ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • No rollbacks or enabling in collective agreements

  • Negotiated industry-leading contracts

  • Two 5% pension increases for members in good standing (totaling more than 10% earned rise)

  • Delivered the one-billionth pension dollar in Dec. 2023

  • Changed benefits provider to improve member experience

  • Secured, for the first time in Alberta’s history, government funding for the Budd Coutts Apprenticeship & Education Centre (first union to ever receive this support from any provincial government) for both Mobile Crane 1 and Mobile Crane 3 courses.

  • Successfully lobbied government to get “agency status” and the ability to indenture apprentices

  • Quarterbacked 75th anniversary celebrations across the province in 2023

  • First to create budget to show financial responsibility and accountability

  • Real estate investments up 274%

  • Took pay cut during COVID, along with IUOE 955 staff

  • Exited Building Trades of Alberta (BTA)

  • Invested in government relations and communications

  • Invested in organizing

  • Ensuring merit based hiring includes more underrepresented groups, both at the union hall and in the field

  • Introduced dispatch reform, hybrid system

  • Restored pride and solidarity in IUOE 955