2024 Collective Bargaining

Kent Irving, Mike Cantley, Mike Foat

Alternate - Bryan Ross

June 28, 2024

 This week your Bargaining Committee headed to Regina to meet with the Company and initiate bargaining our new CBA.  We spent the first day in a Chain Bargaining meeting with our sister Local 5890.  We went through our proposals one last time to ensure that they were ready for the exchange.  The following day with met with representatives of Evraz who presented us with a state of the business.  Even with challenges from a lower price of Hot Rolled Plate and from foreign dumping, the upcoming forecast for the Calgary plant seems stable.  They gave us a presentation on the ongoing payroll  issues associated with Workday.  They realize there is a problem and are working on a system rebuild, but this will not be fully completed until the fall.  This was followed by an exchange of Local Non-monetary Proposals.  We did not come to much agreement other than on simple grammatical housekeeping issues.  However, we are scheduled to meet the last week of July to bargain with the Company again.  Stay unified and strong and we will keep you updated as to our progress. 

May 14, 2024

The Union and the Company will be meeting on June 25/24 to open bargaining.

We will meet with the Regina local on the 24th, then the company on the 25th. We look to be exchanging proposals on the 25th.  

We will commence with Local bargaining as soon as the company gives us possible dates.

Thank you