sentences:  However, with assistance from affiliated unions, the union was able meet its staff payroll and keep up a robust campaign against the government's agenda.In 1996, AUPE's fightback began to bear fruit.In late 1995, laundry workers at Foothills Hospital in Calgary went on a week-long wildcat strike to protest the Calgary Health Region's decision to contract out laundry services to Edmonton-based K-Bro.