Ottawa (1,266 road construction workers) and Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), Local 527, International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), Local 793, and Teamsters, Local 91
Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2022. Ratified in June 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective May 5, 2019: 2.5%
Effective May 3, 2020: 2.4%
Effective May 2, 2021: 2.4%
Shift premium: $3.50 per hour for work performed between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Paid holidays: 10 days. Time off without pay on Remembrance Day will be granted on request to any employee who is war veteran.
Vacations with pay: 4% on each paycheque.
Overtime: Double time for all work performed on Sunday and statutory holidays, except for snow removal, for all employees except watchmen. Double time for all authorized work performed on statutory holiday.
Meal allowance: $55 per day along with reasonable hotel accommodation for employees required to stay away from home overnight (previously $50).
Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums.
Pension: Employer pays 100% of premiums.
Bereavement leave: 2 working days at $250 per day for death of parent, stepparent, parent-in-law, spouse, child, sibling, grandparent.
Call-in pay: Minimum of 4 hours’ work or pay when called back to work after completing normal shift with no prior notice.
Uniforms/clothing: When employee is required to work under abnormally wet conditions, employer will provide protective clothing as deemed reasonably necessary. Coveralls supplied to mechanics, welders, colas spray persons and hoe ram persons. Gloves supplied to fuel truck drivers, float drivers, welders, mechanics, operators and hoe ram operators.
Tool allowance: $60 per month to all mechanics. Employers will provide all tools utilized by labourers.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 4.2% increase):
Operating engineers
Operators of all cranes/clams: $42.86 rising 1 step to $43.91
Operators of all floating equipment: $36.18 rising 1 step to $37.14
Sewer and watermain operators of excavators/milling machine operators: $35.18 rising 1 step to $36.14
Operators of Gradalls/grader A (asphalt and concrete): $34.68 rising 1 step to $35.64
Road construction operators of excavators/Gradalls: $33.65 rising 1 step to $34.61
Grader B (other grading including gravel): $32.02 rising 1 step to $32.97
Mechanic A (heavy duty): $33.22 rising 1 step to $34.17
Mechanic B: $32.65 rising 1 step to $33.61
Welder A: $32.05 rising 1 step to $33.01
Welder B: $31.82 rising 1 step to $32.77
Operators A (bulldozer/rubber-tired scrapers/loaders/temporary steam heating plant/sheep’s foot with blade attachment/rubber tired hoe/roller A asphalt): $32.58 rising 1 step to $33.54
Shuttle buggy: $33.08 rising 1 step to $34.04
Bulldozer under D6 and loader less than 1.5 c.y. capacity: $32.58 rising 1 step to $33.54
Operators B (pumps/skid-steer loaders/industrial tractors with attachments/well points/dinky locomotive-type engines and Kubota-type backhoe): $32.28 rising 1 step to $33.24
Roller B (grade self-propelled ride on packers/electronic or radio controlled compaction unit/power sweepers): $31.65 rising 1 step to $32.61
Field service man: $31.88 rising 1 step to $32.84
Oilers/apprentices/front end drivers and oilers on 100-tonne cranes: $30.89 rising 1 step to $31.85
Tunnel operators of cranes: $42.86 rising 1 step to $43.91
Tunnel operators of shaft hoists/tuggers/and derricks with lifting capacity over 2,000 lbs: $36.18 rising 1 step to $37.14
Teamsters (no increases during collective agreement term)
Ready mix truck/floats (low bed): $27.74
Semi-trailer truck/tri-axle/tri-axle dump and pup trailer/tri-axle with tag along float/tandem-axle with pup/tandem-axle with tag along float/boom truck/water truck/fuel and grease truck/tandem dump/service truck/single-axle truck/farm tractor/off-highway truck: $26.58
Labourers
Powderman/tail ender/curb machine operator/pipe layer: $33.12 rising 1 step to $33.80
Labourers (skilled)/form setter/form-builder carpenters/concrete worker (cement finisher)/raker/air-truck driller/welders on pile driving (except for maintenance of equipment)/line setter/grade man: $32.37 rising 1 step to $33.05
Labourers (semi-skilled) including sheeting and shoring/concrete and asphalt saw operator/jackhammer breaker operator/reinforcing steel setter/deckman/topman: $31.68 rising 1 step to $32.36
Labourers including asphalt shovel man/concrete shovel man/float men/scoot-crete/caulker/farm tractor operator/pump operator (less than 6 inches)/asphalt tamper man/grouter/interlock-paver layers/walk-behind compactor operators and electronically controlled compactor operators: $31.34 rising 1 step to $32.02
Labourers who have not been actively engaged in construction work for more than 12 months in past 3 years: $30.70 rising 1 step to $31.38
Labourers who have not been actively engaged in construction work for more than 6 months in past 3 years: $27.94 rising 1 step to $28.62
Watch persons/flag persons/labourers engaged as landscapers: $24.20 rising 1 step to $24.88
Students hired between May and Sept. 15: $24.09 rising 1 step to $24.77
Tunnel labourer: $33.61 rising 1 step to $34.34
Tunnel underground labourer/loco driver/lock tender: $33.93 rising 1 step to $34.65
Mucker concrete worker (cement finisher)/scoop tram/mucker/mixer operator/rigger/skid steer operator/telescopic forklift/shotcrete/gunite: $34.09 rising 1 step to $34.82
Miner/tunnel-mole driver/tunnel-shield driver/mucking machine operator/powderman/grout man/carpenter/form builder/road header/mechanic excavator operator/certified welder/erector: $34.26 rising 1 step to $34.99
Lead miner: $37.28 rising 1 step to $38.01
Tunnel boring machine operator: $40.48 rising 1 step to $41.21
Labourers (bridge construction): $31.43 rising 1 step to $32.15
Concrete finisher (bridge construction): $32.46 rising 1 step to $33.19
Reinforcing steel setter/form setter/form builder carpenters (bridge construction): $35.31 rising 1 step to $36.04
Editor’s notes: Reporting pay: Minimum 4 hours’ pay or work if not notified to not come into work, or work stoppage is beyond control of employer. Minimum 2 hours’ pay if no work available due to inclement weather. Transportation costs: Employees requested to work beyond 48 kilometres from Peace Tower and are provided daily transportation to place of work receive $35 to $71 per day (previously $31.50 to $65.31/depending on distance); those who aren’t provided daily transportation receive $59 to $139 (previously $54.60 to $126).
