Earlier this week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their first new applications report of September 2026, which covered all the applications they received between the 6th and the 13th.
One of those applications was for union certification.
Local 2103 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America filed the application on 10 September 2026 for workers employed by Unique Scaffold Inc.
Based out of Calgary but with a location also in Edmonton, Unique Scaffold is a full service scaffold company offering scaffold sales, rental, design, and building across Western Canada.
This application is specifically for general construction carpenters, which the union estimated to include 55 workers.
They filed similar applications for maintenance carpenters and non-construction carpenters.
When a union files for union certification in Alberta, they must demonstrate support from at least 40% of the workers who would be included in this bargaining unit. In this case, that would be 22 workers.
The labour board has scheduled a hearing for next Friday (25th), during which time, representatives of the employer can table arguments, if they have any, as to why they think these workers should be unable to unionize with Local 2013.
The report listed Jason Procyk and Mish Rose as employer representatives, who are the company’s president and vice president of business operations, respectively.
Should the ALRB approve the application, they will hold a certification vote, and workers will be able to democratically choose whether to unionize.
Assuming the 22 workers who showed their initial support follow through and vote in favour, they would need to convince 6 more of their fellow workers to join them in order for the unionization drive to be successful.
If a majority of the workers vote in favour of unionize and the ALRB awards them their union certificate, one of their first items of business will be to elect their bargaining committee to start negotiating their first collective agreement.
Because the ALRB does not archive their new application reports, I have included a copy of this week’s report below for your convenience.
