CAREERS: The Next Generation is holding a Master’s Golf Experience Raffle in support of CAREERS Youth Futures programing, encouraging youth to stay in school, engage in learning and make meaningful choices for continuing education and their career.

As a valued partner, we are asking for your support in promoting this fundraising initiative by circulating our raffle ad (attached) to your networks and/or including the ad in your newsletters or communication pieces where possible. 

The draw date is September 15, 2016

Tickets can be purchased online or by phone – must in purchased or sold in Alberta only.

If you could let me know if you are able to help us to promote the Masters Raffle I would really appreciate it. 

Thank you for your support.

Michelle French

Special Events Coordinator

Stakeholder Relations

Direct: 780.930.2519

Visit our website: www.nextgen.org

Good day Brothers and Sisters

The annual Canadian Conference is being held in Toronto Ontario this year. Business Agent Doug Johnson, Business Agent Doug Casemore, Business Agent Pat Tilley, and I will be out of the office from July 12, 2016 until July 18, 2016.

Shortly thereafter the Business Mangers planning session with the Building Trades of Alberta is being held in Southern Alberta and I will be away from the office July 20, 2016 to July 23, 2016.

The Presidents, Business Agents and Business Mangers Conference is being held July 31, 2016 to August 3, 2016. Business Agent Doug Johnson and I will be away from the office.

At any time away from the office the Agents and I can be reached by Email by the staff at the Local 110 office in Edmonton or Calgary. However please be patient as we may not be able to respond until we are away from the conference floor.

 

Good day Brothers and Sisters

By now all members should have received the notice from the Asbestos Workers Insurance Benefit Trust Fund of Alberta (Health and Welfare) regarding the 2016 changes to the health and welfare plan.

In regards to the $500 Health Spending Account members are required to have an up to date Pulmonary Function Test completed before August 31, 2016. If the Pulmonary Function Test is completed after that date the member will receive $250 Health Spending Account. To help facilitate members getting this test before the August 31, 2016 deadline the WOW center has opened the first two weeks of August exclusively for Local 110 members.

The WOW center has two locations at Synergy Respiratory Care #201, 501 Bethal Drive Sherwood Park Alberta and the other at #604, 8600 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray Alberta.

To set up an appointment please call 780-800-6906. Telephones are answered Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:00 pm.

Suncor is deploying the Turnaround Optimization Solution for the duration of the fall 2016 U2 maintenance event for Plants 64 and 66. This program uses wireless technology to enhance worker safety and improve efficiency during the event.

The wireless badges, which are equipped with a panic button to be used in emergency situations, will monitor individual fatigue levels and provide near real-time location information. Location and other data sources, such as schedule, are combined and analyzed in collaboration with our contractor partners to identify and mitigate roadblocks workers face during the event.

All workers supporting the fall 2016 U2 maintenance event for Plants 64 and 66 will be required to wear a wireless badge as mandatory PPE. Starting in early July 2016, new workers will receive their wireless badge as part of their onboarding process at Base Plant. Workers already on site will receive their wireless badge via contractor-specific sessions.

An overview of the program will be provided prior to workers obtaining their wireless badge.. At this time, the contract workers will be requested to sign a consent form detailing how their information will be collected, used, and disclosed. Individuals who participated in the spring 2016 event or fall 2015 pilot will be asked to re-sign the consent form.

If you have any questions or feedback, contact Suncor directly at TA0Casuncor.com, Contractor employers supporting the event and local union representatives should also be able to assist in providing additional clarification if needed.

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Good day Brothers and Sisters

Currently, with the large number of outstanding calls in the Union hall, some signatory contractors have been bringing manpower from the non-union sides of their companies without being dispatched through Local 110.

In some cases, these individuals are ineligible for dispatch through Local 110 for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include being inactive with RSAP, having invalid or expired work Visa, not being an active as permit worker with Local 110, or they do not have the certification that the contractor has requested for the call. All of these situations are breaches of the contractors’ contractual obligation to the members of Local 110.

As all members know, Local 110 has a permit worker system that has supplied hundreds of workers to our signatory contractors. In most cases our contractors are working with Local 110 in order to have experienced workers dispatched as permit workers. However, the few that are undermining the dispatch procedure need to be identified as soon as possible so proper grievance and legal action can be taken to protect the dispatch procedure for all Local 110 members.

At this time I am asking the Job Stewards to be extra diligent in checking the referrals of new hires coming to site and if the individual does not have a referral please gather as much information as possible and contact the hall so a proper investigation can be completed.

 

Name	Status	Recommendation	Meeting
Aden, Mohamed Ali	1st year	Reject	Rejected
Aguilo. Evella	2nd year	Reject	Rejected
Briault, Chandra	1st year	Accept	Accepted
De Olveira, Daniel	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Dinicola, Melissa	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Fernandes-Velazquez, Liliet	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Graham, Clayton	1st year	Accept	Rejected
Hamilton, Matthew	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Leong, Kwong Weng	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Spring-Moutear, Thomas	1st year	Accept	Accepted
Thompson, Trevor	3rd year	Accept	Accepted
Weisser, Daryl	3rd year	Accept	Accepted
Gilbert, Matthew	Firestopper	Accept	Accepted
Davis, Andrew	Alberta Certified Journeyman	Accept	Accepted
Dauvin, Lionel	Alberta Certified Journeyman	Accept	Accepted
Erba, Carlo	Alberta Certified Journeyman Previous Member	Accept	Accepted
McMurray, Patrick	Local 95 Brown Card Journeyman	Reject	Rejected
Seguin, Gabriel	Local 58 Brown Card Journeyman	Accept	Accepted
Thomas, Christopher	“C” Class Journeyman	Reject	Rejected

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.

 

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is facing an impending lockout that can happen as soon as July

2nd. The last offer we received from Canada Post was woefully inadequate in addressing any of the

demands by our union in relation to pay equity, service expansion, or the restoration of door to door

delivery.

This past year Canada Post delivered more packages than any other company in the country and we

have no intention of changing that, in fact, we want more! We want to work, we value the service we

give Canadians, and we have no intention of taking that away. Unfortunately, Canada Post Corporation

doesn’t share these values and have chosen to cut all benefits for their employees as of July 2nd, and

potentially lock us out of all our sortation facilities nationwide to prevent us from bringing the service

we love to provide to your door.

We want to negotiate a fair contract that gives our predominantly female RSMC’s (Rural & Suburban

Mail Carriers) the same pay and benefits that the predominantly male letter carriers who deliver in cities

receive. We want to see an expansion of services and create new revenue streams through innovations

like postal banking in order to better serve the needs of Canadians across the country.

So far, Canada Post Corporation is completely ignoring these issues and is content to continue cutting

services while charging more. With Canada Post making profits consistently for decades paying out $1.5

billion in dividends, and registering a first quarter profit of $44 million this year these cut backs are

simply unacceptable!

We want to keep serving Canadians and make our public postal service competitive and viable for

decades to come!

We’re calling on all allies and concerned citizens to come join Larry Dionne Edmonton Local President at

the Edmonton Mail Processing Plant at 12135 149 Street on June 30th between 2:00 – 4:00 pm to show

your support for our public Postal Service!

Contact:

Larry Dionne

CUPW Local 730 President

Informaion for Members at the NWR project.

 

NWR will be hosting its next Better SuperVision session starting August 10th (3 days: Aug 10, Aug 12 and Aug 17).

Better SuperVision is for Building Trades members and is a comprehensive learning process designed to equip supervisors with leadership skills that will help create a safe, productive and motivated workforce. It is one of the training programs that is accepted by AIT as part of the qualification process for obtaining ICCS certification.

Registration link: https://www.bettersupervision.org/register

*There is a minimum participation number of 15 people for this course to run.

Details can be found on the attached document.

Please forward on to your managers and supervisors to be shared at Tool Box Talks, weekly meetings, and new hire orientations.

Questions and assistance with registration can be sent to this email.

 

NWR Training

Sturgeon Refinery Project

nwrsturgeonrefinery.com

Good day Brothers and Sisters

Over the last number of years Local 110 has been successfully bringing in a large number of semi-skilled, skilled and some trained/certified Mechanical Insulators from the nonunion simply because of the overwhelming amount of work available through our signatory contractors. As such our Local has had successes with limited effort. However as we all know the work situation in Alberta is changing at a rapid rate and the direction of organizing in Local 110 needs to change with it. As such Local 110 is revamping our Organizing Committee as per the International Constitution and Bylaws.

 

International Constitution and Bylaws Article XIX Local Unions

Section 25.Every local union shall have an organizing committee appointed by the local union business manager. The business manager shall determine the size of the committee, but the committee shall include at least five members who are not full-time officers of the local union.

The organizing committee shall conduct regular meetings at least once a month and submit to the International Vice President in whose conference the local union is located monthly reports on such meetings. Each local union shall notify the General Office of the time and date on which such regular meetings are scheduled.

 

The Local 110 Organizing Committee is chaired by Brother Stacy Edmondson and are currently looking for a minimum of 6 Local 110 members in good standing to become members of this volunteer committee. This committee will help plan and develop organizing strategies, help with ongoing campaigns and help motivate and unify our membership regarding organizing goals.

If you are interested in being involved with this committee please contact Stacy Edmondson or Shannon at the Local 110 office 780-426-2874 or email shannont@insulators110.com

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The WCB is being reviewed for the first time in 15 years. The Government of Alberta has established a Panel and a consultation process for input from workers, employers, labour unions, safety and industry associations, key partners and interested Albertans to help the Panel and the Government get a thorough understanding of WCB issues in order to prepare a final report, which will lead to improvements and fixes to the WCB.

I encourage our membership to participate in this review process, and to share opinions on, insights to, and experiences with the WCB. The first stage of the consultation process is underway, via an Online Questionnaire: June 6 to July 15, 2016.

Information on the WCB Review process is available on the GOA website:
http://www.alberta.ca/wcb-review-get-involved.aspx

This is an important opportunity to raise and address WCB issues and concerns.

In Solidarity,
Brother Kevin Lecht