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.
In 2012, the General Presidents' Maintenance Committee will reach 60 years of continuous operation as a trades council. The first multi-trade maintenance collective agreement in North America was negotiated between the unions forming the Committee and Catalytic Construction of Canada in Sarnia, Ontario to cover maintenance work at what is now the Shell refinery.
This beginning has developed into a system that covers many industrial facilities in 8 of the 10 Canadian provinces. The maintenance work covered by the GPMA and NMA collective agreements provides the equivalent of 14,000 full time, high paying jobs for skilled building trades workers. There are currently 20 maintenance employers using the GPMA at various locations while over 100 employers regularly work under the NMA. Copies of all of these collective agreements can be downloaded from the Collective Agreements section of the site.
The unions that compose the Committee are committed to preserving for their members the maintenance work developed over the last 59 years. This will be accomplished by negotiating and administering fair but competitive agreements. The committee is also committed to establishing new maintenance sites in areas where it is advantageous for the unions, employers and owner-clients to do so.
In recent years, the Committee has invested significant resources to spread the message as to the benefits of using skilled building trades' union members for maintenance work. The Committee has partnered with the Alberta Building Trades Council, the Mainland Nova Scotia Building Trades Council, the New Brunswick Building trades Council and the Canadian Office of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department to name a few, in marketing activities to get this message across to interested client organizations.
