The Unions representing City workers signed a Letter of Understanding with the City declaring September 30 “a day of honouring and acknowledging Truth and Reconciliation.” While it is not, technically, a Statutory Holiday, “the parties agree that the Statutory Holiday provisions of each respective collective agreement will apply on this date;” Thus, ATU members are…

None of our employers have, yet, put in place a mandatory vaccine policy. The City of Edmonton is considering it. The City of Calgary has done it. The City of Toronto has done it. It could come to us.   The Canadian Labour Congress, working with its affiliates, including ATU, has developed a unified statement…

Councillor Jon Dziadyk sends out his best wishes to ATU retirees in lieu of the cancelled banquet. Click here to view message.  

After careful consideration and in view of the rising COVID curve in Edmonton, the Union has taken the decision to, once again, cancel our retirement banquet, which was scheduled for September 25, 2021. It’s very important to us to celebrate our members’ careers and we look forward to gathering together to do that, perhaps in…

In consideration to mandatory vaccination policies in Canada, CLC ( Canadian Labour Congress) affiliates, including ATU Canada, discussed and identified several common concerns, priorities and principles with the goal of establishing a policy with the effort of capturing labour’s principles and priorities. ATU Canada president, John Di Nino, and Executive of ATU Local 569 fully support CLC’s policy statement…

Edmonton—As Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna took turns re-announcing funding that already existed and touting ‘good union jobs’ on an Edmonton Transit platform, transit workers took over the stage with a banner of the heads of over 1500 transit workers in the ATU with the emblazoned words: “STOP CONTRACTING OUT OUR…