Quick Updates
For January 2012
Welcome to 2012. We hope you had an safe and enjoyable Christmas and New Year Holiday!!
Check the Monthly Numbers page or click to see the November 2011 work hours! More than 28,300,000 work hours have been reported in total on maintenance projects across Canada. We are heading to our largest work volume ever!
The GPMA Terms of Settlement document was sent out to GPMC members, employers and local unions December 22, 2011. The new agreement will be published in the normal manner. Employers are authorized to implement the terms of the new agreement effective January 1, 2012.
General Presidents’ Maintenance Committee
The General Presidents' Maintenance Committee for Canada is a Council of Unions in which all of the Building Trades Unions participate at the International level of the Union.
The Committee, working in a cooperative and positive way with industrial maintenance contracting firms, negotiates and administers multi-craft collective agreements which cover maintenance work at many major resource and industrial facilities in Canada.
The system is long standing and secure. Our system has an enviable 59 year track record of providing skilled maintenance workers from the various local unions to meet the on-going maintenance needs of major industrial owners.
The Committee delivers two types of maintenance agreement. The General Presidents' Maintenance Agreement (GPMA) - providing on-going long-term maintenance work in a single contractor, multi-trade environment and the National Maintenance Agreement (NMA) (through the vehicle of the National Maintenance Council) providing a multi-craft collective agreement for short duration/intermittent maintenance work in a multi-contractor setting.
