ALRB certified 5 more unionized workplaces

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 9 January 2025.

I thought I’d report on 6 certificates that the ALRB awarded in December 2024.

The first certificate that the ALRB issued last month was for workers employed by Carewest, the largest public care provider in Calgary and one of the largest in Canada.

This certificate specifically covers those working in direct nursing care or nursing instruction at the company’s Garrison Green location in Southwest Calgary.

These workers will be represented by the United Nurses of Alberta, who received the certificate on 4 December 2024. They had filed their application less than a month before, on 14 November 2024.

The UNA represents registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses at the company’s Colonel Belcher, Rouleau Manor, Signal Pointe, Sarcee, Beddington, Glenmore Park, and Dr. Vernon Fanning locations.

The second certificate the ALRB issued was for 112 workers employed at Oosita Bluewater SCL GP Limited, not including office or clerical workers, supervisors, or those working in quality control or sales.

These workers also applied for union certification in November, and the ALRB issued their certificate on 7 November 2024.

These workers will be represented by Local 955 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

That same day, on the 6th, maintenance insulators employed with Brock Canada Industrial Ltd. received their certificate from the ALRB.

Local 1999 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America had filed the certification application on 14 April 2023, making it the longest delay in certification of all of last month’s certificates.

A week later, on the 13th, the ALRB issued a certificate for about 250 specialized learning supports consultants employed in the Edmonton Public School system.

These workers help teachers and other educational workers plan or modify student programming, support transitioning between grades and programmes, and create an inclusive learning environment.

Local 3550 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who will be representing these workers, filed the application nearly 6 months prior, on 27 June 2024.

Next up was Local 569 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which applied for certification at the beginning of 2024.

This certificate is specifically for 13 transit controllers and train crew supervisors employed by TransEd O&M Partners General Partnership, which is responsible for designing and building stage one of the Valley Line component of Edmonton’s light rail transit system, as well as operating and maintaining the line for 30 years.

The ALRB issued the certificate on 19 December 2024.

The final workplace to receive a union certificate was Daikin Comfort Technologies Canada, ULC, which also received theirs on the 19th. The certificate will apply to all workers with office, clerical, and sales responsibilities at the company’s Calgary location.

They’ll be represented by Local 1722 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who have represented all the other workers at this location since the summer of 2023.

Local 1722 applied for certification on behalf of the office workers on 2 December, so they had to wait only 17 days to get certification, the quickest certification of all the ones issued last month.