PipelinerCANADIAN THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PIPE LINE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA DECEMBER 2018 Vol. 33 #4 HAPPY HOLIDAYS EDITION About The Cover Our seasonal cover this year extends warmest wishes for a prosperous and happy holiday season from PLCAC president, Paul Schultz (Premay Pipeline Hauling L.P.). In 1986, Paul began his pipeline career working for his father, Les Schultz as a labourer. Paul knows virtually every road in the Canadian pipeline system, having either directed his team to a remote pipeline construction site or driven there in his favourite Corvette. Located in Edmonton, AB, Premay Pipeline Hauling L.P. is one of Canada’s premier pipeline hauling companies. Services include logistics for pipe shipment by rail and truck and to stockpile sites across Canada and then strung along pipeline construction right of ways. 2. PLCAC Successfully Renews Pipeline Collective Agreements in 2018 During 2018, our national competitive market pressure, the parties agreed to modest Maintenance and Service increases over the five-year term. Agreements (M&S) and Mainline Pipeline Agreements (ML) With a long history of collaboration in a mature labour both expired and needed to be relations relationship, the PLCAC and four pipeline trades renewed. Led by our National unions have worked closely together to discuss shared Labour Relations Chairman objectives to improve our industry, attract the highly Lyall Nash, our M&S and ML Negotiating Committees skilled workforce and maintain the quality workforce that worked with the four pipeline craft unions to bring these is required to build and maintain pipelines across Canada. negotiations to a conclusion without a labour slowdown, stoppage or lockout. t m deal n n s t e i e o s l g meeting The M&S agreements were ratified during the spring of i n t a u m d r o n n e n e diplomacy t i n n l e t o g o 2018. Our negotiating committee and labour partner i o i i t i p i a a t t y s n t settlement r g a g a s a a g t u representatives recognized the highly competitive r n r l k e o o a f e o communication u o c b b o b s landscape of our industry and successfully renewed the e r a r a n l p l o collective agreements for a period of three (3) years from l c o c negotiations January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. n o memorandum understanding i t t a n l compromise l e i agreement m The ML negotiations commenced in the summer of 2018 r k t i m s f l c e e n a a s discussion and focused on further cost structure reductions and g t i v o a o c m n efficiency gains with our pipeline trade union partners. r acknowledgment o a p r p m p The parties renewed five (5) year agreements from May a 1, 2018, to April 31, 2023. Again, in recognition of the PLCAC Proudly Supporting the Helmets to Hardhats Program Helmets to Hardhats Canada® (H2H) is a not-for-profit organization that was designed to provide career opportunities for anyone who has served (or is currently serving) in the Regular or Reserve Components of the Canadian Forces. This program develops apprenticeship training opportunities for military persons to transition into civilian careers in the building and construction industry. The building trades unions and many employers across Canada actively support the H2H program in Canada and provide both apprenticeship opportunities for learning and placement. The program recognizes the unique skills and valuable contribution that the Canadian Forces have made to Canada, and the qualities they have to offer potential employers. During our 2018 collective bargaining sessions, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters negotiated additional employer contributions in their Pipeline Maintenance and Service Agreement for Canada and Mainline Pipeline Agreement for Canada to support this program. Our members are pleased to support the transition of professional and highly trained Canadian Forces veterans into pipeline construction careers which will continue our history of providing highly skilled, professional and competent workers for our client’s projects. For more information about this program and initiative, please go to www.helmetstohardhats.ca. Did you know ... Pipe Line Contractors Association of Canada members have built the majority of the NEB regulated pipelines and participated in constructing the first Trans Mountain Pipeline in 1954. Information courtesy: Pipe Line Contractors Association of Canada (PLCAC) 3. 3rd Annual “Day on the Hill” Focuses on Safe Pipelines, Responsibly-built The PLCAC participated in a third “Day on the Hill” in Ottawa on October 17 and 18, 2018. Planned and conducted as a joint union-management activity with our union partners from the Operating Engineers, United Association, Teamsters Canada and Labourers, through the Canadian Pipeline Advisory Council (CPAC), it was highly successful with over fifty meetings. Steven Schumann, Canadian Government Affairs Director for the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), who has been working on Parliament Hill for over a decade, noted: “The government officials need to be reminded that PLCAC contractors and their labour partners have built the majority of NEB-regulated pipelines in Canada and are well-prepared to build the next ones as well.” The joint lobby is a unique partnership with 24 senior leaders of the PLCAC and the four craft unions to the Pipeline Agreements of Canada set up as eight union-management teams, visiting officials in English and French. Open to meeting with all parties, the teams circulated across Parliament Hill taking part in meetings with various members of parliament and senators (34 Conservative, 21 Liberal and 3 NDP). The PLCAC approach to lobbying is one of myth-busting and fact-sharing, to build awareness and familiarity with modern pipeline construction and maintenance practices, from the folks who have built and maintain most of the 73,000 kilometers of National Energy Board (NEB) regulated pipelines throughout Canada. The awareness-building materials we use with public office holders and officials are available in English and French to PLCAC members at the Communications Industry Information link at www.pipeline.ca. A major discussion point of the day was Canada’s need to get its crude oil to tidewaters. Gaining ocean access will decrease the unbalanced economic dependence on the USA and could reduce Eastern Canada’s dependence on oil imports from countries with questionable human rights practices. The Federal government’s purchase of Trans Mountain Pipeline and the recent Supreme Court ruling against the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline project had support and opposition along partisan lines. Interestingly, resurrecting the Energy East project to supply oil to Quebec and the Maritimes was discussed in several of the meetings. A second concern was raised regarding the length of time, costs, risks, and uncertainties of the current pipeline approval regulatory process and how the proposed changes outlined in Bill C-69 could make that process even more problematic. The government officials were interested to learn more about how PLCAC members focus on environmental protection, health, and safety of our employees and encouraging Indigenous, youth, and women into pipeline careers. They also expressed support of our self-funding industry model which provides for on- going skills development and delivers excellent wages, health, and pension benefits for the pipeline craft employees. The PLCAC and its union partners have been supporting elected officials to find practical solutions to policy issues since 1971, when we first came to the table as stakeholders to the historic northern pipeline project applications. As our country heads into the 2019 federal election, we will continue to support elected officials as they redouble their focus on getting new pipelines approved and constructed for the benefit of Canadians, with our highly-skilled Roy Finley, Teamsters and Mark Scherer, Aecon pictured in front of Centre Block, workforce as the builders of choice. Parliament of Canada (Ottawa, ON). 4. 3rd Annual “Day on the Hill” Focuses on Safe Pipelines, Responsibly-built (continued) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Note: Captions for each picture are listed from left to right. Picture 1: Terry Webb, UA; Bev Shipley, Conservative MP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex; Neil Waugh, NPL Canada Ltd. and Wayne Hodgins, PLCAC. Picture 2 Kyle Peterson, Liberal MP for Newmarket-Aurora and Neil Lane, PLCAC. Picture 3: Stephane Favron, UA; Nick de Koning, Robert B. Somerville Co. Limited; Anthony Rota, Liberal MP for Nipissing-Timiskaming and Wes Waschuk, Waschuk Pipe Line Construction Ltd. Picture 4: Neil Waugh, NPL Canada Ltd.; Terry Webb, UA; Wayne Hodgins, PLCAC and Francesco Sorbara, Liberal MP for Vaughan-Woodbridge. Picture 5: Mark Olsen, LiUNA; Lyall Nash, TESTCO Western Corp.; Ella Matteucci, PLCAC and Wayne Long, Liberal MP Saint John-Rothesay. Picture 6: Neil Lane, PLCAC; Ryan Adam, Prairies Regional Desk for Prime Minister’s Office and Lionel Railton, IUOE. Picture 7: Nick de Koning, Robert B. Somerville Co. Limited; Wes Waschuk, Waschuk Pipe Line Construction Ltd.; Shannon Stubbs, Conservative MP for Lakeland and Stephane Favron, UA. Picture 8: Tony Pietrangelo, LiUNA; Dane Lloyd, Conservative MP for Sturgeon River-Parkland; Kellie Gamble, PLCAC and Mike Prior, Michels Canada Co. 5. Naming Ceremony for the Budd Coutts Apprenticeship and Education Centre The International Union of Operating Engineers — Local 955 held an open house and naming ceremony of the Budd Coutts Apprenticeship and Education Centre on October 12, 2018. The event was in part sponsored by the Pipe Line Contractors Association of Canada as well as the Alberta based pipeline contractors including Banister Pipelines Constructors Corp., Michels Canada Co., O.J.