City Culture
What do a Senior Accountant, a Lifeguard, a Traffic Engineer and a Firefighter all have in common? They all work to achieve one mission, providing a wide range of quality programs and services to the citizens of Edmonton and visitors, every day!
What’s it Like to Work at the City?
At the City of Edmonton, we strive to ensure a culture of:
- Teamwork - Working closely with a diverse group of individuals
- Innovation - You’ll be working with cutting edge technology each day to support new ideas and projects for a growing community
- Work/Life Balance - We are committed to balancing your time at work with time at home
- Recognition - We reward your hard work
- Fun - Imagine enjoying coming to work every day
- Sense of Family - Close-knit working relationships
- Opportunity - To advance in your career
- Commitment to Citizens - We work hard to serve our community
Working Relationship Agreement
The Working Relationship Agreement (WRA) is an agreed upon set of principles to guide the behaviours of management and union representatives throughout the organization. It was designed to enhance workplace relationships by building trust. This “guide for behaviour” should be demonstrated in the way problems are resolved in the workplace, the way union-management committees address issues, the way grievances are handled, and the way collective bargaining is conducted.
The Agreement encourages a collaborative, interest-based approach for dealing with problems in the workplace, an approach that:
- Identifies the root problem
- Finds solutions faster and at less cost; and
- Produces lasting results
A commitment to the WRA in no way diminishes the right and responsibility of managers to manage in the best interests of the corporation, or the right and responsibility of unions and associations to represent the best interests of their members.
Union and Management leaders at the City of Edmonton put their signatures on the WRA because they believe it is the best way to conduct union-management business. They agreed that neither party would use the WRA as a “sword or a shield” to hold the other party ransom.
Simply put - the WRA is the way union-management business is conducted at the City of Edmonton!
