The Alberta Labour Relations Board publishes a list of all the certificates they’ve issued for unionized workplaces in the province.
They update it every month, with the latest update being 4 August 2026.
I thought I would report on 4 certificates that the ALRB issued in July 2026.
Technically, there were another 39 certificates, which the ALRB issued for members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, but they were are simply because the UCP government had renamed school divisions back in 2019, and these certificates reflect the new names.
Care Calgary Inc.
The first certificate issued by the ALRB last month was for about 65 workers in Calgary.
The employer is Care Calgary Inc., which specializes in demand-driven accessible transportation services for municipalities.
Local 583 of the Amalgamated Transit Union filed the certification application on 12 June 2026 for all Care Calgary workers except those in office or clerical positions. Primarily, they are accessible transit operators.
These workers had belonged to a local of Christian Labour Association of Canada since 2019. This is not the first time workers have voted to leave CLAC, which researchers claim they use “employer accommodationist strategies that undermine other unions”.
For example, hundreds of blue collar workers left CLAC at the end of last year to join Local 955 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.
The ALRB approved the certification on 3 July 2026.
These workers met last week for the first time since unionizing to get to know each other and begin planning for negotiating their new collective agreement.
Age Care Investments Ltd.
The next certification came over 3 weeks later when the ALRB approved workers employed by Age Care Investments Ltd. as a bargaining unit.
Based in Calgary, AgeCare manages over 50 aging-in-place facilities in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario.
These workers had actually been covered under a previous certificate since 2014. That certificate was for all workers in so-called auxiliary nursing care at Beverly Centre Glenmore, now called AgeCare Glenmore.
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees filed the application back in April to change that certificate to “all employees at AgeCare Dawson when employed in auxiliary nursing care”.
AgeCare Glenmore in Calgary closed down in the spring, and AgeCare Dawson is a brand new facility that recently opened in Chestermere.
AUPE is basically transferring an existing collective agreement from a defunct workplace to a brand new workplace.
ALRB approved the transfer on the 27th.
Calgary Board of Education Staff Association
The final certificate issued by ALRB last month came on the last day of July.
It was for workers employed by the Calgary Board of Education Staff Association, which represents about 5,000 support workers in the Calgary public school division.
The CBESA itself employs workers to help them represent those education support workers, and it is these CBESA workers who unionized with Local 397 of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union.
COPE 397 represents office workers in several other union locals in Alberta, including ATU, Boilermakers, Carpenters, CUPE, IAMAW, IATSE, IBEW, and UA. The also represent workers employed by the Alberta NDP, the Alberta Federation of Labour, and the labour councils in both Calgary and Edmonton.
