Reshef, Yonaton, and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Taylor, Jeff. \u201cLabour in the Klein Revolution.\u201d In The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada, edited by Gordon Laxer and Trevor Harrison, 301\u2013313. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995. ","author_name":"Alberta Advantage Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.albertaadvantagepod.com","html":"