We ask you to stand with 30 of our Boilermaker brothers and sisters who have been locked out of their jobs at CESSCO in Edmonton, Alberta, since June.

The rebuild on a 1929 Baldwin 2-8-2T steam locomotive, better known as Number 7 in the City of Port Alberni continues after the Boilermakers who have been volunteering their time took the summer off to enjoy a Vancouver Island summer.

Several weeks ago, Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party held their annual general meeting and passed two resolutions that would be very damaging to working people’s livelihoods and health care if they were to be made into law.

Thirty Edmonton families have been going without paychecks and benefits since June 28. That’s when CESSCO Fabrication & Engineering Ltd. locked workers out of their jobs. To learn more visit www.endourlockout.org.

Also see the following local news broadcast in Edmonton on the CESSCO lockout:
Unionized CESSCO employees locked out for months over wage and pension disagreement (Global News)

International Vice-President Arnie Stadnick published a op-ed in the Edmonton and Calgary Sun on October 30, 2020. Click the link below to read.

Premier Kenney: Now more than ever, Alberta’s economy needs us. Why pick a fight with us now? (PDF)