Farid Iskandar

Farid will go over the challenges he faced as an organizer supporting two public sector bargaining units (City of Edmonton, and Edmonton Public Library) as they took the first strike votes in their union’s history since 2006. Farid will go over the Employer’s scare tactics to supress the strike vote and encourage strikebreaking or scabbing. This talk will illustrate the internal and external communication challenges the workers faced during their organizing drive.

Farid Iskandar has been practicing internal organizing in the Alberta Labour movement since 2019. He supported Alberta Health Services workers when they walked off the job in October 2020. More recently, Farid had the honour of helping City of Edmonton and Edmonton Public Library Workers in Civic Service Union 52 reach supermajority strike votes as they fought to break pattern bargaining for public sector unions in Alberta. Prior to working for the Labour movement, Farid organized with Climate Justice Edmonton.