OETIO Receives $936,162 in Federal Funding

Written by Local 793 Staff

Federal Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Minister Patricia Hajdu has announced $936,162 in funding for the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario (OETIO). The funds will be used to purchase an all-terrain crane for the OETIO campus in Oakville and equip a number of dozers with Global Positioning Systems and laser technology at Morrisburg. Hajdu made the announcement at an event attended by apprentices, Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher and president Joe Redshaw at the OETIO in Morrisburg on April 4. In remarks at the event, Gallagher thanked the […]

Federal Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Minister Patricia Hajdu has announced $936,162 in funding for the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario (OETIO).

The funds will be used to purchase an all-terrain crane for the OETIO campus in Oakville and equip a number of dozers with Global Positioning Systems and laser technology at Morrisburg.

Hajdu made the announcement at an event attended by apprentices, Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher and president Joe Redshaw at the OETIO in Morrisburg on April 4.

In remarks at the event, Gallagher thanked the government for the funding and for being a trailblazer in recognizing the important role that unions play in training the workforce.

“The federal funding will greatly benefit our apprentices and members as well as people from Aboriginal and Inuit communities who are referred to the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario for training by mining companies and communities in the far North.”

The money is part of $10.2 million being made available under the Union Training and Innovation Program to help unions purchase new and up-to-date training equipment and materials.

Gallagher said he’s pleased that Local 793 and the OETIO received nearly 10 per cent of the funds.

“One thing that’s challenging for Operating Engineers, as I’m sure you all realize, is that our tools are a little bit more expensive than most of the other trades, so that will help us.”

Under terms of the program, the federal government is providing 48 per cent of the cost of equipment purchases while Local 793 is providing 52 per cent.

Gallagher said the union will use part of the funds to buy a mobile all-terrain crane which should be on site in Oakville by October.

He said a request for proposals is going out April 6. Total cost of the crane will be $1,130,00. The union is contributing $587,438 and the government is contributing $542,562.

The funds will also be used to outfit six dozers at the OETIO campus in Morrisburg with GPS systems. The union will contribute $335,400 and the government will contribute $309,600.

Another six dozers at Morrisburg will also be outfitted with laser capabilities. The union will contribute $91,000 and the government will contribute $84,000.

All in, Gallagher said, with the government commitment of $936,162 and union contribution of $1,013,938, the purchase budget for the crane and dozer systems is $1.95 million.

“I’m very, very delighted,” he said in his remarks. “I can’t say any more about how well the money will be used to make sure we have the best Operating Engineers and tradesmen and tradeswomen in the province of Ontario and in the Territory of Nunavut.”

Hajdu said in her remarks that she was very excited to announce the funding for Local 793 and other unions because it will help them buy the equipment they need to train workers.

“I’ll be very excited to come back and see the crane when you receive it next October,” she said.

Hajdu, who has a son in the trades, praised unions and the work that they do, and encouraged apprentices at the event to continue with their training.

“The only reason we have a middle class in Canada is because of the efforts of organized labour,” she said. “It was labour movements across this country and across many other countries that led to things like decent work and safe working conditions.”

Hajdu said unions fought for decent working conditions and to get workers good pensions so they can retire comfortably after working 20 or 30 years in the field and that’s why the government is focused on ensuring they have the tools to keep growing.

She said there are 65,000 skilled trades positions vacant across Canada right now and the stigma associated with the trades is one of the reasons there aren’t enough applicants.

“We still have a narrative out there in this country that college and skilled trades training is okay, but university is better.”

She congratulated apprentices at the event for taking up training and changing the narrative.

“You have made absolutely the right choice for you and you need to be part of the generation that turns that story around and that teaches people that these trades are noble professions that require intelligence and precision and a degree of discipline.”

Hajdu said it’s exciting to see what the Operating Engineers and other trades are doing to get women and under-represented communities into the careers.

She noted there will be a lot of jobs in future in the resource-rich Ring of Fire area in Ontario and the government wants to ensure there are enough skilled people to fill those positions.

“That’s exactly what the Operating Engineers are doing right here today – making sure people have those skills so that when those opportunities come about they can take advantage of that.”

Hajdu said unions, government, industry and employers must work together to get more people into the trades.

“When we work together, everybody’s going to have an opportunity to thrive and choose a career for them that’s going to support themselves and also their families and I believe it is the unions that are going to continue that drive towards a healthy middle class.”

Hajdu said a job in the trades provides workers and families with a strong foundation for prosperity.

“I’m really excited about the work we’re going to do to make sure that Canada keeps on that track of a really inclusive, prosperous economy where everybody has the opportunity to thrive.”

Business manager Gallagher, meanwhile, said in his remarks to apprentices at the event that a career as an Operating Engineer is a good one.

“You’ve invested in a career that’s going to enable you to support you and your families and your communities for many, many years to come.

“On behalf of Local 793 and our 15,000 members, we really want to encourage you to stick to it and make a career as an Operating Engineer.”

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Proposal Meetings for Mainline Pipeline Negotiations

Written by Local 793 Staff

Please be advised that proposals for upcoming Mainline Pipeline negotiations will be taken at all district monthly meetings in April. Following is the schedule of the meetings in various districts: TIMMINS  April 4 54 Waterloo Road Unit 2 Timmins 7:30 p.m.   OSHAWA  April 5 1255 Terwillegar Avenue Unit 7 Oshawa 7 p.m. THUNDER BAY April 5 979 Alloy Drive Suite 101 Thunder Bay 8 p.m. ST. CATHARINES*  April 10 188 Bunting Road Unit 5 St. Catharines 7:30 p.m. WINDSOR*  April 10 3383 Walker Road Windsor 7 p.m.  SAULT STE. […]

Please be advised that proposals for upcoming Mainline Pipeline negotiations will be taken at all district monthly meetings in April.

Following is the schedule of the meetings in various districts:

TIMMINS 
April 4
54 Waterloo Road
Unit 2
Timmins
7:30 p.m.  

OSHAWA 
April 5
1255 Terwillegar Avenue
Unit 7
Oshawa
7 p.m.

THUNDER BAY
April 5
979 Alloy Drive
Suite 101
Thunder Bay
8 p.m.

ST. CATHARINES* 
April 10
188 Bunting Road
Unit 5
St. Catharines
7:30 p.m.

WINDSOR* 
April 10
3383 Walker Road
Windsor
7 p.m. 

SAULT STE. MARIE* 
April 11
432 Great Northern Road
Suite 203
Sault Ste. Marie 
7:30 p.m.

CAMBRIDGE* 
April 11
100 Sheldon Drive
Unit 10 
Cambridge
7:30 p.m.

SUDBURY*  
April 17
430 Westmount Avenue
Unit H 
Sudbury
8 p.m.

TORONTO* 
April 18
2245 Speers Road
Oakville
7:30 p.m.

BELLEVILLE* 
April 24
1 Millennium Parkway
Suite 102 
Belleville
7 p.m.

LONDON* 
April 24 
523 First Street
London
7 p.m.

HAMILTON* 
April 25
35 Goderich Road
Unit 5
Hamilton
7:30 p.m.

OTTAWA* 
April 25
Best Western Plus 
1274 Carling Avenue
7 p.m.

NORTH BAY 
April 25
Voyager Inn, Greenery Room, 
123 Delaware Avenue
North Bay
7:30 p.m.

BARRIE* 
April 26
240 Bayview Drive
Unit 12
Barrie
7:30 p.m.

SARNIA* 
April 26
1390A Lougar Avenue
Sarnia
7 p.m.

* District Hiring Hall Present

Business Manager says Union is on Upward Tragectory

Written by Local 793 Staff

Local 793 is flourishing on a number of fronts, business manager Mike Gallagher said at a general membership meeting of the union at head office in Oakville on March 25. “We’re just going to continue on an upward trajectory,” he said in remarks to more than 150 members at the meeting. Gallagher said the union is on the right track, as membership numbers continue to rise. “There’s a lot of good news about the union,” he said, “and we’re now just shy of 15,000 members.” He noted that members’ equity […]

Local 793 is flourishing on a number of fronts, business manager Mike Gallagher said at a general membership meeting of the union at head office in Oakville on March 25.

“We’re just going to continue on an upward trajectory,” he said in remarks to more than 150 members at the meeting.

Gallagher said the union is on the right track, as membership numbers continue to rise.

“There’s a lot of good news about the union,” he said, “and we’re now just shy of 15,000 members.”

He noted that members’ equity is at $104 million – 10.7 per cent higher than the previous year – and union assets are $111 million – 10 per cent higher than the previous year.

The out-of-work list for Toronto area was at 569 members at March 14, down from more than 800 a year earlier, he said

Meanwhile, the pension plan is now at $2.7 billion – up $200 million from a year earlier, he said, and the plan earned eight per cent in 2017.

The plan was 99.9 per cent funded on a going-concern basis as of the end of 2017, he said.

On the organizing front, Gallagher said more companies are being unionized, with 117 voluntary recognition agreements being signed in 2017 and up to March 14, 2018. In the same time period, the union received 18 certificates from the Labour Board.

Gallagher said the union is growing at a much more rapid rate through organizing than any other construction union.

“The numbers are growing at a faster rate than all our competitors,” he said. “I feel that we’re doing good.”

Gallagher noted the local is preparing to file a certification at the Labour Relations Board on Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. at the Mary River site on Baffin Island in Nunavut.

Organizers have spent more than a year organizing Baffinland and the company has more than 800 workers.

Gallagher said he met earlier with Baffinland’s vice president of human resources and presented the concept of voluntary recognition, but the union will be making an application.

He said workers at the company seem to support the union and feel it can help them improve camp conditions.

“Lets just keep our fingers crossed and hope it turns out,” Gallagher said.

While trying to organize the company, he noted that Inuit workers from Baffinland have been training at the OETIO in Morrisburg, which has brought revenue into the union.

He said the OETIO has already received $416,000 in tuition plus $146,348 in room and board and ancillary expenses as a result of the workers being trained at the OETIO.

Another 12 operators from the company are scheduled to be trained at the OETIO in June, so the total tuition as a result of training employees from Baffinland is expected to be $596,000 plus $210,078 in room and board and ancillary expenses, he said.

Gallagher noted he recently hired four new organizers, bringing the number to 11, and he encouraged members to work with the union’s organizers, as it’s not an easy job.

Gallagher told the meeting that Local 793 will soon be embarking on an expansion of the banquet hall at head office.

The union is working with Michael Spaziani Architect.

Gallagher said the present building will be doubled in size and is being expanded to the east, a hallway is being added to the north, and more office space will also be added.

“We will likely be finished by August of next year in time to do our dinner dance,” he said.

Gallagher said the union also plans to build a 40-to-60-room student residence on 6.25 acres of property at 2201 Speers Rd., adjacent to head office, that it bought in summer 2017.

The building, he said, will enable apprentices to be able to stay in a safe place while training at the OETIO.

Gallagher said the union is also moving to self-administer its pension and life and health benefits plans and staff will be housed in a building on the newly-purchased property.

Eventually, he said, a new building will be built on the property for staff and some of the space will be rented out, bringing revenue into the local.

Gallagher said when members come to the main hall to take care of union business they’ll be able to do everything in one location.

Meanwhile, he noted, the union is planning for the future.

A committee has been meeting for the past year, planning activities for the 100th anniversary of the local in 2019, he said, and picnics and events are planned for many districts.

The union will also be selling commemorative items on its website and plans to get permission to fly flags on tower cranes at worksites.

“It’s a privilege for us to be alive when this great local reaches 100 years,” he said.

Gallagher spoke on a number of other subjects.

He said it was brought to his attention that companies were bringing in cranes that had been de-rated to avoid hiring apprentices and grievances have been filed with contractors.

He said companies were bringing in 110-ton cranes as 90-ton cranes.

“We filed 14 grievances against all of the heavy hitters in the crane rental sectors and I feel very confident that we’re going to win them,” he said.

Since filing the grievances, Gallagher said a couple of contractors have reached out to Local 793 to settle the issue.

Gallagher also congratulated the 21 delegates who were elected to attend the IUOE general convention in Hollywood, Florida in May.

He said it is the largest number of delegates ever being sent to the convention by Local 793.

He thanked the election committee for running a successful election for the IUOE general convention. The members were Mike Chenier, Vince Prout and Dan Davey.

At the meeting, OETIO executive director Harold McBride provided a report on apprenticeship training, new training initiatives, short-course and e-learning training, simulation and the union’s Aboriginal engagement plan.

He noted the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) is providing the OETIO with $2.3 million for training of mobile and tower crane, concrete pump and heavy equipment operators in 2018.

This will enable the OETIO to train 104 mobile and tower crane and concrete pump apprentices and 126 heavy equipment apprentices in 2018, he said.

The MAESD also awarded the OETIO $457,336 in 2018 to train 36 pre-apprentices.

As part of its Aboriginal engagement plan, the OETIO plans to recruit 50 new Aboriginal apprentices in 2018.

McBride said an RFP is going out to purchase a 40-to-60-ton all-terrain crane for the Oakville campus and a second RFP is going out to purchase a 0-8-ton carry-deck crane for Morrisburg. A new 15-ton Elliott boom truck recently arrived at the Oakville campus.

McBride noted that an AZ/DZ driver-training program has been added at the OETIO. Trainees in the course take four weeks of training. So far, six courses have been completed.

A report presented by McBride showed that from the beginning of the year to March 25 1,387 short-courses have been completed by members at the OETIO.

Meanwhile, he noted, six new VxAdvantage simulators and two Vxtraining simulators are up and running at the OETIO and two existing VxMaster simulators have been retrofitted.

General Membership Meeting on March 25

Written by Local 793 Staff

A general membership meeting of the union is scheduled for Sunday, March 25, 2018 in Local 793’s banquet hall at head office in Oakville, 2245 Speers Rd. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. Click here for location.

A general membership meeting of the union is scheduled for Sunday, March 25, 2018 in Local 793’s banquet hall at head office in Oakville, 2245 Speers Rd. The meeting begins at 10 a.m.

Click here for location.

Local 793 Objects to Canada Signing TPP

Written by Local 793 Staff

The following press release was issued by Local 793 regarding the Trans Pacific Partnership OAKVILLE — Mike Gallagher, business manager of Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, says the federal Liberals have made a mistake by signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). “By signing this deal, the Liberals are failing to protect construction workers in this country. There are provisions in this trade pact that can be exploited by foreign construction companies at the expense of Canadian workers and our economy.” “This deal, in […]

The following press release was issued by Local 793 regarding the Trans Pacific Partnership

OAKVILLE — Mike Gallagher, business manager of Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, says the federal Liberals have made a mistake by signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

“By signing this deal, the Liberals are failing to protect construction workers in this country. There are provisions in this trade pact that can be exploited by foreign construction companies at the expense of Canadian workers and our economy.”

“This deal, in our opinion, could open the door to under-skilled and under-paid temporary foreign workers being allowed to enter Canada to work – something that is unacceptable to our union.”

Gallagher said the CPTPP does not have a Canada-first provision and there is nothing in the deal to prevent a construction project being built in Canada by a foreign company with foreign workers.

A side-letter to Article 12.4 of the CPTPP states that Canada shall grant temporary entry and a work permit of up to three years to intra-corporate transfers of executives or managers, management trainees on professional development, or specialists. Specialists are defined as a worker possessing specialized knowledge of a company’s products or services and their application in international markets, or an advanced level of expertise or knowledge of the company’s processes and procedures. There is no mention of hiring Canadians first, opening the door to foreign companies being allowed to bring in foreign “specialists” to work on a project. Worse, there would also be no restriction on how many specialists a foreign company could bring in.

The deal, signed March 8 by International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne and representatives of 10 other nations in Santiago, Chile, could also affect Canadian contractors because they might end up competing for projects against foreign companies that could bring in cheaper labour.

“We have plenty of skilled, trained workers here in Canada and are concerned that the government has gone ahead and signed this deal without closing those loopholes,” said Gallagher. “These issues have been raised but, unfortunately, they were not addressed in the deal.”

Gallagher noted that if large foreign construction firms come to Canada and take work from local contractors and workers it does nothing to benefit the Canadian economy or the pension, benefits and training programs of unions like Local 793, as the foreign firms and workers take the wages and profits back to their own country, something that is unacceptable to Canadian employers and workers – whether unionized or not.

Gallagher said the fact that the United States saw the light and exempted itself from the CPTPP should ring warning bells for the Canadian government. The U.S. officially withdrew from the pact on Jan. 23, 2017 because the administration was concerned it would be a job killer and undermine the U.S. economy.

Local 793 has always supported fair trade agreements that don’t undermine the Canadian workforce by bypassing labour, safety and training standards, and backs NAFTA because no unfair advantage accrues to U.S. contractors when it comes to licensing or substandard training, Gallagher said, but the CPTPP raises the prospect that Canadian workers will not fully benefit from the jobs that will be created by the $125 billion in infrastructure funding over 10 years that was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he paid a visit to the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario during a campaign stop in August 2015.

Gallagher noted that the Ontario government and a number of influential groups, including Canada’s dairy farmers, the country’s largest private-sector union, and key sectors of the Canadian auto industry are also critical of the trade pact, saying it will cost jobs in Canada.

Unifor, which has more than 315,000 members across the country, is warning that the deal is a regressive agreement that will start a race to the bottom and once again hurt Canadian workers because Article 19 on labour rights is essentially unchanged and fails to make any meaninful advancements to ensure compliance and enforceability when labour rights are violated under the deal.

The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, which represents companies that make most of the vehicles produced in this country, is also concerned that the deal fails to provide our large auto manufacturers with reciprocal access to markets of trading partners in the CPTPP.

The Dairy Farmers of Canada, which represents farmers on about 12,000 dairy farms, indicates the deal will give other countries in the CPTPP tariff-free access to Canada’s dairy market. The group estimates that the market access conceded in the deal will result in a 3.1-per-cent loss in milk production by Canada’s dairy farmers, or about $160 million per year.

The Council of Canadians, a social action organization, has called on government to scrap the deal because public objections to it were ignored and the pact will result in large job losses. A study called Trading Down, Unemployment, Inequity and Other Risks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement done in January 2016 by Tufts University in Massachusetts found such a deal could cost Canada 58,000 jobs over a 10-year period.

Meanwhile, according to the Ontario government, the province’s farm sector could lose $500 million in revenue over the first five years of the deal and a drop in investment in the auto sector would result in an economy-wide reduction of $80 million in the annual gross domestic product as well as potential job losses. In a speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade on Feb. 22, 2018, Premier Kathleen Wynne noted the province’s auto sector will need $1.26 billion in transitional assistance from the federal government over 10 years to adjust to the new realities created by the CPTPP and the agriculture and food sectors will need $1.4 billion over that period.

“Why did Premier Wynne not mention assistance for the construction industry, which employs more than 500,000 workers in Ontario?” asked Gallagher. “It would appear that both the federal and provincial governments are ignoring the impact that introduction of the CPTPP will have on construction workers. Why is that, when our industry is so important to the growth of the economy?”

Gallagher said the deal is out of step with the federal government’s budget objectives of advancing women and Indigenous peoples and addressing youth unemployment and underemployment because foreign workers will have a higher priority than the domestic workforce.

A report done in August 2016 for Canada’s Building Trades Unions noted that the deal makes it easier for temporary workers to enter Canada because employers will no longer need to prove that there is a shortage of domestic workers in a specified occupation in order to open the sector to foreign workers.

Gallagher noted that, in the past, there have been abuses of the system and the CPTPP will only make matters worse – not better.

On April 4, 2007, for example, two temporary foreign workers were killed when a storage tank roof collapsed on them at a Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) site near Fort McMurray, Alta. The workers were employed by the Canadian subsidiary of Chinese engineering firm Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Company (SSEC). CNRL was fined $10,000 and SSEC was ordered to pay $1.5 million in penalties.

In 2012, HD Mining International Ltd. was found to have brought in more than a dozen Chinese miners to develop a coal mine at the Murray River project near the town of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The company had been granted temporary permits to bring in more than 200 miners. The workers were sent back after Local 115 of the International Union of Operating Engineers and Local 1611 of the Construction and Specialized Workers Union challenged the company in court.

In April 2013, meanwhile, it was revealed that the Royal Bank of Canada was planning to shift information technology work done by 45 Canadian employees to foreigners contracted by iGate, an outsourcing firm from India. Because of public backlash, the bank released a new code of conduct stipulating that RBC and its suppliers must not hire foreign workers to perform services for the bank when someone eligible to work in Canada is available and able to perform the service.

Without protecting Canadian workers under the CPTPP, Gallagher said the huge potential to employ First Nations peoples and construction workers to build railways, roads and infrastructure in the Ring of Fire area in northern Ontario could be lost to foreign companies and workers.

“Can the Liberal government give us a guarantee that we won’t have Canadian jobs ripped off by offshore contractors and foreign workers?”

Gallagher said Local 793 takes health and safety very seriously and the CPTPP also needs to clarify that unlicensed crane operators and operators of heavy equipment from foreign countries would not be able to circumvent licensing requirements in Ontario.

“Construction equipment is large and dangerous and members of the public and other construction workers could be in danger if foreign workers were permitted to work in Canada without so much as a demonstration of skills test to prove their competency. This must be avoided at all cost.”

Gallagher noted that on March 12 in Quebec’s Saguenay region, during the first stop on a cross-country tour of aluminum and steel factories, Prime Minister Trudeau said he and his team have the backs of workers in those industries.

“But does he have the backs of construction workers in the CPTPP deal? I would like to think so, but the prime minister needs to make that point clear right now, as he did for the workers in Quebec.”

Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers represents nearly 15,000 highly-skilled crane and heavy equipment operators across Ontario. The union has a head office, banquet hall and training campus in Oakville, and another training campus in Morrisburg. Canadian locals of the International Union of Operating Engineers represent more than 50,000 operators and have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in equipment at training centres across the country.

For additional information contact:
Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher
905-469-9299, ext. 2202

Click here for text of the CPTPP

Local 793 Members Participate in St. Patrick’s Parade

Written by Local 793 Staff

Local 793 members and their families participated in the Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 11. Union members, proudly wearing bright green and white jackets, marched the 3.5-kilometre route from Bloor and St. George streets to the parade-reviewing stand at Nathan Phillips Square. The Local 793 entourage also featured a band on a float playing Irish music. About 50 Local 793 members and family members participated in the parade. Local 793 was one of the sponsors of the parade. The parade started at noon. Thousands of people lined […]

Local 793 members and their families participated in the Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 11.

Union members, proudly wearing bright green and white jackets, marched the 3.5-kilometre route from Bloor and St. George streets to the parade-reviewing stand at Nathan Phillips Square.

The Local 793 entourage also featured a band on a float playing Irish music.

About 50 Local 793 members and family members participated in the parade.

Local 793 was one of the sponsors of the parade.

The parade started at noon. Thousands of people lined the parade route.


 

 

Local 793 Participates in St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Written by Local 793 Staff

Local 793 members and their families are invited to break out a little green and march in the Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 11, 2018.   The union is once again one of the sponsors and participants in the parade and will have a float with a band playing Irish music.   This is a family-friendly event and all members and their families are invited to participate.   The parade starts at noon. Local 793 members and their families are asked to be there at 10:30 a.m. […]

Local 793 members and their families are invited to break out a little green and march in the Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
 
The union is once again one of the sponsors and participants in the parade and will have a float with a band playing Irish music.
 
This is a family-friendly event and all members and their families are invited to participate.
 
The parade starts at noon. Local 793 members and their families are asked to be there at 10:30 a.m.
 
The marshalling point for Local 793 members and their families is E15 at St. George Street and Hoskin Avenue. Please click here for the parade route.
 
Special jackets and hats will be given out to all participants while supplies last.
 
The parade begins on the corner of Bloor Street and St. George Street (near St. George subway station) and heads east on Bloor Street, turns south on Yonge Street and finally turns west on Queen Street, finishing at the parade reviewing stand at Nathan Phillips Square.
 
The parade route is about 3.5 kilometres in length and takes up to two and a half hours.
 
Access from the TTC subway can be made at the following stations: St. George, Bloor, Wellesley, College, Dundas and Queen.
 
So, if you’re Irish – or just want to be Irish for the day – come out to the parade and show support for your union at the same time.
 
Please don’t forget to dress appropriately for the weather.
 
And also please remember to set your clocks ahead the night before the parade.
 
For more information about the parade, click here.
 
If you have any questions regarding the parade, please contact Mike Scott at 647-632-2035 or send an email to mscott@iuoelocal793.org.

Offices Closed on Family Day

Written by Local 793 Staff

Please be advised that all Local 793 offices across the province will be closed on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018 for Family Day. Regular office hours will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. Please have a safe and enjoyable long weekend.

Please be advised that all Local 793 offices across the province will be closed on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018 for Family Day.

Regular office hours will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

Please have a safe and enjoyable long weekend.

Union Dues Tax Receipts Online as of Feb. 21, 2019

Written by Local 793 Staff

As of Thursday, February 21, 2019, Local 793 members will be able to go online to the union website and download their 2018 tax receipts for union dues and T4A’s issued by Global Benefits. Originals are automatically sent out to members’ home addresses, as per usual.  The online feature was established by Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher to allow members to download their receipts and file their tax returns early, if they choose to do so. Following are step-by-step instructions on how to go online and download the 2018 […]

As of Thursday, February 21, 2019, Local 793 members will be able to go online to the union website and download their 2018 tax receipts for union dues and T4A’s issued by Global Benefits.

Originals are automatically sent out to members’ home addresses, as per usual. 

The online feature was established by Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher to allow members to download their receipts and file their tax returns early, if they choose to do so.

Following are step-by-step instructions on how to go online and download the 2018 receipts online:

> Go to the union website at iuoelocal793.org.

Log in to the member section of the IUOE Local 793 website. If you do not currently have an account, you must create one first.

Log in with your credentials

Once logged in to your member account profile, scroll to the bottom of the page and select view documents beside the downloadable tax forms description.

> Click on the available forms Dues (Union Dues Receipt) and T4A Form.  This will download a printable PDF form.