Greater Toronto Sewer and Watermain Contractors Association

Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2022. Signed on Nov. 22, 2019.

Shift premium: $4 per hour more than highest rate paid to labourers in working foreman’s regular and permanent crew when working foreman is appointed by employer. $3.28 per hour for night shifts that begin, and have majority of hours between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. $1 above base labourers’ rate for box-sewer carpenter; $0.80 above base labourers’ rate for reinforcing-rod installer when working on contract titled box-culvert project. Compressed air: $16 for 1 to 14 psi; $19.50 for 15 to 20 psi; $23.50 for 21 psi (additional $2 per pound for each pound over 21, in addition to 21-psi rate). $3.28 per hour (previously $3.18 per hour) will be paid for work performed on second or third shift

Paid holidays: 10 days.

Vacations with pay: 10% of gross wages earned for vacation and statutory holiday pay credits.

Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 9 or 10 hours per day or 50 hours per week or on Saturdays; double time for all work on Sundays or holidays (except for watchmen). Time and one-half for all work on seventh consecutive shift (watchmen only).

Meal allowance: $16.39 per day for jobs that are at least 110 kilometres from employer’s premises, after 12 hours of time worked, excluding travel time.

Medical benefits: Employer will contribute to Teamsters Local, 230 welfare plan or LiUNA, Local 183 members’ benefit fund.

Pension: Central and Eastern Canada Labourers’ International Union Pension Fund.

Uniforms/clothing: Employer will supply safety helmets to employees at no cost to employee. When employees are required to perform duties in wet weather, employers will supply suitable protective clothing, including quality rubber boots, rain suits. On all tunnel projects, when employees perform duties in wet or abnormal conditions such as water, dust, noise, employer will provide suitable protective clothing, equipment including quality rubber boots, rain suits, gloves.

Tool allowance: On projects where employer provides locked-up facilities for employees to store tools and clothing, employer will reimburse employee, maximum $300 for loss due to fire or theft resulting from break-in to locked-up facilities.

Mileage: $0.60 per road kilometre, 1 way from boundary of beyond Greater Toronto free zone, for travel driving (payment is not made when: company transportation to job is supplied; straight-time pay, maximum 1.5 hours of pay per day 1 way from boundary of the free zone is paid to employee).

Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 3.5% increase):

Local 183 wages

Labourers/pump man (3” discharge and less)/heater man (up to 5 heaters): $37.64 rising 2 steps to $39

Small-mixer driver (less than 1 yard)/dinky motorman/sheeting and shoring man/miner’s and driller’s helper/powderman ‘s helper/mortarman/Scoot-Crete driver/screed man/puddlers/float man on concrete/jackhammer man/well-point installer/encasement form setters/signalman/Rammax tamper: $38.24 rising 2 steps to $39.60

Pipelayers helper/concrete finisher/bench person/concrete patcher inside pipe/catch-basin installer/diamond saw cutter/watermain tapper/precast manhole installer: $38.39 rising 2 steps to $39.75

Caulker (cast-iron, tile, concrete, asbestos, cement, plastic)/wagon driller and box sewer constructor/carpenter and reinforcing man and fusion welder: $38.64 rising 2 steps to $40

Pipelayers (including use of laser for pipelaying)/manhole and valve chamber carpenter constructor/topman/miners/drillers/shaft-sinker timberman/grout-machine man/powerman-blaster/welder: $39.64 rising 2 steps to $41

Flag person/casual watchperson: $32.24 rising 2 steps to $33.60

Labourers (surface)/signalman/deckman/pump man (3”)/hopper man/heater man (up to 5 heaters)/yard and material men/gauge tender: $39.39 rising 2 steps to $40.75

Labourers (underground)/mucker/loco driver/trackman/caulker/shaft sinker helper/concrete finisher/concrete worker/carpenter/pit-bottom man/Scoot-Crete driver/driller helper/mixer man (under 1 yard): $40.35 rising 2 steps to $41.71

Lock tender: $40.69 rising 2 steps to $42.05

Miner/driller/diamond driller/timberman/jackleg man/mucking-machine driver/jumbo operator/robotic sprayer/shaft sinker/pipe jacker/slush driver/wagon driller (underground)/cole-cutter driver/powderman-blaster/lead

concrete man/all labourers on pile-driver operations/miner for caisson and underpinning/manhole carpenter/operators of air spades and jackhammer at face/shotcrete/nozzle man and concrete pump/reinforcing rod placer/cement mason/welder/shotcrete man/stopper man/auger man/carpenter: $41.35

Lead miner/tunnel shield, mole and similar equipment drivers/working foreman: $42.35

Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 2.4% increase):

Teamsters’, Local 230 wages

Wage schedule 1

Drivers of dump trucks/pick-up service/bulk lift-trucks and farm tractors without attachments/off-highway trucks: $38.72 rising 2 steps to $39.64

Fuel-truck drivers/load-bearing boom truck drivers and drivers of dump trucks with tag along attachments over 15 tonnes: $38.82 rising 2 steps to $39.74

Float drivers/custom mobile mixer units/truck- or trailer-mounted: $39.08 rising 2 steps to $40.01

Wage schedule 1

Drivers of dump trucks/pick-up service/bulk-lift trucks and farm tractors without attachments/off-highway trucks: $30.22 rising 2 steps to $30.89

Fuel-truck drivers/load-bearing boom truck drivers and drivers of dump trucks with tag along attachments over 15 tonnes: $32.30 rising 2 steps to $33.02

Float drivers/custom mobile mixer units/truck- or trailer-mounted: $32.90 rising 2 steps to $33.63

Sample rates of weekly pay (current):

Watchperson (for 6 nights’ duty, 50 hours per week): $1,244

Trainee

Phase 1 (0 to 600 hours): 60% of full rate

Phase 2 (601 to 1,200 hours): 75% of full rate

Phase 3 (1,201 to 1,800 hours): 85% of full rate

Editor’s notes: Sanitation, shelters: On all jobs where more than 5 employees are continuously employed, shelter (heated when necessary) will be provided for employees to eat lunch and store clothing. Sanitary toilets will also be provided. Ergonomics training: As condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to attend and complete ergonomics training course offered by Labourers’, Local 183 members training fund within 30 days of hiring. Prepaid legal: Employer will pay $0.10 for each hour worked by each employee to Labourers’, Local 183 prepaid legal benefits fund. Out-of-town allowance: Employer will provide suitable room and board for employee, maximum $125 per overnight stay (previously $100 per day). Effective May 1, 2020: $135 per overnight stay. Effective May 1, 2021: $140 per overnight stay. Parking: For City of Toronto south of Bloor Street, west of Don Valley Parkway, east of Dufferin Street, if employer has not provided designated parking area and employee has to pay for public parking, employer will reimburse employee, maximum $17.50 per day. Effective May 1, 2020: Maximum $20 per day.