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LETHBRIDGE COMET RED DEER

To register or for further details on an upcoming COMET course contact your Local 8 office
 (click link to e-mail)
Edmonton
(780) 426-3375
Calgary
(403) 250-1060

 

SMWIA LOCAL 8

PROVINCE OF ALBERTA & NWT, CANADA

The Executive and Members of Sheet Metal Workers' Local # 8
 welcome you to their web site and invite you to browse
 our pages to learn more about the role of the
Union in the Sheet Metal trade.

Due to the slow-down of the work picture in Alberta, Local # 8 is not currently accepting travelers

Basic Rigging Course:

On Saturday February 20 a Basic Rigging course will be held at NAIT in Edmonton. Any interested members must pay a deposit to register for the course. If we do not receive enough deposits one week prior to the course it will be cancelled and deposits returned. Contact the Edmonton office to register for the course and make arrangements to pay the deposit. Any new members with less than three months of employer contributions must pay two hundred dollars for the course. The two hundred dollars will be reimbursed upon three months of employer contributions and a request for refund from the member. Deposits will be returned after completion of the course. Any registered member who does not attend will forfeit the deposit.

What's new? ... January 5, 2010

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Photos of the Calgary Childrens' Christmas Party are posted

Previous Updates:

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The December newsletter is online

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Service Award photos have been added

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We've added new job site/ shop photos

 

Tired of Site Access Testing? 

The Rapid Site Access Program is a voluntary alternative to site access testing whereby workers agree to be subject to random alcohol and drug testing while on site.  (Random drug tests are performed via oral fluid - sometimes referred to as “oral swab tests”) 

In return, workers are dispatched directly to participating sites without having to submit to a site access test.   

The program is available to travel cards and registration/enrollment is processed
regardless of whether or not you are currently employed.   

To register online for the Rapid Site Access Program please proceed to http://www.rsap.ca
and click on the self registration menu item. 

Upon receipt of your registration, a representative of Organizational Health Incorporated will contact you to enroll you in the system.

See here, for more information on the RSAP (Rapid Site Access Program)

 

PENSION PLAN
Alberta Sheet Metal Retirement  Trust Fund
Plan booklets are available online		 HEALTH & WELFARE
Coughlin & Associates
(claim forms)
Follow this link for a PDF format of the
Canadian Model for Providing a Safe Workplace
ALCOHOL & DRUG GUIDELINES AND WORK RULE		 APPRENTICES:
Check out Alberta Apprenticeship & Industry Training
for scholarship info and other funding
Do you have past service with Local # 8? You may have pension moneys in the Alberta Sheet Metal Retirement Trust Fund. You can browse through the list to see if you may have benefits coming to you; or know of anyone who does.