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A Time for Change Martyn A. Piper

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t is times like these that we have to

stop and think how best to manage our way through a difficult economy. No matter where you turn outside of the weather discussion, the Alberta economy and the associated reverberations are all around us.

Front and centre is the discussion about jobs, both now and in future, and how best we can compete in these challenging times and still maintain decent terms and conditions of employment. Owners are focused on reducing the cost of production and getting their commodities to market, contractors are being squeezed to find cost savings in their material and labour and we, the unions, are being forced to look for new and innovative ways to “stay in the game.” And the decisions we make, while not always popular, are always about prolonging our longevity on the worksite.

The world in Alberta today is a far different place than it was in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when arguably we had 80 per cent market share in most sectors. Not since that time have we been able to truly say, “They can’t do it without us” – because they did and, in many instances, they are. However, the current state of our market share is not entirely due to market fluctuations, but more about a deliberate systematic dismantling of the Alberta Labour Code and previous labour acts under successive Conservative governments over the last 30 years or so. This devious plot which has allowed for growth of the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) and the Merit Contractors Association has been in large measure due a “free pass” at the Legislature; something which I hope is at an end with our new provincial government.

Maybe the biggest affront to the right to organize has been the unfettered ability for “union” contractors to double breast and spin off to avoid legitimate collective bargaining obligations. Nowhere else in Canada can a union 4

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contractor or its corporate hierarchy march into a corporate lawyers office and in a matter of minutes set up an alternative company and then play both sides both union and non-union (which, in most cases, becomes a CLAC company to avoid legitimate organizing attempts by a bona fide union).

I guess the overarching insult is that everybody in the industry knows this, and it is now accepted as the norm. Does this sound like sour grapes? Not really, as this is a thesis built on fact. It is not by chance or luck that the Alberta construction industry became what it is today – which is a large CLAC and open shop presence.

This is not hard to do when the playing field and legislation are so biased; something I hope will be corrected in the next couple of years.

Organizing in the construction industry has become an exercise in futility as the requirements to succeed in a successful certification attempt in organizing is about as remote as me becoming the King of England. Check the number of applications at the Alberta Labour Relations Board. The evidence is all there, or might I say, not there. Collective bargaining and the right to organize are foundational principals that have been swept aside in this province for too long.

What we have seen over the past 35 years or so is a cleverly orchestrated strategy unfolding under the watchful and supportive eye of successive Conservative governments. Only the initiated have been aware of what has been going on during this time and ringing alarm bells was considered fear mongering and just not the “Alberta way.” Unions just accepted the legislation for what it was and decided there was no point in taking issue with a government that had chosen its team to play on. So unions moved onto less confrontational issues some never really conscious of the gradual erosion of union rights, because there just seemed to be

enough for everyone and on the face of it times appeared to be good.

Albertans as always are an optimistic lot and they believe the economy will always bounce back, oil will again backstop jobs and life in Alberta will eventually return to an “Alberta normal,” where prosperity and good fortune are around every corner. The problem is, for all blatant and obvious attempts to drive the Alberta construction industry toward a Gulf Coast open-shop mentality – supposedly in the name of being “market competitive” – we are still facing one of our greatest recessionary times in recent memory, and workers again will take the hit on the nose rolling back yet again. So it does not matter whether it’s in good times or bad, there will always be an open shop lobby to drive employees’ compensation to the lowest level for workers in the construction industry.

So maybe now as the tide is changing and we collaborate with government on diversification initiatives, alternative energy opportunities, responsible and sustainable development and pipelines to tide water, we will also be partnering with a government that will listen and work with us to stop the gradual but inevitable slide for the building trades into the labour relations abyss.

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14 A Fair Trade A pilot pre-apprenticeship construction program equips women for careers in carpentry and scaffolding

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20 Building Alberta’s Future

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28 A Pledge for Parity Now that women account for half of the labour force, they help unions build up strength

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25 Kid Zone 26 Meet the Journeyman

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27 Meet the Apprentice 29 Training and Apprenticeship Report

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30 Parting Shot 31 Training & Events; In Memoriam

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Local Union Picnics LU 1325 Fort Edmonton Park (7000 143 St) will play host to this year’s Local 1325 annual picnic in conjunction with the National Apprenticeship Contest. Stop by the Bellerose Picnic Area on August 20.

Grab some grub between noon and 2 p.m. and while you’re in the park, show your support for Local 1325’s participants in the NAC! Park gates open at 10 a.m. Registration is mandatory for the barbecue, which is for members and immediate family. Register before August 12, 2016, by calling 780-471-3200.

LU 2103 Summer wouldn’t be complete for Local 2103 members and their families without a trip to Calaway Park for the annual picnic.

To register for this year’s festivities, slated for Sunday, August 7, contact Nikki at nrichter@albertacarpenters.com or 403-283-0747, ext. 5221 before July 26. The fun starts at 10 a.m., with rides, free admission and a barbecue lunch at the Explorers Clubhouse at noon. All members in good standing and their children under 18 are welcome to attend if they register in advance.

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Apprentices Go National Local 1325 will get to defend its top prize on home turf as Edmonton hosts the National Apprenticeship Contest this August at Fort Edmonton Park. You might remember Michael Yewchin, pictured, from the cover of this magazine last fall; he brought home top honours in the carpentry contest last year from Saskatoon.

This year’s competition will see apprentices complete a host of tasks to show off their skills, competing in carpentry, drywall, millwrighting, floor covering installation, and for the first time ever this year – scaffolding. The event is slated for the weekend of August 19-20 at Fort Edmonton Park. If you would like to volunteer, contact Kim Belbin at kim.belbin@abcarptc.ab.ca.

Calgary Icon Remembered Ron Southern, who was best known for turning a small trailer company into an industrial force and founding a renowned show-jumping facility that put Alberta on the map, passed away on January 31, 2016. He was 85.

Southern started out with his father in the trailer-for-hire business, with Alberta Trailer Co., as a means to pay for his university tuition back in 1947. That company would eventually become Atco Ltd., an international conglomerate focusing on power generation, natural gas distribution, and camp services.

He created Spruce Meadows on an old feedlot outside of Calgary in the 1970s, when his daughters were young and interested in show-jumping. Established in 1975, Spruce Meadows became a worldclass equestrian facility that is still a huge draw for Calgary today.

At his memorial service, his daughter Nancy Southern, who is chair, president and CEO of Atco, called her father “a giant of a man.” He was known for being an avid promoter of his native Calgary, his love of reading, and being down-to-earth despite his business acumen and successes.

Southern is survived by his wife of 61 years, Margaret, daughters Nancy and Linda Southern-Heathcott, who is now president and CEO of Spruce Meadows, and six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Born Ronald Donald Southern on July 25, 1930, in Calgary, Southern 6

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was predeceased by his parents Ina and Donald Southern.

Martyn Piper, executive secretary treasurer of the Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers, credits Southern with a long and powerful relationship with ARCCAW, and especially Local Union 3002. “I am proud to say in our longstanding relationship, we never had a strike or lockout with the company (Atco), and have always been able to fashion collaborative and mutually agreeable outcomes to some challenging issues,” says Piper, who recalls his first meeting with Southern in the 1980s in Calgary and being treated “with warmth, respect and humility.”

Fore a Good Cause You’re invited to the sixth annual UBCJA Local 2103 and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday June 18, 2016.

Where: Silverwing Links, 3434 - 48 Avenue NE, Calgary Registration: Beginning at 8 a.m.

Fees: $135 per person or $540 per team of four.

Tee Off: 9 a.m.

Contact: Call Nikki at 403-283-0747, ext. 5221 or nrichter@albertacarpenters.com Payment options: Cash, credit, debit or money order *Last day to register is June, 13, 2016.

1325 Robert Provencher Bursary Trust Application 2016 Carpenter’s Local 1325 - Year 2016 Applications are available June 2016 For a list of the application rules and requirements and the complete application form please visit our web page: www.albertacarpenters.com Applications are also available at the LU1325 Offices Edmonton 133, 15210-123 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5V 0A3 Ph: (780) 733-2160 Fax: (780) 477-7143 Fort McMurray #165, 101 Signal Road Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4N6 Ph: (780) 743-1442 Deadline for Application: August 31, 2016 Inquiries to: Diana Stubbard at (780) 733-2160 dstubbard@albertacarpenters.com SPRING 2016 | HARDHAT

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Meeting of the Minds Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley took time to sit down with members of the Regional Council and the Building Trades of Alberta, among other union groups, on an official visit to Edmonton in February. Building Trades of Alberta executive director Warren Fraleigh says Notley and Trudeau seemed to understand Alberta’s issues and were genuinely interested in finding solutions for Alberta workers.

Introducing Brian Dort Fort McMurray has a new business rep for Millwrights Local 1460, but he’s far from a stranger to the union. A 1460 member for the past 17 years, Brian Dort worked his way around Alberta doing construction and maintenance millwrighting work.

Originally from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Dort cut his teeth in the trades building log homes in the Muskoka region of Ontario, and that’s where he was first introduced to millwrights, he says. In addition to his work in construction, Dort spent seven years teaching millwrights at SAIT Polytechnic, where he says he always promoted union membership to his students.

Dort started his new post as Northern Alberta business rep for Local 1460 back in February, and he says he’s really gotten into the role. “It’s a learning curve but I like interacting with the members and resolving disputes. What’s fair is fair … and I have always been one to fight for the underdog.”

Dort, who is based in Fort McMurray, enjoys spending his off time with his wife Jacquie and his two daughters.

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Hands ON Local 2010 member recounts a lifetime of working with steel, with no sign of retirement in sight

By MARTIN DOVER | Photography by DON MOLYNEAUX

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or almost six decades Arnold

isn’t only comprised of carpenters and millwrights like most of the other unions represented by the Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers (ARCCAW). Pipefitters, electricians, plumbers and most other construction trades are represented under 2010’s umbrella, after ARCCAW executive-secretary Martyn Piper, citing common interests, brought industrial shops across the province together to form a new Local.

Jewan has started his 5 a.m. shift at the same steel manufacturing plant with his usual breakfast in hand: a small black Tim Hortons coffee and a hamand-cheese sandwich – hold the veggies.

At 79, the self-professed “Labourer Number While he has held many positions over the years, and trained in trades from welding One” at Airdrie’s Westman Steel plant is still to carpentry, steel has always been Jewan’s passion, and these days he is responsible for every going strong, reporting for his full-time, fivepiece of industrial trim that Westman Steel produces. When asked what he likes best about day-a-week post like clockwork, and handling his work, his answer is to the point: “Everything. I like the people I work with, the people I upwards of 400 pieces of light metal trim used work for, I feel great. I look forward to coming in every morning.” for trailers, Quonsets, barns and industrial Chrissy Friesen, the plant’s production supervisor, has worked with Jewan at Westman campsites on any given day. for the past nine years. She says he’s the first one to arrive every morning, just after at 4 a.m., A card-carrying member of Local 2010 after picking up his Tims on the drive from his Calgary home. And before Friesen leaves each (making him the longest-standing active day, she makes a point of having ample work ready for Jewan for the next day – or else. “If member of an industrial there is nothing for him to do, he is very cranky. He will union in Alberta), Jewan “A man has to keep his body and help out in the other departments if need be, but he would still recalls the day he prefer to just stay in trim,” she jokes. mind active in order to survive. joined: March 10, 1960.

A kind and patient teacher, Jewan is also responsible Back then, he worked with for training new employees on the ins and outs of flashing You are only as old as you feel. wood – building trailers, and other trims, and is well-liked at the 25-person shop, Some days you feel like you’re 100 laying floor and doing Friesen explains. “Arnold trained me in trim and has and other days you feel like you’re trained almost everybody that works in the trim departvirtually whatever task he was asked for a wage of ment about what each part is and how everything works, 20,” says Arnold Jewan. $1.75 an hour. and how to package it. Now Arnold runs all of our trim It was a different story on the job site then, machines, except for the brakes, unless somebody needs a hand. Every trim we have, Arnold he says. “In those days, in 1960, you did whathas something to do with it.” ever needed to be done. There was no such Originally from Northern Germany, Jewan immigrated to Canada in 1953, first settling in thing as ‘This is not my job’,” he says. “You did Lethbridge and then Calgary two years later. He doesn’t miss his homeland a bit, even after a what you were told, and if you didn’t know, five-week vacation there in 1963. “I couldn’t get back fast enough; it was just too crowded there. you were told once and then away you’d go.”

With the bulk of his career spent with the same company, working alongside many of the same union employees on the shop floor, Jewan’s job history has unfolded differently from many in the building trades today.

Jewan started out with ATCO Structures & Logistics in 1960 and he remained there after the company was sold, along with its employees and their seniority, to Westman Steel in 1992. The Airdrie location, where Westman has had a presence since 2001, acts as a manufacturing and distribution hub for the company’s six Western Canadian locations, which span from Langley, B.C., to Cambridge, Ont., with company headquarters in Winnipeg, Man. The company has been on Deloitte Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies list twice (in 1997 and 2002).

Like Jewan, all of Westman’s shop workers FAMILY VALUES: Westman Steel staff liken the company to a family for its are members of Local 2010, which represents close-knit structure. Pictured with Arnold Jewan, second from right, are Bob Sawatzky, Chrissy Friesen, and Alberta general manager Jason Makarus. tradespeople from all over Alberta. But the union, which has been around since 1997, SPRING 2016 | HARDHAT

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Everything was out of place. I have no intention of going anywhere else but here,” he says.

While the job has gotten easier thanks to technological progress, Jewan, who worked for a decade as a foreman and nearly 40 years as a lead hand at the company, can now single-handedly produce several pieces of trim in the time it once took to do just one item, by hand, and using twice the manpower.

“You had muscles up to here,” he says, motioning toward his arms and referring to pre-technology days. “Now, you put your material in and it comes out right. It used to take two guys on the brake, now it’s just one.

It has improved and things have speeded up and made it easier.”

Now the oldest on the shop floor, he remembers once being one of the youngest – in fact, underage – when hitting the pub for a pint after a shift when he was just starting out, and having his boss come to his defence, vouching that he “was old enough” to be served. The waiter complied, he says with a chuckle. The price of beer was much less back then, he 12

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adds. “There were nickel glasses and 10 cent glasses. That’s when I was working in construction and I was still underage, because in those days you had to be 21.”

“Now, you put your material in and it comes out right. It used to take two guys on the brake, now it’s just one. It has improved and things have speeded up and made it easier.”

There have been hiccups along the way in his career, especially when the shift happened between using Imperial and Metric systems for measurement of materials, in the 1970s. “On paper it worked out, but in reality it didn’t because the material was still in Imperial,” he recalls.

But hard work has never fazed Jewan, who recalls working 80-hour weeks for years. “You had to, in order to get the job out and in those days, time didn’t mean anything. You did what had to be done, that’s all.”

The two traits that have never wavered in Jewan are a strong work ethic and a positive outlook on life, which he credits with not getting hung up on age, and staying in shape. “A man has to keep his body and mind active in order to survive. You are only as old as you feel.

Some days you feel like you’re 100 and other days you feel like you’re 20,” he says with a smile.

higher learning U

nion members in the United Brotherhood of

Carpenters (UBC) have scores of training options at their disposal, and the best part: this higher education includes an all-expenses paid a trip to Las Vegas.

Randy Eppard, PhD, executive director of the UBC’s Department of Education and Training based out of the UBC’s International Training Center (ITC) in Las Vegas, says all of the programs have been so popular that most have waiting lists for enrolment. “Every program that we have is specific to the strategic priorities we have at the UBC. We have three strategic priorities: growth, skills and development and organizational effectiveness,” he says. Those interested in taking a course should contact their union’s executive secretary-treasurer, who has the authority to recommend members and contractors for offerings through the ITC. The classes are far from cookie cutter: “Everything that we teach is developed in-house. We use an adult learning model. When you think about trying to get somebody to learn something, the old model was a lecture and perhaps a workbook,” says Eppard. “Adults don’t learn that way. When we’re teaching we have to pay attention to experiential learning. That means you actually do things and, while you are doing things, you’re learning it.”

While some members might be familiar with the courses open to third-year apprentices and journeymen, such as the wildly popular .300 Hitter Program, new courses have been developed to improve the skills of members (and even non-member contractors). Delegate Training, Foreman Training and Communication Skills for Leaders are all on the roster. Most courses span from two to five days, with the average course length in the three-day range. All meals, accommodations and travel expenses (including flights) are covered.

“What we’re trying to do with professional development – as opposed to vocational education, which we’ve been really good at for a long time – is run about 15,000 people a year just through our department for professional development,” says Eppard. “We’re the only

Training options abound at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters’ International Training Center

By MARTIN DOVER union in the world doing anything like this.”

Classes range in size from 16 students to 180, depending on the course, and some, like Collaborative Leadership, are even open to nonunion members, says Eppard. All instructors, or facilitators as Eppard calls them, were carpenters at one point and have at least two years’ experience in the classroom.

“There’s not another one like it in the world. It’s a three-day program and we’re running it 40 times this year. We have a waiting list for that because it’s the first time any trade union has offered a course to non-members. Our signatory contractors can go to this – and they absolutely love it.”

While attendees are in Las Vegas for training they also have access to all the perks the 1.3-million-square-foot facility has to offer, including a 24-hour eatery with a chef, a gym and room and board at the ITC. For course delegates, it’s a “strict selection process, but once they are selected they don’t even have to bring money with them,” says Eppard.

“Their flight, their food, their room – everything is taken care of and at a very high level.”

For a full list of courses, program criteria and procedures, visit carpenters.org

IN DUE COURSE A sampling of classes available at the ITC: • • • • • • •

Collaborative Leadership: Building Jobsite Leaders Delegate Training; Building a Better, Stronger Union Foreman Training: Building a Solid Foundation Communication Skills for Leaders Marketing Training Public Speaking (Basic and Advanced) UBC Leadership: Building Teams for a Stronger Future

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W A pilot pre-apprenticeship construction program equips women for careers in carpentry and scaffolding

By MICHELLE LINDSTROM

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hile low oil prices have

many concerned about Alberta’s economic future, there has never been a better time for women to get into construction, says Jacqueline Andersen, employer services manager at Women Building Futures.

She says there will be a “massive amount of attrition” within the building trades in the coming years, due to an aging workforce. The average age of a carpenter in Alberta is 55, which will greatly affect the province’s construction industry in the near future, as workers approach retirement. Women Building Futures (WBF), says Andersen, has a typical demographic which falls between the ages of 22 and 44, so its programs are poised to nicely fill the pending gap.

The organization was established in 1998 to break down barriers for women eyeing

non-traditional career roles, and to provide them with the proper trainniche program. There are scores of opportunities in construction and ing for a successful future in the building trades. WBF purposely follows maintenance for trades people, he adds. an extensive recruitment and assessment process to assess and enroll Prerequisites for those applying include Grade 10 English and Math, applicants in their various programs. The process helps instill confidence or a GED. But construction experience is not necessary. “You can have in the 248 (and counting) companies that have so far hired the organiall the experience in the world, but if you don’t want to learn you can’t be taught,” Belliveau says, adding there is a large market out there that the zation’s grads. It also helps ensure that women who go through their programs have a job to go to after they have the proper skills and training. Alberta Carpenters Training Centre has not yet reached but he hopes this partnership will help change that.

“Oftentimes, the struggle for a person starting in the construction “There are a lot of women out there who want to go into the trades and industry is getting an employer to hire them without any experience,” hopefully we will help them take their first steps into the field,” he says.

Andersen says.

As a pre-apprenticeship program, the One program she is especially proud of “There are a lot of women out Carpenter and Scaffolder Readiness is the upcoming seven-week Carpenter and graduates will be ready to work at NWR Scaffolder Readiness course. The program, there who want to go into the returning to the Alberta Carpenters solely for women looking to enter the trades and hopefully we will help before Training Centre to initiate their first year of building trades, evolved from discussions them take their first steps into apprenticeship training. When they return between North West Redwater Sturgeon Refinery, the Alberta Carpenters Training the field,” says Colin Belliveau. back to work, their pay grade goes up and this is repeated every year they complete Centre and WBF back in April of 2015. “We a level of work experience and schooling. Carpentry is a four-year all just saw the value in working together,” Andersen says. apprenticeship training program before becoming a journeyman, while WBF is responsible for all of the marketing, recruiting, application scaffolding is currently a three-year apprenticeship program. review, workplace culture training and student selection before the “I still believe this is an excellent time for women to pursue a career in program’s start on June 23. Andersen explains that the workplace culture the trades, especially as an apprentice, because if they’re in a three-totraining focuses on best practices within the construction industry to ensure safety, productivity and success for each student. “The Carpenters four-year apprenticeship, they’ll be coming out in 2019/2020 when we will be looking at a different economic situation,” Andersen says.

Training Centre will handle all of the safety certifications as well as all of the hands-on skill building,” she adds.

The application deadline for the June 23 to August 12, 2016, Carpenter The pairing of skills for the program – carpentry and scaffolding – was and Scaffolder Readiness Program was April 11, 2016. But Andersen intended to help fill a future need at the refinery, which is located about 60 encourages women who are interested in the potential of a fall program kilometres northwest of Edmonton, as well as across Alberta. “We wanted starting, to visit the WBF website (womenbuildingfutures.com) or to give women as many options as possible,” Andersen says. “There is call the organization directly for more information, at 780-452-1200 or flexibility to tailor the program depending on which women are selected toll-free, 1-866-452-1201. and where their interests lie, which I think is fantastic.”

Colin Belliveau, director of training and apprenticeship at the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre, is certain the women will be prepared when they go onto a job site. “We’ll be teaching them how to use power tools in carpentry and how to cut and measure, while in scaffolding we’ll be teaching them about all of the material, knots and hand signals,” he says.

WBF will support the career development of the dozen selected students in conjunction with the hiring contractors on site at the Sturgeon refinery. Meanwhile, NWR is paying for the program and tuition for the women selected to train in this program, therefore an up-front expectation was that they will work on the Sturgeon Refinery project after the program ends, should they be offered a position with NWR. As a result, the participating women are receiving a valuable opportunity, Andersen says.

Adding that fact to contractors needing to cut costs–by using local resources, reducing travel costs and not bringing in foreign workers–due to the current economic downturn, companies are going to have to find alternate sources of labour, and WBF grads are exactly that.

“This is a pilot program but we’re hoping to do another one in the fall for NWR as well,” Andersen explains. “From conversations with Alberta Carpenters Training Centre, [we learned] the appetite and desire is there to create a longer-term partnership that extends into 2017 and beyond.”

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Rock On

First annual Local 1325 curling bonspiel a sweeping success for a noble cause

PHOTOS: EVAN MONTGOMERY

It was all hands on deck for Local 1325’s first annual curling bonspiel.

The March 19 event, held at the Edmonton Garrison Memorial Golf and Curling Club, saw an impressive turnout of 14 teams of all skill levels hitting the ice for a good cause.

Taking top honours was (skip) Al Minaker’s team, including (third) Ian Robertson, (second) John Northcott and (lead) Lyn Minaker.

The tournament raised $4,000 for Wounded Warriors Canada, a non-profit organization supporting and injured Canadian Armed Forces members, veterans and their families.

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Saving Our

Energy

By MARTIN DOVER

New council hopes to diversify the energy sector and bring jobs back to Alberta

FUTURE FOCUSED: Above, the Sturgeon Refinery project is one that could bring more construction jobs to Alberta or keep workers here.

RIGHT, Warren Fraleigh, executive director of the BTA is hopeful a new diversification council will help create more work in the building trades so Alberta workers can keep up on their apprenticeships.

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he head of the Building Trades of Alberta (BTA)

of about 9,000 construction workers and contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the provincial and municipal treasuries over is hoping a new council of industry, employer and labour the course of its lifespan.” associations can help diversify Alberta’s industry, all Fraleigh sees the council, which aims to attract billions of investwhile keeping apprentices working toward their ment dollars, including petrochemical and refinery development in journeyman tickets.

Warren Fraleigh, BTA’s executive director and a member of the new Alberta rather than seeing it lost to the U.S. Gulf Coast, as a potential Resource Diversification Council (RDC), says the organization, which creator of thousands of future jobs in the building trades.

“Apprentices can’t complete their apprenticeships if they don’t have was announced at an Edmonton press event in March, presents “an a job, so obviously anywhere we can opportunity that has never come in create jobs moving forward will front of us before, an opportunity “Apprentices can’t complete their us retain those apprentices,” to work collaboratively with owners apprenticeships if they don’t have a job, help Fraleigh says. and our contractors as a group.”

“They will find employment The RDC consists of eight member so obviously anywhere we can create jobs elsewhere if we’re not able to look groups so far, including Agrium, moving forward will help us retain those after them. The work that the Keyera, Northwest Refining, NOVA apprentices,” Fraleigh says. council is going to do in trying to Chemicals, Williams Energy, promote opportunities for diversithe Coordinating Committee of fication of our resources here in Alberta, that’s the kind of programs Registered Employer Organizations, Stantec and the Building Trades we need right now to keep apprentices employed and to encourage of Alberta. them to stay in their programs until they become journey people. ” The council’s chair, Naushad Jamani, who’s also a senior viceFraleigh hopes the council can help move forward projects president at NOVA Chemicals, says the group will work with governthat might still be up in the air, such as Williams Energy Canada’s ment to help bring investment – and future jobs, including many in proposed $3-billion Strathcona County propane dehydrogenation construction – to Alberta. Founding council members have $13 billion plant, and the later phases of the North West Redwater Sturgeon worth of projects either under construction or in final engineering Refinery Project. stages, says Jamani, and “at peak these projects would employ a total

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A L BERTA R EGI O N A L COU N C IL O F C AR P EN T ER S AN D ALLIED WORKER S

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PLEASE RESPOND BY FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2016 Fax form to: (780) 474-8910 Phone: (780) 474-8599 Make cheque payable to: Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers Mail to: Linda Helmeczi, Alberta Regional Council, 15210 123 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5V 0A3 All proceeds go to Juvenile Diabetes Research

Local 1460 Millwrights

Become Job Ready Help dispatchers and workforce coordinators help you on your path to the next jobsite

T

wenty years ago, dispatching members to jobsites was much

easier – a dispatcher called and you drove to the jobsite. The hardest part of the process was piling your tools into your vehicle.

These days, the millwrights dispatch system continues to change and evolve, and we now rely heavily on computer databases to keep it up-to-date. Job-ready skills are now easily searchable by both the dispatcher and the contractor. This means we can ensure you are fully qualified prior to sending you to a jobsite.

It is not uncommon for our members to have 20 tickets or more scanned to their profiles, with even more training being added continuously. Dispatch uses the contents of your profile to determine if you are qualified, or could become qualified, prior to the start date of a particular job.

Below are the contractors’ minimum, additional and millwright-specific skill requirements:

Minimum Requirements: Pre-access testing and courses in CSTS 09, OSSA Regional Orientation or Basic Safety Orientation (BSO), plus your own tools, trade credentials etc.

Ted Remenda, Senior Business Representative Local 1460 Millwrights

Additional Requirements: Courses in Confined Space Entry and/or Entry and Monitor, Fall Arrest, H2S Alive or Awareness, First Aid, WHMIS, Aerial Work Platform, Overhead Crane and Forklift, as well as supervisory training, physical capability, online orientations etc.

Specific Millwright Requirements: Rigging, Optical Leveling, Laser Alignment, Pump Rebuild, field and shop machine work, CWB designations, quality control, and construction and maintenance experience.

When a dispatched member is mobilized by the contractor’s workforce and travel coordinators, the member is asked to provide his or her proof of credentials, which can be inconvenient and time consuming. To assist with this, the training department uploads all member credentials to a UBC database called “TRAIN.” A Personal Identification Number (PIN) will be generated, allowing a contractor’s workforce and travel coordinators to view your credentials prior to your arrival on site. Contractors using this process have found it helpful.

We are proud to say we are the only union currently providing this service.

Ultimately our membership is rewarded by getting to the job site as quickly as possible – and job ready – which reflects very highly on us as a union.

The key to being lined up with work promptly is providing your credentials to Lisa Wilson in the Millwrights 1460 training department. For those of you who don’t already know, Lisa can be reached at (780) 733-2166 or lwilson@ millwrights1460.com.

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Geared Up

By MARTIN DOVER

Work Smarter, Not Harder MAKING THE CUT If you’re looking for a new cordless cutting tool, DEWALT’s recently released 20V MAX XR Brushless Deep Cut Band Saw is an excellent option. Providing fast cutting performance and a long runtime, it’s useful for many types of on-the-go construction tasks. “DEWALT’s 20V MAX XR Brushless Deep Cut Band Saw is a primary tool for mechanics, plumbers, and electricians that takes the job site one step closer to being fully cordless,” says Stephen Blain, commercialization manager for Professional Power Tools Canada.

At only 13.8 pounds (with a 5.0Ah battery), the band saw is a full 1.2 pounds lighter than DEWALT’s corded Band Saw. Plus, the 20-second delay LED work light enhances visibility for more accurate cutting. “The new Band Saw features premium ergonomics, an efficient brushless motor, and the versatility to cut a wide variety of materials,” says DEWALT, adding that it’s built for mechanical, electrical, HVAC, sprinkler, and general contractor applications. It features a 5-inch by 4-3/4-inch capacity to cut strut, pipe, angle iron, and various other materials. The unit also features a variable speed trigger and dial that gives users complete control of the blade speed.

The band saw (DCS374B) retails for $459 with a kitted version (DCS374P2) retailing for $799, and it’s available anywhere DEWALT products are sold. For more information, visit dewalt.com.

FINISHING TOUCH Osmo Polyx-Oil is a high-performing professional wood finish that has the added benefit of being environmentally friendly. Suitable for solid wood, laminated and cork floors, it can also be used on slate, terracotta and a variety of other unglazed tiles. Polyx Oil is also well suited for treating furniture, kitchen worktops, doors, MDF, oriented strand-board and other types of particle board. Because of its unique combination of natural oils and waxes, it can easily be spot repaired or restored with no sanding required. In fact, Ben Pickler, sales manager for Osmo Wood and Colour Canada, notes: “Once they are applied, our finishes are never sanded off the wood but instead are refreshed/renewed once a year or so with our ‘refresher’ product Liquid Wax Cleaner.” The finish is hard-wearing and extremely durable, won’t crack, flake, peel or blister, and is water-repellent and dirt resistant.

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forms a protecting microporous surface on the outside, it offers advantages over oil-based finishing systems and varnish and lacquer finishing systems.

Osmo is a German-based company that offers a variety of environmentally friendly wood finishing products using carefully harvested natural oils (sunflower, soya, linseed and thistle oils) and hard waxes (carnauba and candelilla waxes).

Osmo Polyx-Oil is available at Osmo Wood and Colour Canada Ltd., Carbon Environmental Boutique and Urban Timber Reclaimed Wood Company in Edmonton; Black Forest Wood Company and Rivas Eco Store in Calgary; and Western Woodwork in Canmore/Banff.

Generally speaking, an entire coating (two coats) on a floor would cost $0.50 per-square-foot for materials, says Pickler. For more information, visit osmo.ca.

FAN FARE With the temperature rising outdoors, it can be challenging to stay cool and comfortable on the job site.

Fortunately Ridgid has come out with the GEN5X 18-Volt Hybrid Fan, which is being billed as one of the quietest and most powerful fans of its kind in the industry. At top speed, it provides 475 CFM of air with only 53 dBA of noise, thanks to its Covert Air Technology. The hybrid fan can run for over 30 hours on a 4.0Ah 18-volt battery (sold separately) or can run continuously on an extension cord. With a swivel head providing 240 degrees of rotation up and down and 10 different hanging options, it’s easy to position in the workplace to allow you to get the air where you need it.

Other features include a variable speed dial to allow you to easily adjust the fan speed, a rubber handle that provides excellent portability and durable cage and base construction that allows it to withstand tough job site conditions. Keep in mind the fan doesn’t oscillate so it’s most useful if you’re working in one spot rather than moving around in a large space.

The hybrid fan is available at Home Depot for $69.97.

For more information on the product, visit www.ridgid.com/ca.

Kid Zone

By KIM TANNAS

Did you Know

For the Birds Want to try a fun project that will keep the neighbourhood birds happily

Fun facts about our feathered friends

chirping all season long? Try making a bird feeder! You’ll need special tools for the one below, so be sure to ask for help from an adult. But there are many other ways to build a bird feeder, using anything from Popsicle sticks to Lego, so don’t be afraid to get creative.

Here’s what you’ll need: Rope Natural peanut butter Birdseed

• The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to 9.2 feet tall.

• The hummingbird is the only type of bird that can fly backwards.

• Penguins can jump as high as six feet in the air.

• An albatross can sleep while it flies. It snoozes while cruising at 40 kilometres per hour.

• The common loon can dive more than 76 metres below the water’s surface.

• Edmonton is often called the Peregrine falcon capital of Canada, with birds returning every year to nest on the downtown highrises.

Drill with 7/8 inch bit and 1 1/2 inch bit A sturdy, 16-inch-tall log (with bark), about 3 to 4 inches in diameter Handsaw

1 Cut the log to size.

2 Using the 1 1/2 inch drill bit, drill five alternating holes down the branch, spaced three to four inches apart. Make them about an inch deep.

3 Drill a small hole near the top, straight through the piece of wood, and insert a rope to hang the bird feeder.

4 Combine the peanut butter and birdseed in a container. Using a small knife or your fingers, fill each hole of the bird feeder with the peanut butter mixture.

5 Hang your bird feeder and wait for visitors – this type typically attracts woodpeckers, chickadees and squirrels.

Word Search The names of 15 types of birds are hidden below. Search for them up, down, forward, backward, and on the diagonal.

BLUEBIRD CHICKADEE EAGLE FALCON GOOSE HAWK HERON HUMMINGBIRD KINGFISHER PELICAN PENGUIN PIGEON ROBIN SPARROW WOODPECKER

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Meet the Journeyman

By WILLOW WHITE

Double Duty

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yan Kenzie is relatively new to the union, but

working up North. The work would be more consistent and he wouldn’t have to worry about the inconsistencies of running his own business, they advised. So, in September 2014, Kenzie joined the union. At first, he worked for a construction company up North, building oilfield camps, and he was quickly promoted to a supervisory position.

“It’s a little late in life, but I made a change and I’ve really enjoyed it.”

Since June of last year, Kenzie’s been scaffolding – and it’s going well.

As a result, Kenzie gets more time with his family. “Days off are days off,” he says. There is also a lot of opportunity to advance. “It’s a little late in life, but I made a change and I’ve really enjoyed it,” he says.

With years of experience in multiple building trades, coupled with his skills and business savvy, Kenzie is finding great success in this new chapter of his life. It’s likely that Kenzie will continue to pursue leadership posts, he says. “Most of my experience in the industry is running large crews – anywhere from four to 30 guys,” Kenzie explains. “I see myself moving up in the ranks.”

PHOTO: DARRLY PROPP

carpentry has been part of his life since he was a teenager. In high school, Kenzie started taking framing classes for credit, and he never looked back. In 1997, he chose carpentry as a career path to pursue.

Though he had his own framing business for many years, today Ryan is part of the union as a journeyman scaffolder and a journeyman carpenter.

From 2002 to 2014, Kenzie owned his own company, framing multi-family homes and custom-design homes. He worked on exciting projects (multimillion-dollar homes on the B.C. coast, for example), but after a while he started feeling run down. “I just got tired of running my own stuff,” he says. It was a hassle, he says, for him to constantly have to collect payments from clients and pursue new projects, and he felt that even when he was home with his wife and kids, he was worrying about work.

Both Kenzie’s cousin and brother-in-law are journeyman scaffolders.

For years, they had been talking to Kenzie about the benefits of being in the union, Local 1325, explaining that he could make a good living

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Meet the Apprentice

By WILLOW WHITE

Like Father, Like Son

B

efore moving to Canada 10 years ago, Ahmed

Imdlas was a carpenter in his hometown of Casablanca, Morocco. Many people in his family worked in carpentry, and Imdlas’s father taught his son the craft. Morocco, of course, has different carpentry needs than Alberta. For example, houses are not traditionally made out of wood, so Moroccan carpentry typically involves building window frames, doors and furniture. Over the years Imdlas became an expert in these areas, but when he moved to Alberta he needed a different set of skills. At first he found work as a chef but, by chance, he stumbled back into carpentry.

One day, a friend of Imdlas needed a ride to one of the local union offices. Imdlas’s friend wanted to join the union and he realized that he could, too. “So that’s how my story starts,” says Imdlas, “just by giving a ride.” The union was his chance to work in carpentry again. “That’s the magic,” says Imdlas.

“It’s the way that I started my career and it changed my life.”

Imdlas had to start his training in the first-year apprenticeship program even though he had a lot of experience in carpentry already. But he never complains. “I started my program at the beginning to get more knowledge,” says Imdlas. “The knowledge never ends. You can always learn different things. If you go to Japan you learn different stuff and if you go to China you learn different stuff. That’s my opinion.”

“The knowledge never ends. You can always learn different things.”

PHOTO: DARRYL PROPP

Today, Imdlas is taking courses through the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre and NAIT. And the union helps him pay for the training. Though he takes pride in his already existing skills as a carpenter, he is happy to learn more about the trade. “I don’t care about age,” he says. “Age never stops a person from learning.”

One of his other passions is learning languages, Imdlas explains. He is fluent in five languages, including Spanish, which he and his family speak at home as his wife is from Mexico.

His three kids also speak multiple languages. It’s an important part of their family life. “I like to learn new languages,” he says.

“That’s one of the things I hope to do – learn more languages, to get to communicate with more people.”

For now, Imdlas is happy to be back at carpentry, pursuing the career he loves.

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on the level

A PLEDGE FOR PARITY Now that women account for half of the labour force, they help unions build up strength

By BRANDI THORNE

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very year, International Women’s Day (IWD) is

marked on March 8 to celebrate the achievements of women and focus attention on their continued efforts. This year, the worldwide campaign’s theme was titled “Pledge for Parity.” This year in Edmonton members of the Alberta Regional Council, in solidarity with other women and supporters, marched down Whyte Avenue. Given the theme, it was an impressive statement to have equal numbers of men and women from our union and from our friends at the Building Trades of Alberta’s unions.

Why is gender parity important to unionized construction? A quick study of the history of the Canadian labour movement will reveal that division among workers has led to inequality. In the past, women workers have been used as strikebreakers and also as a supply of cheap labour. Obviously much has changed over the years, but the principle remains the same. As trade unionists, we cannot afford to allow the “divide and conquer” of our workforce. We must support and unify all construction workers, and since women today account for half of the labour force, we must strive to include more women in unionized construction.

Gender parity is now essential to growing our membership and providing the best skilled and best performing workforce.

So, what is your union doing about gender parity? One of the most significant benefits of working within a union is the collective bargaining process. Pay equity is not an issue for unionized women; we already have equal pay for equal work. This union goes farther: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters has organized an extensive network of Sisters in the Brotherhood committees across Canada and the United States.

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being our sisters’ keepers, the Sisters in the Brotherhood (SIB) helps inform union strategies, helps to achieve strategic goals, strengthens membership cohesion and group diversity, and provides another avenue for organizing.

In Alberta, our SIB members sit on the Build Together team at the Building Trades of Alberta and work collectively to find solutions. Recently, the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre and Alberta Carpenters and Allied Workers Trust Funds have also partnered up with Women Building Futures to recruit and train for a carpenter/scaffolder readiness program (for more on this, see page 10). Finally, there are countless members, both male and female, who pass on their trade knowledge and professional expertise to all our new members. For that we thank them.

Gender parity is now essential to growing our membership and providing the best skilled and best performing workforce.

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and the Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers are working to make this happen. Will you Pledge for Parity?

REPORT

Training and Apprenticeship

New Policy for Training No-Shows

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ecently I have been getting a lot of calls from members saying

that they cannot get into training classes. Given that our classes are not being filled, it appears as though the problem stems from a lack of understanding of the sign-up process. A review of the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre’s (ACTC) policies should help members get the training they are requesting while also filling our classes to capacity.

First and most importantly, if you are on the waiting list and want to get into a course, it is your responsibility to make sure that the ACTC has your correct contact information. If you are unsure if it’s up-to-date, contact your local union hall to confirm that all of your contact information is correct. We will communicate with you through your email if we have your address on file, so be sure to check your email inbox on a regular basis. If you’d rather communicate by phone, please make sure there is room on Our waiting list policy has your voicemail for someone to leave a message. changed due to the number When the new schedule of no-shows and members comes out, our classes get not getting back to the ACTC filled from the waiting list. Our waiting list policy has changed to confirm their upcoming due to the number of no-shows attendance. and members not getting back to the ACTC to confirm their upcoming attendance. Once you receive a confirmation from the ACTC of the dates during which you will be attending training, it is your responsibility to respond to the training centre with a confirmation of your attendance.

If you do not respond to the confirmation letter, email or phone call within one week of the course starting, you will be removed from the class list. After the second attempt by the ACTC to book you for training with no reply, you will be removed from the waiting list. It will then be your responsibility to call in and get your name added to the waiting list, this time at the bottom. You do not get to keep your old waiting list number.

Once you have confirmed your upcoming training, it is your responsibility to notify the training centre at least 24 hours prior to the class starting in the event that you are unable to attend. If you do not notify the training centre, you will be charged a no-show fee, you will not qualify for training or reimbursement through the ACTC and you will not be dispatched to a job until your no-show fee is paid in full.

Again, our classes are not being filled. If you want to take training, please

Colin Belliveau, Director of Training and Apprenticeship Alberta Carpenters Training Centre colin@abcarptc.ab.ca confirm that your contact information is correct, and it’s also a good idea to call a week prior to the course start date to check on cancellations.

If you have any questions about the no-show policy, call the training centre at (780) 455-6532 or fill out the email form at abcarptc.ab.ca/sections/contact.

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Parting Shot

The Art Gallery of Alberta

Designed by late Los Angeles architect Randall Stout, the renovated Art Gallery of Alberta opened to the public across from City Hall in downtown Edmonton on January 31, 2010, and is punctuated by its modern, curved stainless steel, glass and zinc exterior. With a price tag of $88 million, the 7,900-square-metre space includes almost double the exhibition space of the original 1968 building, as well as a restaurant, gallery shop and a 150-seat theatre. The AGA’s collection includes more than 6,000 Canadian and international works of art, ranging from paintings and sculptures, to installation works and photographs.

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UPCOMING

Training + Events

MEETINGS First Wednesday of each month: Local 1235 meeting Third Thursday of each month: Local 2103 meeting Fourth Tuesday of each month: Local 1460 meeting TRAINING Alberta Carpenters Training Centre The following is a sample of training courses that are open for registration at the time of publication of this edition of Hard Hat. For full listing or more information on training courses, visit abcarptc.ab.ca or phone the Edmonton office at 780-455-6532 or toll-free at 1-877-455-6532.

All courses are at the Edmonton location unless otherwise indicated.

Aerial Work Platform: June 6-7, 2016 H2S Alive May 5, 2016 Industrial Technical Training May 23, 2016 to Jun 5, 2016 OSSA Confined Space Entry and Monitor April 30, 2016 MILLWRIGHTS TRAINING CENTRE Visit www.albertamillwrights.com for a current listing of training courses available.

In Memoriam ARCCAW notes with sorrow the passing of the following members.

LOCAL 1325 Wayne Young January 12, 2016 Age 49 James Edward Bird January 30, 2016 Age 63 Rodrigue Belzile January 31, 2016 Age 67 Karl Mader February 3, 2016 Age 67 Edward Chudy February 7, 2016 Age 73 Bertrand Dugas February 18, 2016 Age 60 Patrick Jessome March 13, 2016 Age 38 Charles Duncan March 16, 2016 Age 69 Walter Raedeke March 21, 2016 Age 63 Ronald MacIntyre March 31, 2016 Age 87 Paul McDermid April 6, 2016 Age 42 John Cowan April 12, 2016 Age 37 LOCAL 1460 Drew Foster January 15, 2016 Age 52 LOCAL 2103 John Schlosser February 5, 2016 Age 76

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