ADL Distillers: Voting on an Offer of Settlement
To our ADL members: throughout the bargaining process, your union bargaining committee has striven to advance your issues, concerns and demands to the company.
Since negotiations began earlier this year, your bargaining committee has met with the company for a total of 18 days, including 2 days this week on February 3 and 4, 2025.
It has always been the goal of your bargaining committee to push your employer to put their best possible offer on the table so that members could have their say. While we reached agreements on several issues, we were unable to agree on an overall package. We felt the company still did not adequately address a number of your concerns.
That’s why your bargaining Committee applied to the Department of Mediation Services to request the assistance of a government appointed Mediator in late 2025. Your bargaining committee continued to pressure the company to improve their offer, and on February 4, 2026, they tabled what they described as their Final Offer.
While this offer does not address every issue that the membership brought forward, this offer does contain some significant improvements, which include:
- 3.5-year term. Re-aligning the contract to a calendar year instead of July to June
- 9% wage increase (3.5%, 2.5%, 3%) which equates to increases of $3.35 to $4.35 over the term of the agreement. 3.5% is retroactive back to July 1, 2025.
- Maintenance wage adjustment of 2% as of January 5, 2026, in addition to increases listed above
- Improved life insurance
- Improved dental and orthodontics coverage
- Increased Health Care Spending Account to $500
- Increased boot allowance
- Increased shift premiums
- Increased meal allowance
- 1 additional paid day for Personal and Family Responsibility Leave
Unfortunately, the “final” offer from the company also includes a couple of items that your committee felt could negatively affect members.
This included a clause that would change how statutory holidays are paid. If ratified, this change would mirror employment standards, and members would “not be entitled to general holiday pay if they are absent from work the last scheduled day before the holiday or the first scheduled day after the holiday and they do not have their employer’s consent for the absence.”
You can download a copy of the company’s offer of settlement here.
Please review the document thoroughly and direct any questions toward the members of your bargaining committee.
INFORMATION MEETINGS & VOTE
We will hold information meetings so that you can get all the information you need from your union officials before you vote. The meeting and vote details are as follows:
Information (Q&A) Meeting
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
13:00, 15:30, 17:00, and 19:00
Glenmore Inn
In-person Voting
Thursday, February 26, 2026
13:00 to 19:30
ADL plant site – TRACC trailer
Online Voting
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:00 to 14:30
Please note that in order to vote online, you must have a valid email address registered with the Union. Please contact the Union office at 403-291-1047 to ensure that we have your updated contact information.
Stay tuned for further updates.
In solidarity,
Your UFCW Local 401 Negotiations Committee
Devin Yeager (Union Spokesperson), Kyle Sandau (Union Representative), Ryan St. Jacques, Jody McGuey, Enrique Soriano, Tyler Gillis
Posted on: February 12,2026