Provincewide, Manitoba (2,875 workers, service and maintenance employees) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL-CIO/CLC)
Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2018. Ratified on Jan. 13, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 2.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2%
Shift premium: 6.7% per shift addition premium for employees regularly working a 2 or 3-shift schedule operating on a continuous basis, 24 hours per day. $1.31 per hour for shift schedule between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. $3.73 per hour for shifts on Saturdays or Sundays and corporation holidays. $7.27 per hour for each hour or part of an hour worked at or above a height of 100 feet above ground level.
Paid holidays: 12 days. Any employee wishing to take Easter Monday as a vacation day will be guaranteed that day off.
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks to start, 3 weeks after 3 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 20 years. Up to 20 days can be carried over. All employees working at least 50% of full-time hours receive up to 5 benefit credit days which can be allotted to their health spending account, vacation or a combination of both. Employees with 29 or more years of service receive up to 5 additional working days per year, which can be carried over. Employees at northern locations receive, depending on remoteness of location and service, 4 to 12 additional days.
Overtime: Double time for all overtime worked. Minimum 2 hours if commencing more than 2 hours after normally scheduled quitting time or on normal day of rest. Triple time for all overtime worked beyond 16 consecutive hours. Can be banked for leave of absence.
Meal allowance: For employees engaged in work away from normal place of work or headquarters zone, $52.35 per diem: $9.70 for breakfast, $17.30 for lunch, $25.35 for supper.
Medical benefits: Cost shared for Extended Health Benefits Plan.
Dental: Cost shared for dental plan. 90 per cent reimbursement for basic care, 75 per cent for major work, 50 per cent for orthodontics.
Vision care: $400 every 24 months for each employee and eligible dependant.
Sick leave: 18 days per year to start, 26 days per year after 64 pay periods of service, 246 days maximum accrual.
LTD: Company funds long-term disability plan.
Life insurance: Company and employees both contribute to group life insurance plan.
Bereavement leave: Up to 3 paid days for death of sibling, sibling-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, grandchild. Up to 5 paid days for death of spouse, child, parent, parent-in-law. Up to 3 paid days for death of relative who had been permanently residing in household. Up to 1 paid day to attend funeral as pallbearer or other funeral official.
Seniority – recall rights: 5 years.
Call-in pay: Minimum 3 hours at double time for call out on normal day of rest.
Probationary period: 0.5 year (958 hours).
Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months.
Severance: 23.76 hours of pay for each complete year of service beyond 25 years of service. Prorated for partial years. Paid at time of termination, retirement, or death.
Safety shoes: 85% of purchase price up to maximum of $220 per year. Can be carried over to maximum reimbursement of $440.
Tool allowance: Employees supply their own basic tools as required. Company will supply heavy or special tools. Personal tools worn out or damaged on the job will be repaired or replaced by the company.
Sample rates of annual pay (current):
Administrative representative – input: $30,927.78
Administrative representative 1: $32,474.26 minimum, $45,312.28 maximum
Administrative representative 2, cook , district support representative 2, line trades helper, operator driver 1, serviceworker 1, surveyor’s helper, utilityworker: $36,059.66 minimum, $50,307.66 maximum
Administrative representative 3, cook 2, district serviceworker 2, district support representative 2, operator driver 2, Building maintainer – mechanical (non-certified), mechanic (non-certified), serviceworker 2, technician’s helper, tramway worker, welder (non-certified): $42,649.62 minimum, $55,849.56 maximum
Administrative representative 4, construction inspector 1, district serviceworker 2, serviceworker 3, storekeeper 3, tramway worker lead, utility co-ordinator, fleet parts supplier 2, line maintenance patroller, waterways management lead: $46,471.62 minimum, $61,969.70 maximum
Administrative representative 5, construction inspector 2, coordinator 1, operator driver lead, storekeeper senior: $50,662.82 minimum, $68,797.56 maximum
Assistant district operator 1, bucket truck operator, customer meeting technician, district power cable journeyman, electrical technician 1: $64,491.70 minimum, rising in 3 steps to $80,711.28
Assistant district operator 2, construction lead hand, electrical technician 2, engineering technician 4: $61,435.66 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Assistant shift charge engineer, electrical inspector, electrical/instrumentation technician, electrician senior, estimator/planner, machinist technician 2, mechanical technician 2: $61,435.66 minimum, $87,558.64 maximum
Assistant station operator (hydraulic/converter, thermal – third class ticket), electrician journeyman (construction or industrial): $61,596.08 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
Assistant station operator (thermal – second-class ticket): 64,675.78 minimum, $74,682.18 maximum
Auxiliary plant operator 1 (thermal – fourth-class ticket): $45,143.80
Auxiliary plant operator 2 (fourth-class ticket), engineering technician 1, laboratory technician 1, lagger, survey technician 1, water/wastewater facility operator: $47,401.12 minimum, $63,209.38 maximum
Auxiliary plant operator 2 (third-class ticket): $49,771.28 minimum, $66,369.94 maximum
Boat patroller: $36,059.66 minimum, $50,307.66 maximum
Building maintainer: $36,780.90 minimum, $52,267.80 maximum
Building operator: $43,502.68 minimum, $57,165.68 maximum
Building operator senior, crane operator, diesel journeyman, district serviceworker (journeyman), engineering technician 2, high pressure welder 1, industrial mechanic journeyman, laboratory technician 2, survey technician 3: $51,676.04 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
Caretaker, staff house worker: $32,474.26 minimum, $45,312.28 maximum
Carpenter journeyman, painter journeyman, plumber journeyman: $56,542.20 minimum, $63,482.12 maximum
Carpenter (non-certified), painter (non-certified), plumber (non-certified), utility worker lead: $42,649.62 minimum, $56,589.26 maximum
Customer metering technician senior, diesel technician senior, district operator 2, electrical technician senior, engineering technician senior, fleet technician senior, instrument services technician senior, insulation test technician senior, laboratory technician senior, line inspector (power line journeyman), mechanical technician senior, protection technician senior, senior planner, senior station operator, tele-control technician senior: $66,974.44 minimum, $92,708.98 maximum
Diesel technician 1, distribution system operator, fleet technician 2 (fleet services), laboratory technician 3, machinist technician 1, station operator thermal: $56,380.74 minimum, $80,321.28 maximum
Diesel technician 2, district operator 1, electrical technician construction lead hand, operations lead hand, tele-control technician (SCADA): $61,435.66 minimum, $85,008.56 maximum
Electrical/instrumentation technician senior, live line journeyman senior, operating/electrical technician senior: $66,974.44 minimum, $97,344.52 maximum
Engineering technician 3: $56,380.74 minimum, $80,711.28
Fleet mechanic journeyman: $56,542.20 minimum, $63,209.38 maximum
Fleet parts supplier 1: $46,059.66 minimum, $51,242.62 maximum
Fleet technician: $56,542.20 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
High pressure welder 2: $56,380.74 minimum, $81,101.54 maximum
Instrument services journeyman, instrumentation journeyman: $62,310.82 rising in 3 steps to $77,982.32
Instrument services technician, mechanical journeyman, mechanical technician 1, power cable journeyman, power electrician journeyman, power line technician, station operator (hydraulic/converter): $64,180.22 rising in 3 steps to $80,321.28
Insulation test journeyman, tele-control installer, tele-control journeyman, tele-control technician 1: $64,802.92 rising in 3 steps to $81.101.54
Labourer: $32,400.42 minimum, $42,266.38 maximum
Operating/electrical tech journeyman, operating/electrical technician, operating/mechanical tech journeyman: $67,576.86 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Operating/electrical technician: $70,955.82 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Protection journeyman, protection technician 1: $64,802.92 rising in 3 steps to $81,101.54
Protection technician 2, tele-control technician 2, tradesperson senior (journeyman): $61,435.66 minimum, $88,408.84 maximum
Senior welder: $66,974.44 minimum, $96.417.36
Station operator thermal (second-class): $59,199.66 minimum, $84,337.24 maximum
Storekeeper 1: $36,059.66 minimum, $51,242.62 maximum
Storekeeper 2: $42,649.62 minimum, $56,044.56 maximum
Survey technician senior: $56,380.74 minimum, $77,982.32 maximum
System operator 1: $82,088.24 rising in 3 steps to $85,739.94
System operator 2: $91,936.52 minimum, $92.708.98 maximum
Tradesperson senior (non-certified): $55,275.22 minimum, 79,511.12 maximum
Welder journeyman: $54,149.94 minimum, $63,482.12 maximum
Editor’s notes: Long-service recognition: An employee with 29 or more years of service will accumulate up to 5 working days or 39.6 hours, long-service recognition credits during each year. Once an employee has accumulated the equivalent of one-half day, credits may be utilized as time off with pay.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 2.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2%
Shift premium: 6.7% per shift addition premium for employees regularly working a 2 or 3-shift schedule operating on a continuous basis, 24 hours per day. $1.31 per hour for shift schedule between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. $3.73 per hour for shifts on Saturdays or Sundays and corporation holidays. $7.27 per hour for each hour or part of an hour worked at or above a height of 100 feet above ground level.
Paid holidays: 12 days. Any employee wishing to take Easter Monday as a vacation day will be guaranteed that day off.
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks to start, 3 weeks after 3 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 20 years. Up to 20 days can be carried over. All employees working at least 50% of full-time hours receive up to 5 benefit credit days which can be allotted to their health spending account, vacation or a combination of both. Employees with 29 or more years of service receive up to 5 additional working days per year, which can be carried over. Employees at northern locations receive, depending on remoteness of location and service, 4 to 12 additional days.
Overtime: Double time for all overtime worked. Minimum 2 hours if commencing more than 2 hours after normally scheduled quitting time or on normal day of rest. Triple time for all overtime worked beyond 16 consecutive hours. Can be banked for leave of absence.
Meal allowance: For employees engaged in work away from normal place of work or headquarters zone, $52.35 per diem: $9.70 for breakfast, $17.30 for lunch, $25.35 for supper.
Medical benefits: Cost shared for Extended Health Benefits Plan.
Dental: Cost shared for dental plan. 90 per cent reimbursement for basic care, 75 per cent for major work, 50 per cent for orthodontics.
Vision care: $400 every 24 months for each employee and eligible dependant.
Sick leave: 18 days per year to start, 26 days per year after 64 pay periods of service, 246 days maximum accrual.
LTD: Company funds long-term disability plan.
Life insurance: Company and employees both contribute to group life insurance plan.
Bereavement leave: Up to 3 paid days for death of sibling, sibling-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, grandchild. Up to 5 paid days for death of spouse, child, parent, parent-in-law. Up to 3 paid days for death of relative who had been permanently residing in household. Up to 1 paid day to attend funeral as pallbearer or other funeral official.
Seniority – recall rights: 5 years.
Call-in pay: Minimum 3 hours at double time for call out on normal day of rest.
Probationary period: 0.5 year (958 hours).
Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months.
Severance: 23.76 hours of pay for each complete year of service beyond 25 years of service. Prorated for partial years. Paid at time of termination, retirement, or death.
Safety shoes: 85% of purchase price up to maximum of $220 per year. Can be carried over to maximum reimbursement of $440.
Tool allowance: Employees supply their own basic tools as required. Company will supply heavy or special tools. Personal tools worn out or damaged on the job will be repaired or replaced by the company.
Sample rates of annual pay (current):
Administrative representative – input: $30,927.78
Administrative representative 1: $32,474.26 minimum, $45,312.28 maximum
Administrative representative 2, cook , district support representative 2, line trades helper, operator driver 1, serviceworker 1, surveyor’s helper, utilityworker: $36,059.66 minimum, $50,307.66 maximum
Administrative representative 3, cook 2, district serviceworker 2, district support representative 2, operator driver 2, Building maintainer – mechanical (non-certified), mechanic (non-certified), serviceworker 2, technician’s helper, tramway worker, welder (non-certified): $42,649.62 minimum, $55,849.56 maximum
Administrative representative 4, construction inspector 1, district serviceworker 2, serviceworker 3, storekeeper 3, tramway worker lead, utility co-ordinator, fleet parts supplier 2, line maintenance patroller, waterways management lead: $46,471.62 minimum, $61,969.70 maximum
Administrative representative 5, construction inspector 2, coordinator 1, operator driver lead, storekeeper senior: $50,662.82 minimum, $68,797.56 maximum
Assistant district operator 1, bucket truck operator, customer meeting technician, district power cable journeyman, electrical technician 1: $64,491.70 minimum, rising in 3 steps to $80,711.28
Assistant district operator 2, construction lead hand, electrical technician 2, engineering technician 4: $61,435.66 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Assistant shift charge engineer, electrical inspector, electrical/instrumentation technician, electrician senior, estimator/planner, machinist technician 2, mechanical technician 2: $61,435.66 minimum, $87,558.64 maximum
Assistant station operator (hydraulic/converter, thermal – third class ticket), electrician journeyman (construction or industrial): $61,596.08 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
Assistant station operator (thermal – second-class ticket): 64,675.78 minimum, $74,682.18 maximum
Auxiliary plant operator 1 (thermal – fourth-class ticket): $45,143.80
Auxiliary plant operator 2 (fourth-class ticket), engineering technician 1, laboratory technician 1, lagger, survey technician 1, water/wastewater facility operator: $47,401.12 minimum, $63,209.38 maximum
Auxiliary plant operator 2 (third-class ticket): $49,771.28 minimum, $66,369.94 maximum
Boat patroller: $36,059.66 minimum, $50,307.66 maximum
Building maintainer: $36,780.90 minimum, $52,267.80 maximum
Building operator: $43,502.68 minimum, $57,165.68 maximum
Building operator senior, crane operator, diesel journeyman, district serviceworker (journeyman), engineering technician 2, high pressure welder 1, industrial mechanic journeyman, laboratory technician 2, survey technician 3: $51,676.04 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
Caretaker, staff house worker: $32,474.26 minimum, $45,312.28 maximum
Carpenter journeyman, painter journeyman, plumber journeyman: $56,542.20 minimum, $63,482.12 maximum
Carpenter (non-certified), painter (non-certified), plumber (non-certified), utility worker lead: $42,649.62 minimum, $56,589.26 maximum
Customer metering technician senior, diesel technician senior, district operator 2, electrical technician senior, engineering technician senior, fleet technician senior, instrument services technician senior, insulation test technician senior, laboratory technician senior, line inspector (power line journeyman), mechanical technician senior, protection technician senior, senior planner, senior station operator, tele-control technician senior: $66,974.44 minimum, $92,708.98 maximum
Diesel technician 1, distribution system operator, fleet technician 2 (fleet services), laboratory technician 3, machinist technician 1, station operator thermal: $56,380.74 minimum, $80,321.28 maximum
Diesel technician 2, district operator 1, electrical technician construction lead hand, operations lead hand, tele-control technician (SCADA): $61,435.66 minimum, $85,008.56 maximum
Electrical/instrumentation technician senior, live line journeyman senior, operating/electrical technician senior: $66,974.44 minimum, $97,344.52 maximum
Engineering technician 3: $56,380.74 minimum, $80,711.28
Fleet mechanic journeyman: $56,542.20 minimum, $63,209.38 maximum
Fleet parts supplier 1: $46,059.66 minimum, $51,242.62 maximum
Fleet technician: $56,542.20 minimum, $70,173.48 maximum
High pressure welder 2: $56,380.74 minimum, $81,101.54 maximum
Instrument services journeyman, instrumentation journeyman: $62,310.82 rising in 3 steps to $77,982.32
Instrument services technician, mechanical journeyman, mechanical technician 1, power cable journeyman, power electrician journeyman, power line technician, station operator (hydraulic/converter): $64,180.22 rising in 3 steps to $80,321.28
Insulation test journeyman, tele-control installer, tele-control journeyman, tele-control technician 1: $64,802.92 rising in 3 steps to $81.101.54
Labourer: $32,400.42 minimum, $42,266.38 maximum
Operating/electrical tech journeyman, operating/electrical technician, operating/mechanical tech journeyman: $67,576.86 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Operating/electrical technician: $70,955.82 minimum, $87,984.00 maximum
Protection journeyman, protection technician 1: $64,802.92 rising in 3 steps to $81,101.54
Protection technician 2, tele-control technician 2, tradesperson senior (journeyman): $61,435.66 minimum, $88,408.84 maximum
Senior welder: $66,974.44 minimum, $96.417.36
Station operator thermal (second-class): $59,199.66 minimum, $84,337.24 maximum
Storekeeper 1: $36,059.66 minimum, $51,242.62 maximum
Storekeeper 2: $42,649.62 minimum, $56,044.56 maximum
Survey technician senior: $56,380.74 minimum, $77,982.32 maximum
System operator 1: $82,088.24 rising in 3 steps to $85,739.94
System operator 2: $91,936.52 minimum, $92.708.98 maximum
Tradesperson senior (non-certified): $55,275.22 minimum, 79,511.12 maximum
Welder journeyman: $54,149.94 minimum, $63,482.12 maximum
Editor’s notes: Long-service recognition: An employee with 29 or more years of service will accumulate up to 5 working days or 39.6 hours, long-service recognition credits during each year. Once an employee has accumulated the equivalent of one-half day, credits may be utilized as time off with pay.
