2017 Summer / Fall Update Keith Stevenson FINANCIAL SECRETARY/ BUSINESS MANAGER’S MESSAGE As we near the end of my first year as and InterPipline’s IPPL job by Scotford). up winning the Mayors Trophy for best Business Manager I have a lot to reflect Complicating issues a little with the lack float! Great job brothers and sisters!! on and a lot to look forward to. Let of work fronts, some of our members So far this fall, most of our signatory me share some of the highlights and thought it is ok to source their own work contractors on maintenance have been challenges we have had in the last year. as Independent Contractors and help picking up work over and above their our competition get their jobs finished Right off the hop we had some changes original scope. We must ensure that and help them secure more work. This to the NMA agreement that ultimately we go out each and every day and do kind of action is extremely dangerous for leeched into the GPMA (or GPC) what we do best to help them secure the Local and cannot be tolerated. Agreement, which had been very good more work for all of us and our families. for our membership for a great many Enough of the challenges, let’s look at The slowdown in manhours has had years. These changes were quite drastic some of the positives that happened an effect on our day to day operations and hard to swallow, but some felt it over the last year. The reinforcing sector, as well. We have had to downsize on was necessary to keep a competitive although it started slowly this year, is staffing and even reduce hours for edge on our competition. Soon after that turning out to be the shining star for administration as well as agents. No one was the realization that our 2 biggest the local. As we are always looking for likes cutbacks or concessions but these jobs at the time (NWR and Ft Hills) were Rodmen, Scott and Dean have done are unfortunate realities we are forced both coming to an end at some point a great job with our Reinforcing Pre- to deal with presently. Our goal is to this calendar year and there were no Apprentice Courses as well as our persevere through the most challenging replacement projects of this size on the Transition 101 classes for some of our times that I have seen as a member horizon. At this point I realized we were Structural folks looking to expand their of our great Local, and to position going to have more people on the books employability options. We have a lot of ourselves to be successful in all our than I had seen as dispatcher over the work on the current LRT project (which sectors when the industry and economy last 4 years. is fairly long term and there is potentially pick up again. In closing I would just more if all goes well). The current like to say that although this has been a Next up was the CLRA and our Government has made some substantial very challenging year for all of us there contractors asking for concessions changes to the Labour Code through are brighter days ahead. I wish all the to help capture some work in a very bill C-17 which will help us better serve members and their families happiness depressed economy. I made some the members in access, organizing, and and prosperity in the coming year. decisions through the SPNA portion of securing work from a more level playing our Collective Agreement to help get our field. Through some dedicated members members working and unfortunately the we took a shot at putting a float in for Sincerely Yours, BTA as a group was unsuccessful on K-Days, to get more exposure and let a couple of the larger jobs (IOL Cogen Keith Stevenson people know who we are, and we ended Children’ Christma s Part s y December 16, 2017 Galaxyland, West Edmonton Mall REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE ironworkers720.com Mayor’s Award for Best Float K-Days 2017 Show and Shine 2017 Funds Coffee Club Administration retired members Client Portal A special thanks from Business Manager Keith Stevenson and staff to all those retired Members who have joined us for our monthly coffee and doughnut day held on the fourth Wednesday of every month. The New Funds Administration Client Portal is now available for all members to access their information online. Please visit www.fasadmin.com or www.ironworkers720.com for information on how to log in. 2 | 2017 SUMMER/FALL UPDATE Peter London PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Roxanne Bernard women’s column climb winner Brothers and Sisters, As our summer days are shorter and 8 tying the winner for the men was Chad shorter and our fall season approaches, Porter and for the sisters Tina Pete. Next I hope you enjoyed some family time up will be the children’s Christmas party together with your loved ones. Since at West Edmonton Mall which will be held there are no monthly meetings during the on Saturday December 16. summer, the executive and examining If you are not working please utilize the board both meet monthly and continue resources that the training center has. dealing with the ongoing issues pertaining Keep your tickets up to date, so when a to the local. call comes in you are ready to go. Contact This year has been very different than Scott at the training center or go on the the past years when the local had full website to see when the next courses that employment and no one on the out of you need are available. work list. The local has had meetings with When you take a dispatch slip from the our commercial contractors as well as our hall it is your job as a union member to industrial ones to see where we can help stay on the job until its complete, if you to secure more jobs for our members. have any issues please see your job We know that all contractors are actively steward who should be trained in helping bidding on work and trying to put our you. Work safe, be accountable and members to work. quitting never solves anything because Since our last report, 18 members have it affects us all. Mentor apprentices and passed away. There have been 7 transfers stand up for what’s right when you see in to the hall, with 25 going out to other something wrong on the job. locals. Also 13 withdraws from the local, We will again be holding our monthly Devon Rowe - men’s column climb winner 14 members have gone honorary and 13 meetings, that is where you can ask lifetime. We had 50 reinstatements and 35 questions and hear from the agents what members initiated into the hall either as is going on in the city and Fort McMurray, apprentices or journeymen. up and coming commercial and industrial This summer we had another successful work along with our reinforcing sectors. golf tournament and raised $12,080 I wish you all a safe a productive season. for the Stollery children’s hospital. The See you at the meetings! local also entered a float into the K-days parade and won the Mayors trophy as the best float! Thank you to everyone Fraternally, who volunteered their time to make it a great success. Another wonderful time Pete London was at the zoo, we had 600 people attend. Our yearly Show and Shine at the hall was fun for the whole family. The column climb winner for the men was Devon Rowe and for the women Roxanne Bernard, and for the rod figure Chad Porter and Tina Pete - Show and Shine 2017 rebar tying winners SAFETY PRODUCTIVITY QUALITY | 3 sector has seen numerous calls unfilled and continue to seek more experienced rodbusters for several jobs in and around Edmonton. A demand we are working very hard to fulfill and will continue to support Dean Murray and his efforts in Chris Aparicio holding that market share. As we move into the Fall season, Maintenance shutdowns have begun. DISPATCHER Numerous calls are coming in for outages at CNRL Horizon, CNRL Albian, Kearl and Syncrude Aurora. These open Hello Brothers and Sisters, calls have been a bit difficult to fill, and are still ongoing. We’ve extended these Let me first start off by saying, what in and around the city and capital region, calls to Travel cards within and outside an honour it is to work for you as your this made our members very nervous of Alberta and to Probationary members. Dispatcher for our great Local. When about the uncertainly and the future Maintenance will play a vital role for our asked by FST/Business Manager Keith scope of work in this province. In August, membership in the coming months and Stevenson if I was interested in the we saw 580 journeymen structural into early 2018. position of Dispatcher, it was a decision ironworkers peak on the out-of-work list. that didn’t take me very long to make. 365 of those were journeymen welders. In closing, thank you to all those that After spending close to 10 years as Between the 6 different lists (Jry/App IW, helped me in the preliminary stages of an Instructor/Associate Chair of the Jry/App Welders, Jry/App Reinforcing), this transition. I will continue to work Ironworker Program at NAIT, I felt that it we had over 1100 members out of very hard in this new role and to forge was time to move on to a new chapter work.