This year’s Presidents, Business Managers and Business Agents Meeting, was held in Baltimore Maryland.

All of the speakers were excellent and informative, with clearly a large amount of Canadian content added to the program. With the expansion of the ISAVE program from the USA into Canada, a number of Canadian locals are having success with expansion of their commercial markets and government relations. The LMCT has now launched a Canadian web site to help show case mechanical insulation in Canada. www.insulatorscanada.ca

There was an informative presentation from the Department of Labor, reviewing with the officers the requirements and process for proper documentation and disclosure of all union financials. Including all plans and the members who were paid out from the plans, wages for staff and officers, expenses, rental costs, maintenance costs, political action funds, and consumables just to name a few. This was a clear look at what Bill 377 is bringing to our Canadian Locals and unfortunately for a local the size of Local 110 a full time accountant is required on staff to insure compliance. With the way the information is presented on the Department of Labor website this information is not being compiled to show any extra transparency to union members, this is an information page for anti-union organizations to know where unions are the weakest and focus their attacks.

Held on the first night of this meeting was the Florence Bernard/Alta Miller Scholarship awards dinner. This year Local 110 did not have any of our applicants win scholarships. So we need our members to flood the international with applications for these scholarships so that Local 110 can have a better showing next year.

Lastly at this meeting General President James Grogan stepped down taking his retirement. The General Executive board made up of all the International Vice Presidents voted to have James "Buddy" McCourt step in to the role of General President and to have Greg Revard take over for Mr. McCourt as General Financial Secretary. Mr. Revard was previously the International Vice President for the Central States Conference. We all wish Mr. McCourt and Mr. Revard the best in their new positions and thank Mr. Grogan for his years of service to our International and all he was able to accomplish for the betterment of the North American Labour Movement.

On July 18 Local 110 held the annual Golf Tournament at Legends Golf course. Our event was well attended with 95 golfers and 112 people attending the dinner. A good time was had by all and most people walked away with a prize.

A big thank you to all the staff for their work on this event dealing with all the organizing set up and tear down. As well thank you to Northern Agent Doug Casemore for spearheading the event and Edmonton Agent Doug Johnson for running his “Doug Dog Hot Dog Stand”. An extra thank you has to be given to Administrative Executive Shannon Tilley who made sure everything was delivered and ready on time, as well as putting in a number of volunteer hours after work to make sure this event would be a success.

The top team of the day:

Ben Puff

Darrell Chichak

Andrew Rmkhelawan

Greg Budd

Longest Drive:

Women- Crystal Wakaruk

Men- Wade Logan

Longest Putt:

Women- Cecilia Wakaruk

Men- Darryl Clouston (Doc)

Closest to the Pin:

Women- Crystal Wakaruk

Men- Aaron Gregson

50/50: Wade Logan

Unfortunately there was one incident on the day. On the way to golf in our tournament journeyman member of IBEW Local 424 Jennifer Horne was involved in a single vehicle accident just North of Fort Saskatchewan. She has sustained a number of major injuries and is still being held in the intensive care unit at the UofA Hospital. Our thoughts are with her at this time and hope for a speedy recovery.

Good day Brothers and Sisters

Over the last few months Local 110 has had an influx of new companies signing voluntary recognitions with the union, giving our members new opportunities throughout the province in both the construction and maintenance sectors of our industry.

• Dawco Construction Enterprises Ltd- currently working maintenance at the CNRL site.
• RAM (Rope Access Maintenance)- Currently working maintenance at the Shell Scotford site.
• Norcan Electric Inc.- currently working maintenance at Suncor Base plant.
• CBS Construction Ltd.- currently working new construction at the Syncrude mine site.
• Summit Insulation Ltd.- currently working new construction at the Air Liquide site in Fort Saskatchewan.

Bringing new contractors into the union is never an easy task and as a local we must recognize all the effort that the officers, agents and our client and contractors liaison had to put forward to make this happen. However the reason that Local 110 continues to bring in new contractors is the work ethic, skill and integrity of our membership making our Local a valued partner in Alberta industry.

Name	Status	Tentative	Final
Evella Aguilo	1st year	Accepted	Rejected
Janet Barret	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Fawn Bradford	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
Michele Cunningham	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Gaetan D’Agui	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Lumbomir Dancak	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
Abdi Adour Diriye	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Hamlet Fuentes	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Andrew Garrett	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
Renars Gavrilovs	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
Christopher Roberts	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Graham Howard	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Samuel Howell	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
Joshua Johnson	Journeyman	Accepted	Accepted
William Kittle	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Gregory Knox	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Curtis Lambert	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Michael Lemisko	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Dut Dut Mabior	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Matthew Morris	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Boris Taguimdjeu	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
James Watt	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Abdulrisak Ali	1st year	Accepted	Accepted
Jonathan Clauss	Journeyman	Rejected	Rejected
Terrance Lenny	Journeyman	Rejected	Rejected
Omar Sharif	1st year	Rejected	Rejected

 

List of potential members for the June 13, 2015 General Membership Meeting

 

Good day Brothers and Sisters

With golfing season here again Local 110 is getting requests to participate in different trades / locals annual golf tournaments.

At the May 9, 2015 General Membership Meeting a motion was passed to allow the members of Local 110 to register and represent Local 110 at these tournaments. As such if a member is willing to pay the cost of the tournament Local 110 will register the member and provide them with a Local 110 shirt for the event.

 

–Construction & General Workers’ Union Local 92

Friday May 29, 2015 The Quarry Golf Club, 945-167 Ave. Edmonton Alberta

$125.00 (Includes: green fees & cart, breakfast, dinner & prizes)

Make cheques payable to “Construction & General Workers’ Union Local 92”

 

–Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers Golf Tournament

Saturday July 25, 2015 Goose Hummock Golf Resort, Gibbons Alberta

$99.00 (Includes: green fees, power cart and dinner)

Registration Deadline July 1, 2015

Make cheques payable to Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers, Local #1, AB

 

–IUOE Local 955 18^th Annual Irv Nessel Memorial Golf Tournament

Friday June 12, 2015 The Links At Spruce Grove, Spruce Grove Alberta

$165.00 (Includes hot breakfast buffet, green fees, cart, lunch, post tournament meal and prizes)

Make cheques payable to IUOE LOCAL 955

 

If you wish to attend any or all of these tournaments please contact Shannon T at shannont@insulators110.com , or in person at the Edmonton union office, or by phone at

780- 426-2874.

As more opportunities make themselves available I will be posting the information here in the BM Updates.