Good day Brothers and Sisters

As most of you have heard Local 110 has not been issuing travel cards due to the number of Journeyman calls not being filled across the province. With calls for Journeyman slowing Local 110 will be reopening travel cards to Journeyman members as of October 17, 2016.

However, there are still some projects on the board that require local hires due to the lack of accommodations being provided I would ask that members in these areas try to take these calls before seeking employment in other locals.

Thank you  

Good evening Brothers & Sisters,

Thank you to all of our members who took the time to vote.

I would like to congratulate Brother Robert (Bob) Minnis on winning the position of Executive Board Member. Welcome aboard, and we look forward to working with you.

In Solidarity,

Brother Kevin Lecht

Name	Status	Recommendation	Meeting
ALVAREZ DE ARAYA, Eduardo	3rd	Rejected	Rejected
ANDERSON, Kevin	1st	Accepted	Accepted
AQUILA, Cole	1st	Accepted	Accepted
BANISTER, Jeremy	2nd	Accepted	Accepted
BIRON, Jonathan	1st	Accepted	Accepted
BROWN, Michael	1st	Accepted	Accepted
CANAS, Carlos E	1st	Accepted	Accepted
CHASE, Christopher	1st	Accepted	Accepted
CHUDYK, Christopher	2nd	Accepted	Accepted
DESCHAMPS, Caitlyn	1st	Accepted	Accepted
GOSSE, Michael	1st	Accepted	Accepted
HAMMERMEISTER, Dustin	1st	Accepted	Accepted
HAURYLOVICH, Andrej	1st	Accepted	Accepted
HU, Edeno	1st	Accepted	Accepted
MOALLIM, Yasin	1st	Accepted	Accepted
MONTGOMERY, Cheryl	3rd	Accepted	Accepted
NIEUWENKAMP-KNOX, Shawn	1st	Accepted	Accepted
NOV, Davy	1st	Accepted	Accepted
NOV, Reichel	1st	Accepted	Accepted
PAULS, Thoams	2nd	Accepted	Accepted
PEREZ, Paul	1st	Accepted	Accepted
RICHTER, Brent	1st	Accepted	Accepted
ROBITAILLE, Curtis	1st	Accepted	Accepted
RODANISKY, Trisha	1st	Accepted	Accepted
SKOGLUND, James	2nd	Accepted	Accepted
SZUBAN, Sebastian	1st	Accepted	Accepted
TAIT, Tyler	1st	Accepted	Accepted
TOGUE, Jean	1st	Accepted	Accepted
WOYA, Osman	1st	Accepted	Accepted
YUSUF, Guhad	1st	Rejected	Rejected
SONGOLO, Richard	1st	Accepted	Accepted
BAYNE, Christopher	JM – Local 118	Rejected	Rejected
BITHELL, John	JM – Previous Member	Accepted	Accepted
BLUNT, Norman	JM – Local 119	Accepted	Accepted
BORDELEAU, Gilbert	JM- B Class	Accepted	Accepted
DANIELS, Michael	JM – Red Seal	Accepted	Accepted
IRELAND, David	JM – Local 95	Rejected	Rejected
LENNY, Terrance	JM – Previous Member	Rejected	Accepted
LOGAN, April	JM	Accepted	Accepted
RUDYK, Brad	JM	Accepted	Accepted
SEERS, Nathanael	JM – Local 58	Rejected	Rejected
SEIFRIED, Douglas	JM – Local 95	Accepted	Rejected
SKELTON, Richard	JM – Local 95	Rejected	Rejected
THOMPSON, Beverly	JM	Accepted	Accepted
VANDERLAAN, David	JM C – Previous Member	Rejected	Accepted

Also please take note of Local 110 Bylaws Section 19- all requirements of this section must be met before being issued membership in Local 110.

SECTION 19 –MEMBERSHIP

1. Any member who applies to join Local 110, if they are accepted, will pay an initiation fee in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00),plus membership card fee, excepting that:

Those members who lapse out of the union from October 23, 2004 and after, will pay an additional amount of money which equals the amount owed for union dues and fines at the time of lapsing, plus a $200.00 reinstatement fee, to reinstate their membership. This amount must be paid in full not more than 30 calendar days from the date of the vote of acceptance by the general membership. The insulator who fails to pay the full amount owing within this time will not be reinstated as a member and will have to reapply for membership.

2. Any individual that makes application to Local 110 and is rejected by vote of the membership.

• First rejection they will not be able to make new application for a minimum 3 calendar months.
• Second rejection they will not be able to make new application for a minimum of 6 calendar months.
• Third or more rejections they will not be able to make new application for a minimum of 12 calendar months.

3. All new members, including members who are transferring their membership to Local 110 must complete New Member Orientation within 180 days from the date they were voted into Local 110 or their membership is void and they will have to reapply for membership.

4. New member orientation will be held in Edmonton and Calgary once every month and in Red Deer and Fort McMurry once every two months.

5. Permit members and Travel Card members requesting membership will not receive their union card and Local 110 will not accept a transfer card, until after the member has taken the oath of membership referred to in the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Constitution at the New Member Orientation.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, October 7, 2016 at 10:30 am at McInnis & Holloway – Chapel of the Bells, 2720 Centre Street North, Calgary.  

If friends so desire, a donation can be made in Tom’s name to the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society, 2234 – 30^th Avenue NE, Calgary, AB, T2E 7K9, 403-701-2876, http://cfbts.org/donate-to-cfbts

Local 110 is sad to announce that long time Business Agent Tom Chapple has passed away peacefully at the Foothills hospital in Calgary.  He became a member of Local 126 in 1969 and Business Manager there in 1980 through 1984 when the Local merged with Local 110 and he continued on as a Business Agent until he retired in 2011.  As a long time advocate and friend for the membership of the Union, he will be very much missed. Even as a retiree the past few years, he continued to make a difference as a trustee on the union's pension plan right up to the time of his passing. Our heartfelt condolences to his family. Funeral arrangements will be announced here, in a blast email to those members we have addresses for and in major newspapers in Calgary and Edmonton as soon as the information is available.

Local 110 is sad to announce  that Brother Gary Delisle passed away on September 21, 2016 . Brother Gary was a  Local 110 member since November 30, 2012. He last worked for Kaefer Industrial Services at NWR.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 11:00 am at St. John Bosco Parish, 13503-40 Street Edmonton, AB.

 Local 110 Officers, Staff and Members extend condolences to all of Brother Gary's  family and friends.

Good morning Brothers & Sisters,

Calgary will host it's first General Membership meeting via video tele conference to  the Edmonton General Membership meeting, Saturday September 10, 2016 located in the Calgary office boardroom at 12pm.

We look forward to having Calgary's Members join participate.

In Solidarity,

Brother Kevin Lecht

 

Name	Status	Recommendation	Meeting
Abraha, Zewdu	Helper	Accept	A
Arychuk, Ashton	1st year	Accept	A
Campbell, Fraser	1st year	Reject	R
Diop, Mouhammad	1st year	Accept	A
Foster, Steward	1st year	Accept	A
Ibrahim, Hamzah	1st year	Accept	A
Macintyre, Luc	1st year	Accept	A
Maschke, Daniel	1st year	Accept	A
Mushegerho, Mulinganya	1st year	Accept	A
Onyia, Chukwuka	2nd year	Accept	A
Perry, Gary	1st year	Accept	A
Rupinskas, Vygantas	Apt 3rd year	Accept	A
Stewart, Cameron	1st year	Accept	A
Brazil, James	Certified JM Ontario Transfer Local 95	Accept	A
Concepcion, Ricardo	Certified JM Alberta	Accept	A
Grannum, Samuel	Certified JM Alberta	Accept	A
Ho, John	Brown Card Transfer Local 118	Accept	A
Mauracher, Timothy	“B” Class JM Previous Member	Reject	R
McConnell, Patrick	Certified JM Alberta Previous Member	Accept	A
Taylor, John Joseph	Red Seal JM Alberta	Accept	A
Vienneau, Jean Francois	Certified JM NB Previous Member	Accept	A
Welsh, Alex	Certified JM Ontario Transfer Local 95	Accept	A
Dusseault, Jasmin	Certified JM Quebec Transfer Local 58	Accept	A
Gronowski, Zbigniew	“C” Class JM	Accept	A

Please take note of Local 110 Bylaws Section 19- all requirements of this section must be met before being issued membership in Local 110.

SECTION 19 –MEMBERSHIP

1. Any member who applies to join Local 110, if they are accepted, will pay an initiation fee in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00),plus membership card fee, excepting that:

Those members who lapse out of the union from October 23, 2004 and after, will pay an additional amount of money which equals the amount owed for union dues and fines at the time of lapsing, plus a $200.00 reinstatement fee, to reinstate their membership. This amount must be paid in full not more than 30 calendar days from the date of the vote of acceptance by the general membership. The insulator who fails to pay the full amount owing within this time will not be reinstated as a member and will have to reapply for membership.

2. Any individual that makes application to Local 110 and is rejected by vote of the membership.

• First rejection they will not be able to make new application for a minimum 3 calendar months.
• Second rejection they will not be able to make new application for a minimum of 6 calendar months.
• Third or more rejections they will not be able to make new application for a minimum of 12 calendar months.

3. All new members, including members who are transferring their membership to Local 110 must complete New Member Orientation within 180 days from the date they were voted into Local 110 or their membership is void and they will have to reapply for membership.

4. New member orientation will be held in Edmonton and Calgary once every month and in Red Deer and Fort McMurry once every two months.

5. Permit members and Travel Card members requesting membership will not receive their union card and Local 110 will not accept a transfer card, until after the member has taken the oath of membership referred to in the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Constitution at the New Member Orientation.

 

 

 

Good morning Brothers & Sisters,

The Local 110 Training Centre is offering a Job Steward course this coming Friday, August 26th, 2016 at 8:30 am. The course will take place here at the Local 110 Training Centre (1st Floor).

Please call 780-440-6832 to register.

 

We know these new terms and conditions will be disappointing to many of you, and we appreciate where you are coming from. You have a lot weighing on your shoulders. You have loved ones to support, mortgages to pay, and other responsibilities to tend to. We get that and we respect that, and those are the thoughts our Committee Members carried with them into the bargaining sessions. But we cannot lose sight of the larger picture. In order to keep as many of our members on job sites as possible, we have to be competitive in the immediate term and strengthen our position in the longer term. To do that, we have to make some concessions in the short term. If our contractors are not in a positon to win contracts, we are not going to be in a position to provide jobs and opportunities for the members of the local unions in Alberta.

It was clear to the Committee during our negotiations that our contractors have a great deal of respect for you and your work. Through your professionalism and unparalleled craftsmanship, you have distinguished yourselves as the best in a field of tough competitors. And that is why they wanted to find a way to continue working with you. We believe the terms of this agreement will allow us to continue to partner with our employers and to do what we do best – build and maintain the utility and energy infrastructure that powers Albertans’ lives and Canada’s economy.

The changes I detailed above will be captured in an Extraordinary Memorandum of Understanding, which will expire with the collective agreement at the end of 2019. Our members will have an opportunity to review this MOU for themselves shortly. As soon as the drafting process is complete, we will be sending copies to your Business Managers. (Please note that it is anticipated that the changes negotiated for the Alberta NMA will be incorporated into the site-specific General Presidents’ Maintenance Agreements and become effective January 1, 2017 as well. Discussions are being scheduled with our GPMA Employers this fall).

At this juncture the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Canada will not be participating under the new collective agreement as of January 1, 2017. As a valued member of our General Presidents' Maintenance Committee for Canada & National

Maintenance Council for Canada family, I want to ensure you that we are hopeful that a solution can be found to have them participate with us in the near future.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send them to inquiries@gpmccanada.com. As we navigate these unchartered waters, your direction and feedback have never been more important or as greatly appreciated. I will provide a further update in the fall that answers the questions and addresses the concerns you may have.

Sincerely,

 

Brett McKenzie

Executive Director

General Presidents' Maintenance Committee for Canada National Maintenance Council for Canada