In previous messages, we’ve expressed that ATU Canada worked with the Canadian Labour Congress to develop a comprehensive, considered opinion about the mandating of COVID vaccines. ATU Local 569 ascribes to that opinion. Here are a few of the things it says: Canada’s unions strongly support vaccination against COVID-19 for every Canadian that can be…

By now many of you have heard that ETS Main is going to be voting on a contract. So, what’s going on? In the course of our ETS Main negotiations over the past year, the City has made harsh demands. They want to cut maintenance workers’ signups down from 3 a year to 1 per…

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…