Whitehorse/Dawson/Watson Lake, Yukon Territory | (43 office, highway-shop, gas station employees, drivers) and Teamsters, Local 31
Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2023 to Dec. 31, 2025. Signed on Jan. 1, 2023.
Wage adjustments:
Office employees
Effective Jan. 1, 2023: 6%
Effective Jan. 1, 2024: 3%
Effective Jan. 1, 2025: 3%
Highway-shop employees
Effective Jan. 1, 2023: 4%
Effective Jan. 1, 2024: 3%
Effective Jan. 1, 2025: 3%
Paid holidays: 13 days, including Rendezvous Friday, Indigenous Day, National Truth and Reconciliation Day
Vacations with pay: 3 weeks or 6% after 1 year, 4 weeks or 8% after 5 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 10 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half for first 4 hours worked after 8 hours per day; double time thereafter. Time and one-half for work on employee’s designated day of rest; double time after 8 hours of work. Employees may bank maximum 40 hours of overtime (maximum 50 hours for linehaul employees) each year.
Vision: $500 once every 2 years for each employee and dependant.
Paramedical: $500 by any 1 type of practitioner (chiropractor, osteopath, podiatrist or naturopath) per year.
AD&D: Coverage of $45,000.
Life insurance: Coverage of $45,000.
Bereavement leave: 5 days — 7 days when memorial is held outside Yukon Territory — for death in immediate family (spouse, common-law spouse, mother, father, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mother-in-law, father-in-law, employee’s grandparents, legal guardian).
Seniority – recall rights: 3 months to start; 6 months after 12 months’ of seniority; 12 months after 24 months’ seniority for layoffs. 120 calendar days when employee accepts position with employer that is excluded from bargaining unit.
Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours of pay at double time but after completion of duty called in for, employee may elect to book off with minimum 2 hours of pay.
Probationary period: First 90 days.
Severance: 1 week of pay per year of service.
Safety shoes: $300 per year for employees who are required by workers’ compensation to wear steel-toed work boots.
Uniforms/clothing: In wet weather or mud conditions, employer will supply proper wet-weather apparel as required. Any employee, physically handling substantial quantities of bulk-petroleum products will be provided with coveralls, rubber or leather aprons, smocks, gloves, rubber boots, hard hats, safety glasses, breathing respirators, ear protectors where needed. Employer will provide 1 summer jacket, 1 winter jacket to employees who distribute and handle petroleum products. Maintenance shop employees, petroleum plant operators, local delivery drivers will be provided with 2 pairs of regular coveralls and 1 pair of winter coveralls.
Tool allowance: $0.65 per hour for journey transport technicians, mechanical foremen, mechanics.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase):
Office
Accounting clerk 1: $27.15 rising 2 steps to $28.80
Accounting clerk 2: $29.92 rising 2 steps to $31.75
Accounting clerk 3: $35.21 rising 2 steps to $37.36
Highway shop
Local delivery driver: $35.52 rising 2 steps to $37.68
Agency driver: $35.78 rising 2 steps to $37.95
Mechanic foreman: $50.50 rising 2 steps to $53.58
Journeyman transport technician: $48.48 rising 2 steps to $51.43
Journeyman welder: $40.77 rising 2 steps to $43.25
Mechanic: $44.44 rising 2 steps to $47.15
Labourer 1: $28.26 rising 2 steps to $29.98
Labourer 2: $35.21 rising 2 steps to $37.36
Company-owned gas stations
Station-attendant supervisor: $22 rising 2 steps to $23.34
Station attendant: $18 rising 2 steps to $19.10
Editor’s notes: Union-industry advancement fund: Employer will contribute $0.05 per hour to Teamsters, Local 31 union-industry advancement fund. Personal time off: 1 half-day (4 hours) per qualifying month. Travel allowance: $2,100 after each year of continuous employment. $150 per year for employees residing in Watson Lake or Dawson City in recognition of extra travel to Whitehorse for flights.
