A&B Rail Services and Allied Rail Services

Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Nunavut (470 construction workers) and the Construction and General Workers’ Union (LiUNA), Local 92 and the Construction and General Workers’ Union (LiUNA), Local 180

Renewal agreement: Effective June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2021. Ratified on Aug. 27, 2018. Signed on Oct. 1, 2018.
Shift premium: $1 per hour for shift beginning after 6 p.m. or before 4 a.m.
Paid holidays: 11 days. 
Vacations with pay: When vacations are taken (such vacations will be mutually agreed upon between employer and employee and will not be unreasonably withheld), it will be unpaid time off. 10% vacation and holiday pay on each cheque. 
Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 hours per day or 44 hours per week. Time and one-half for all work after 4 hours of work on sixth consecutive day of work and all work on seventh consecutive day of work. 
Meal allowance: Meal (hot when possible) or $20 when employee works more than 11 unscheduled daily hours.
Medical benefits: Laborers’ Health and Welfare Trust Fund of Western Canada.
Pension: Laborers’ Pension Fund of Western Canada.
Bereavement leave: 3 days of leave with a pay at $100 per day for death in immediate family (mother, father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, husband, wife, children, grandchildren, grandparents).
Seniority – recall rights: 12 months.
Safety shoes: After 600 hours of work, employees will receive $200 in first and second year, $250 in third year of agreement, once per year.
Mileage: $0.55 per kilometre (when project located beyond free zone).
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase):
Labourer: $28.28 rising 3 steps to $29.84
Track and class C operator: $30.76 rising 3 steps to $32.32
Senior trackman/senior class C operator: $31.86 rising 3 steps to $33.42
Lead-hand/assistant foreman: $33.23 rising 3 steps to $34.79
Class B operator: $33.78 rising 3 steps to $35.34
Senior class B operator: $36.53 rising 3 steps to $38.09
Class A operator: $38.18 rising 3 steps to $39.74
Senior class A operator: $40.93 rising 3 steps to $42.49
Labour foreman: $38.18 rising 3 steps to $39.74
Senior labour foreman: $40.93 rising 3 steps to $42.49
Editor’s notes: Daily board allowance: $56 per day on jobs where hotel accommodation is provided by employer room and board will be supplied at no cost to employee and no more than 2 employees per room. Effective June 1, 2019: $57 per day. Effective June 1, 2020: $58 per day.
 

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