Provincewide, Alberta | (150 construction, maintenance employees) and the Construction Workers Union (CLAC), Local 63
Renewal agreement: Effective Feb. 1, 2023 to Jan. 31, 2024. Signed on Feb. 1, 2023.
Shift premium: $2.50 per hour for employees working between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Paid holidays: 11 days.
Vacations with pay: 3 weeks to start, 4 weeks after 5 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half for all hours worked in excess of 8 regular straight-time hours per day and 40 regular straight-time hours per week. Time and one-half for all hours worked on Saturday and Sunday.
Medical benefits: Employer will contribute $1.47 per hour (previously $1.40 per hour) to OpenCircle benefit plan.
Sick leave: 2% of base rate for all hours worked, paid to employees on each pay including final pay at termination of employment.
Pension: CLAC pension plan.
Bereavement leave: 3 days to make arrangements for or to attend funeral, memorial service or celebration of life event of spouse, common-law spouse, child, legal dependant, parents, parents-in-law, legal guardian, brother (in-law), sister (in-law), grandparents, grandchildren.
Call-in pay: Paid from time employee leaves home until return home at time and one-half, minimum 2 hours per call-in, unless call-in is due to negligence of employee.
Probationary period: 6 calendar months.
Safety shoes: Employer will reimburse 50% of cost, maximum $200 for CSA-approved safety boots (minimum 6-inch uppers).
Uniforms/clothing: Employer will supply employees with gloves, hearing protection, non-prescription safety glasses, shields, goggles, fire-retardant coveralls, raingear, particulate masks, breathing apparatus, fall-arrest equipment when required.
Mileage: $0.55 per kilometre if employee uses own vehicle for transportation between more than 1 different job per day during working hours.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current):
General foreman 4 (152%): $59.50
General foreman 3 (140%): $55
General foreman 2 (129%): $50.50
General foreman 1 (119%): $46.50
Foreman (114%): $44.75
Sub-forgeman (106%): $41.61
Electrician (100%): $39.25
Apprentice electrician
Fourth-year (90%): $35.33
Third-year (80%): $31.40
Second-year (70%): $27.48
First-year (60%): $23.55
Steward premium (based upon journeyman wage rate)
Toolbox 3: $40.25
Toolbox 2: $40
Toolbox 1: $39.75
Editor’s notes: On call: 4 hours pay per week for being on call based on 7-day rotation and 1 employee. Union/management meetings: $20 to committee member for each meeting attended when meetings are held outside of regular working hours. Prescription safety eyewear: Employer will reimburse employee for t prescription safety eyewear, maximum $150.
