Seeking Membership September 12, 2015

Name

Status

Tentative

 Final

April Anderson

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Jhellany Antony

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Hamoud Bahdon

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Cody Basso

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Leon Berglund

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Peter Briggs

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Kenneth Dovich

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Frank Freeze

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Paula Gawinski

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Christopher Hass

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Shenly Hernandez

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Darcy Hoddinott

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Eduardo Houle

Industrial Helper

Accepted

Tabled

Haashim A. Kamena

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Oumar Konate

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Hermann Kuate-Wafo

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Courtney Morrow

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Fabian Murphy

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

David Peers

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Mohamed Ali Qudsi

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Christian Rowe

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Khadar Suldaan

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Hissein Tchouane

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Rose Tremblay

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Judge Tshabalala

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Angela Wilson

3rd Year

Accepted

Accepted

Robert Boys

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Edward Charles Knight

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Dale Niemi

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Stephen O'Reilly

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Sean Allison

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Shelly MacLeod

1st Year

Accepted

Tabled

Luc Burke

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Taylor Fink

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Murray Naismith

JM

Accepted

Accepted

Peter Towpich

JM

Accepted

Accepted

 

 

 

 

Kenneth Yuzyk

JM

Rejected

Rejected

 

 

 

 

The Family Day/Show and Shine event here at the hall was a huge success!

A huge thanks to our more than generous members who raised over $1000 for the Gordon Lafferty Memorial Football Scholarship Fund through their silent auction bids!! I would especially like to thank Pattie and Terry Kisilevich for their donation of Edmonton Eskimo tickets as part of their Football basket donation to the silent auction. Sabina Lawrence, your dedication to the silent auction was greatly appreciated!!

Over $660 dollars was raised for the Children’s Christmas Party. A special thanks to Sheryl Tompkins for her donations of baked goods and an extra special thank you to Susan Markine and Doreen Spence for their donations of baked goods as well as their time and effort into making this event a success.

Thanks to our Business Agents and Client/Contractor Liaison. Doug Casemore and Kyle Matuk for allowing themselves to be put in the dunk tank and to Doug Johnson for doing the barbecuing.

Dan Annett did a wonderful job entertaining the kids in the Training Centre making colorful pinwheels!

I would especially like to thank Millie Sager and Pat Sullivan for all their efforts in organizing this event as well as all the staff who came out to make this day special. We look forward to doing it again next year!

Union Hall Open Additional Hours Starting September 12, 2015

Commencing September 12, 2015 the Union Hall will be open from 8:00am – Noon on Union Meeting Days. Staff will be on hand to assist with payments, questions concerning dues and pick up of referrals.

Please note: as per Section 6, Article 1,  Dispatch will not be open with the exception of Emergency calls. Only referrals issued Monday through Friday will be available for pick up.

Business Agents will also be available, but for limited appointments only as they will be attending Executive Board meetings. To schedule an appointment with the agent in your area, please contact the Officers’ Administrative Executive, Shannon T, at the Edmonton Union Hall (780) 426-2874 or via email – shannont@insulators110.com

Family Fun Fest 08/29/2015

Good afternoon!!

This Saturday, August 29, 2015 from 10:00am – 5:00pm, we will be hosting our first Family Fun Day here at the hall! We will be having a Show and Shine and Motorcycle Scavenger Hunt. Prizes for the best Antique Car, Hot Rod Truck and Best Cruiser, Custom or Sport Motorcycle!! First, Second and Third Prizes for the scavenger hunt!!

Activities for the kids will include a bouncy castle, face painting, soccer kick, football throw, and VP Dan Annett will be helping the kids to make pinwheels!!

Kids! Take a guess at how many Gold Fish are in the Jar to win the jar!! (don’t worry moms and dads, it’s just the cracker kind!)

Hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as pop, water, tea and juice will be provided, Agent Johnson will be doing the BBQ-ing!

There will be a Silent Auction, Bake Sale as well as a DUNK TANK!!! Come dunk Business Manager Kevin Lecht, President Pat Sullivan or Agent Casemore.

Any proceeds from the silent auction will go towards the Gordon Lafferty Memorial Football Scholarship Fund through the University of Alberta.

We will be selling 50/50 tickets in support of the Kid’s Christmas Party. Proceeds from the bake sale will also go towards the Kid’s Christmas Party!!

The first 100 people will receive a FREE Local 110 T-Shirt and there will be Special Edition Local 110 Show n’ Shine Stickers!!!!

We are so very excited to be hosting the first of what we would really like to see become an Annual Event!! Come on out and have a day of fun with your Family and your fellow Brother’s and Sister’s!!

 

Local 110 Eight Week Insulator Pre Trades Program

Recently Local 110 completed the first eight week insulator pre trades program. The class started out with fifteen students that had limited to no experience in the trade.

Over the eight week period Local 110 Training Coordinator Dan Annett provided the students with equivalent training as Alberta Insulator Apprentices would receive from Nait or Sait, with additional focus on safety, material installation and Local 110 pride and history. In addition to the in class training and extensive hands on training in Local 110’s shop each student completed H2S alive, OSSA fall arrest, OSSA confined space and monitor, OSSA elevated work platform, OH&S asbestos removal, CSTS 09, standard first aid, and fire stop Level 1. With all the training provided these starter apprentices now have the skills to be productive assets on site and have a positive start to becoming long term members of Local 110.

The plan for this program was to provide the pre apprentices with not only the basic skills required of an apprentice for our trade but to also give them the technical training so that they would be able to challenge and pass the Alberta Industry Training (AIT) first year insulator provincial exam. As of today we have not had any of the pre trades people write the AIT first year exam however with all the students completing our final exam with marks above 80% they should have no problem advancing their apprenticeships.

At the end of training Local 110 was able to graduate thirteen students and provide them with apprenticeships and jobs with our signatory contractors.

The top pre apprentice for this intake was Cameron Stav, for his accomplishment Local 110 PITT fund provided him with a full set of tools as per the Insulator Provincial Collective Agreement.Thank you to Doug Johnson Edmonton BA/PITT Fund trustee for taking the time to pick out and purchase tools for not just a job but a career.

With the success of this first pre trades class Local 110 will be continuing the program. Our next class will be starting mid-September 2015. If interested please contact Training Coordinator Dan Annett or Client and Contractor Liaison Kyle Matuk at the Edmonton union office.

 

2015 Presidents, Business Managers and Business Agents Meeting

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.

Golf Tournament

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.

New Contractors

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.

Local 110 is sad to announce the passing of Brother Adam Bartosinski

Local 110 notified that Brother Adam Bartosinski passed away Saturday August 1, 2015.

A memorial service for Adam will be held Friday August 7, 2015 at 10:00 am, taking place at Our Lady Queen of Poland, 9906 – 83 Avenue Edmonton, AB.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

All of us at Local 110 offer our deep condolences and prayers to Brother Adam's family and friends.