Prerna Krishan is a grassroots labour activist, public sector worker, and committee leader who has spent years turning worker concerns into concrete action across the North.
This campaign comes from the ground up. It is shaped by committee work, financial stewardship, resolution drafting, and a practical understanding of the systems northern workers face every day.
Prerna brings together advocacy, governance, and policy experience. She has chaired an occupational health and safety committee, managed committee finances, and helped advance resolutions rooted in the realities of northern workers. Her experience inside the territorial health system has also given her a direct view of the barriers workers face and where change must happen.
Northern workers face a web of challenges that southern labour frameworks were never designed to address. This campaign is about giving those realities the leadership, visibility, and constitutional strategy they deserve.
Northern workers do not face one problem. They face a web of compounding challenges that southern labour frameworks were never designed to address. A strong NTFL President must see that web whole and name it honestly.
Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut cover nearly 40% of Canada's landmass, yet territorial Health and Safety Committees still lack formal standing to submit resolutions directly to PSAC National. That is a structural failure requiring a president with both the will and the constitutional knowledge to fight from within.
The Public Service Act was written for southern offices. Casualization is rising. Term workers lack the protections of full time employees. Indigenous workers' rights are not aligned with UNDRIP. Whistleblower protections fail in small, tightly networked northern communities. This legislation must be modernized, and the NTFL must lead that fight.
NWT and Nunavut remain the only jurisdictions in Canada without presumptive PTSD coverage for first responders. Law enforcement, paramedics, nurses, firefighters, workers who run toward crisis every day, are made to prove that the job broke them before they can access compensation. Bill 29 must pass. The NTFL will push until it does.
Northern and Indigenous workers watch the land they grew up on flood and burn while carrying the weight of climate grief with no workplace accommodation pathway, no institutional recognition, and no support. Climate justice is a labour issue. Ecological anxiety is a health and safety crisis. This federation must say so out loud.
Our members cannot access CLC training without boarding a plane to the south. The Yukon Federation of Labour has built educational infrastructure for its members in the past. The NWT and Nunavut have not. That ends under this presidency.
Employers are coming to the bargaining table with concessions dressed as gains while inflation, fuel costs, and housing costs in the territories have made survival genuinely difficult for working families. Workers did not create this crisis. They should not be made to pay for it.
The Prime Minister's recent announcement in Yellowknife, the Mackenzie Valley Highway, the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, and the Taltson Hydro Expansion, marks a historic moment of federal attention to the North in March 2026. As global instability grows, Ottawa is finally treating northern Canada as strategically important.
But investment without a labour equity framework benefits corporations, not communities. The NTFL must ensure every major project comes with northern hiring requirements, Indigenous labour provisions, and union wage standards.
We also need to name something uncomfortable: there is always money for extractive industries, bail outs, fast tracked approvals, and endless incentives, while locally owned businesses, care providers, and the workers sustaining everyday northern life are left behind.
We have accepted a colonial definition of economy. The North deserves more than that, an economic vision rooted in Indigenous worldviews, invested in diverse industries, and designed to thrive within bioregional limits rather than consume them.
“This campaign did not begin with an election. It began with years of committee work, financial stewardship, briefing notes, advocacy, and a commitment to workers who are done waiting to be seen.”
Each commitment is grounded in existing committee work, active resolutions, and the constitutional responsibilities of the NTFL President. This is not a platform created for a campaign. It is work already in motion, brought to a larger stage.
Modernize legislation to reflect northern work realities, strengthen protections, and align Indigenous worker rights with UNDRIP.
Learn moreCreate northern delivered labour education so members do not need to leave the territory to access training.
Learn morePush for presumptive PTSD coverage and stronger health protections for first responders and frontline workers.
Learn moreEnsure major northern investment includes labour equity, Indigenous participation, and health protections tied to northern conditions.
Learn moreBuild a federation that treats historical, psychological, and ecological harm as real occupational realities.
Learn moreAdvance employment equity reforms and stronger inclusion standards for workers who continue to be left out.
Learn moreDefend workers against concession driven bargaining and push for a broader northern economic vision beyond extraction.
Learn moreAdvance pay equity, care economy investment, and concrete protections that improve women’s economic security.
Learn morePush for targeted fuel relief and bargaining responses that reflect the structural cost of life in the North.
Learn moreThis campaign is strongest when it listens. Share the issues, priorities, and ideas you want to see carried forward.
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