Quick Updates
For February 2012
Check the Monthly Numbers page or click to see the December 2011 work hours! We concluded the year with close to 30,000,000 maintenance work hours recorded, a major milestone for our industry. This year the Committee celebrates it's 60th continuous year as a trades council. A significant achievement! Stay tuned.
The new Alberta GPMA's are posted on the Collective Agreements Page and are available for downloading. The Agreements cover listed projects in Ft. McMurray, Edmonton area and the Calgary area. The Agrements are effective January 1, 2012 until December 31, 2015. Employers are authorized to implement the new terms and conditions of the agreements 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.
