Last week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their final new applications report for February 2026. In it was an application for unionization.
Local 362 of the Teamsters filed the application on 19 February 2026 on behalf of workers employed by Trimac Energy Services Ltd.
The company is a division of Trimac Transportation, which is based in Calgary. Trimac Transportation is, unsurprisingly, primarily a transportation company. As such, Trimac Energy Services transports product related to the energy sector, such as oil, natural gas, liquid nitrogen, aggregates, sand, sulphur, and so on.
The application that Local 362 filed mentioned that it was for all dependent contractors of Trimac Energy, specifically those with “Division E01140”, which the union estimated to be about 80 workers.
A second application that was similarly worded explicitly excluded workers in office, clerical, or dispatching positions.
Earlier this week, the first new applications report of March 2026 had a third application regarding this unionization attempt changed the number of workers to 60.
To file a certification application in Alberta, workers must demonstrate that they have support from at least 40% of those who would be part of the proposed bargaining unit. In this case, that would be 32 workers.
The Alberta Labour Relations Board has scheduled a hearing for later today. During this hearing, Trimac Energy will have a chance to present any arguments they might have regarding why they think these workers should not unionize with Local 362
Should the labour board go ahead with the certification application, those 32 workers, assuming they follow through and actually vote in favour of unionizing, would need to convince just 9 more of their fellow workers to vote with them. This would give them the majority they would need to become certified.
If the vote is successful and these workers end up unionized, one of their first actions will be to form a bargaining committee to start negotiating their first collective agreement.
