Skyhigh Canada Ltd. has become a signatory contractor to Local 110.

Skyhigh has taken over the maintenance contract at the Plains Midstream plan near Fort Saskatchewan and already has a number of Local 110 members on site, with hopes of expanding the crew in the future.

Anytime a company partners with the union it is truly a team effort and everyone involved should be proud of this accomplishment. However I would especially like to thank Mike Cassidy. His efforts working from the management side, to smooth out the bumps in the process, made this partnership possible.

Local 110 is sad to announce the passing of Brother Larry Kshyk.

Local 110 was notified that Brother Kshyk passed away May 20, 2015

Relatives and friends may pay their respects this Sunday, May 24, 2015, from 1:30pm until 3:00pm with the funeral service to follow at 3:00pm at Park Memorial Chapel, 9709 – 111 Avenue, Edmonton, In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta.

As of 4:30 today all the ballots that will be counted have been returned, date stamped received, and placed in the ballot box.

The members responsible for the count started shortly there after and the results will be announced at the Local 110 General Membership Meeting tomorrow afternoon and posted on the BM update.

Good Day Sisters and Brothers

The Canadian Building Trades have now formally re-launched their Women in the Trades Program and the Building Trades of Alberta is ready to start a provincial chapter to work on the same platform, only at a Local level.

The Alberta Building Trades have asked each Local at the discretion of the Business Manager, to designate one female representative to participate in this provincial initiative. This is not to be confused with the National representatives that work with Lindsay. This provincial initiative is completely separate.

Local 110 is opening up the opportunity to be our representative to all Female journeyman members. If you are interested in becoming involved with the Women in the Trades Program please contact Shannon T by Email at shannont@insulators110.com or by phone at 780-426-2874 before May 8, 2015 4:30pm. A draw will take place at the May 9, 2015 General Membership Meeting and at that time the representative for Local 110 will be named.

Good luck to all

Good day Brothers and Sisters

From Monday May 4, 2015 till Thursday May 7, 2015 Northern Business Agent Doug Casemore and I will be attending the annual Canadian Building Trades Canadian Legislative Conference in Ottawa Ontario. Edmonton Business Agent Doug Johnson will be in the Edmonton office and Southern Business Agent Pat Tilley will be in the Calgary office.

If you have a pressing matter that requires Doug Casmore or my attention please contact Shannon Tilley at the Edmonton Union office at 780 426 2874 and Doug or I will return your call as soon as possible.

As of this week, there are settlements pending ratification for 4 of the 24 trade jurisdictions in the general sector, and 16 of the 24 have ratified collective agreements.

Last week the Boilermakers and the Bricklayers Refractory completed the voting process. The Bricklayers Refractory ratified their collective agreement and the Boilermakers voted to reject the memorandum of agreement, they are the first union to do so.