Improved overtime rates, minimum rate for students part of agreement
Members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 692 in Langley, B.C., ratified a new collective agreement with WestCan Industries on Jan. 31.
“We have always had overtime paid at one and a half times the standard rate but we have just negotiated two times the standard rate for overtime and the minimum wage rate for students is now $15 per hour which supports our campaign for a minimum wage of $15 per hour,” said Dale Gentile, IAM district lodge 250 business representative.
The three-year agreement provides wage increases of three per cent in each year, said the union.
Other agreement highlights include:
- removal of the two-tier wage scale system from the collective agreement
- improved dental coverage
- long-term disability coverage improvements
- apprenticeship rates improved
- shipper classification wage scale improved
- improved pension plan contributions
The 30 members manufacture, repair, rebuild and overhaul industrial pumps for industrial uses.
