Earlier this week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their latest new applications report for July 2025. In it was an application for union certification.
Local 401 of the United Food and Commercial Workers filed the application on 10 July 2025 on behalf of workers employed at Dot Transportation Canada, Inc, also known as DTI Canada.
Based out of Ontario, Dot Transportation Canada is a division of an Illinois based company called Dot Foods. Dot Transportation Canada has a distribution centre in Calgary
AUPE is trying to organize a bargaining unit at this Calgary facility that would include about 14 drivers and dispatch workers.
Before a union can submit an application for union certification, they must demonstrate that they have the support of at least 40% of the workers in that bargaining unit. That works out to 6 workers in this case.
The labour board has scheduled a hearing for next Thursday (24th), during which time the employer can argue why they think these workers shouldn’t be able to join Local 401.
Should the ALRB approve the application, they will conduct a certification vote, allowing workers to democratically choose on whether to join AUPE. Assuming all 6 of the workers who initially supported unionization vote in favour, they’d have to convince just 2 more of their fellow workers to do the same.
If the workers successfully unionize, their first step will be to elect a bargaining committee and begin negotiating a collective agreement.
Because the ALRB doesn’t archive their new application reports, I’ve included a copy of this report below.
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