Delaying, Disarming, and Deceiving the Union: The Lougheed Government, Alberta Government Employees, and the Public Service Employee Relations Act, 1977
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Increasing discontent among provincial employees in Alberta in the late 1960s and 1970s led to growing militancy culminating in a series of strike actions in 1974 by members of the Civil Service Association of Alberta (csa of a) and the transformation of that organization into the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. In response to growing labour unrest in the public sector, the Lougheed government created a joint government/union task force with the csa of a on 11 February 1975 to review the legislation governing provincial employees and to recommend changes in legislation necessary to achieve a better system of labour relations. The creation of the task force created a period of labour peace in the provincial public sector leading up to the provincial election in the spring of 1975. However, following the re-election of the Lougheed government, public sector labour legislation was revised with the passage of the highly anti-union Public Service Employee Relations Act in May 1977. Internal government documents of the day suggest the task force process was a cynical manipulation of the union in an effort to defuse public employee militancy and to delay conflict. Le mecontentement croissant parmi les employes provinciaux de l’Alberta a la fin des annees 1960 et 1970 a conduit a un militantisme croissant culminant d’une serie de greves en 1974 par les membres de la Civil Service Association of Alberta (csa of a) et la transformation de cet organisme en Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. En reponse a une agitation croissante du travail dans le secteur public, le gouvernement Lougheed a cree un groupe de travail conjoint gouvernement-syndicat avec la csa of a le 11 fevrier 1975 afin de reviser la legislation regissant les employes provinciaux et de recommander des changements dans la legislation necessaires pour atteindre un meilleur systeme des relations de travail. La creation du groupe de travail a donne lieu a une periode de paix sociale dans le secteur public provincial menant a l’election provinciale au printemps 1975. Cependant, suite a la reelection du gouvernement Lougheed, la legislation du travail dans le secteur public a ete revisee avec le passage de la Loi sur les relations avec les employes de la fonction publique hautement antisyndicale en mai 1977. Les documents internes du gouvernement du jour suggerent que le processus du groupe de travail etait une manipulation cynique du syndicat dans un effort pour desamorcer le militantisme des employes de la fonction publique et retarder le conflit de travail.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".