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 92 of the Construction and General Workers’ Union—also known as Laborers’ International Union of North America or just LIUNA—submitted the application on 13 November 2025 for workers employed by Alliance Refractories Ltd.
Based out of Edmonton, Alliance Refractories offers procurement and construction services to new and maintenance projects throughout Western Canada.
Alliance Refractories has operations in Bonnyville, Calgary, Edmonton, and Fort McMurray, as well as in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Richmond, British Columbia.
According to the application summary, Local 92 applied for certification on behalf of 10 workers employed in the company’s Edmonton facility.
They will include all those who are not in office, clerical, or maintenance position or those who are already represented by Local 1 of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.
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 4 workers.
The ALRB has scheduled a hearing for this Friday (28th) regarding this application. During the hearing, Alliance can present reasons, if any, why they think these workers should not join Local 92.
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 4 workers who originally said they support unionization follow through and vote in favour, they would need to convince just 2 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.
