Last week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their latest new applications report for November 2025. In it was a new application for union certification.
Local 2103 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America submitted the application on 10 November 2025 for workers employed by Skyline Concrete Services Ltd.
Based out of Calgary, Skyline Concrete Services offers a wide variety of concrete solutions for clients ranging from light commercial to heavy industrial.
According to the application summary, Local 2103 applied for certification on behalf of 43 Skyline workers, all of whom are general construction carpenters.
To apply for certification, unions must demonstrate that they have support from at least 40% of the workers who would be represented by the bargaining unit. In this case, this would be 14 workers.
The ALRB has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow regarding this application. During the hearing, Skyline can present reasons, if any, why they think these workers should not join Local 2013.
Should the ALRB approve the application, they will organize a certification vote, during which time, the workers can democratically choose whether to unionize.
Assuming the 13 workers who originally said they support unionization follow through and vote in favour, they would need to convince 8 more of their fellow workers to vote with them to win.
If the workers do succeed in unionizing, one of the first things they will need to do would be creating a bargaining team, so they can begin negotiations on their collective agreement.
Because the ALRB does not archive their new application reports, I have included a copy of last week’s report below.
