Winnipeg (1,250 workers, plant and maintenance employees) and United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (CLC)
Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2020. Signed on June 22, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: $0.30 per hour for general classifications, $0.40 per hour for semiskilled and skilled classifications
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: $0.30 per hour for general, $0.40 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.50 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $0.30 per hour for general, $0.40 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.50 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: $0.35 per hour for general, $0.45 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.55 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: $0.35 per hour for general, $0.45 per hour for semi 1, $0.50 for semi 2, $0.55 per hour for skilled
Shift premium: $0.75 per hour when designated as a lead hand. $0.50 per hour as corporate trainer. $0.40 per hour for all regularly scheduled hours in a shift where the majority of the hours are between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Paid holidays: 11 days.
Vacations with pay: 1 day for every 21.66 work days to start, 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 19 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half for any time worked greater than 40 hours in a week.
Meal allowance: $8.50 or hot meal, if employee works more than 4 hours of overtime.
Medical benefits: Company pays $0.20 per hour to benefit trust plan.
Dental: Company pays $0.34 per hour to dental plan.
Pension: Employees contribute 2.5% of regular earnings to pension plan.
Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of immediate family member. Up to 2 additional days if funeral is more than 500 kilometres from place of residence. 1 day for death of grandparent-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew.
Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours’ pay.
Probationary period: 22 weeks for full-time employees, 880 hours for part-time employees.
Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months.
Safety shoes: Company provides safety boots each year where required. Probationary employees not eligible for reimbursement for 6 months.
Uniforms/clothing: Company will provide laundered cooler coats, pants (shirts as required), aprons, rubber footwear, wet wear, mousetraps, knives, steels, scabbards, safety head gear, coveralls, mesh gloves, rubber gloves, hair nets, head shroud, beard nets, cotton gloves, freezer jackets. Winter boots and liners provided for workers in freezers and in shipping/receiving departments.
Tool allowance: $300 every 6 months to replace own tools.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after $1 per hour increase):
General 1 classification: $12.60 per hour, rising in 3 steps to $13.60 per hour
General 2 classification: $13.40 rising in 3 steps to $14.40
Semi 1 classification: $14.75 rising in 3 steps to $15.75
Semi 2 classification: $15.75 rising in 3 steps to $16.75
Skilled 1 classification: $17.05 rising in 3 steps to $18.05
Skilled 2 classification: $18.10 rising in 3 steps to $19.10
Sample rates of hourly pay (current):
Third-class engineer: $33
Journeyman: $37.10
Chief engineer: $45.30
Second-class engineer: $40.20
Editor’s notes: Knife sharpening: If the company does not designate an employee to be a knife sharpener on a shift, it will provide sufficient time off (with pay) during the shift for knife sharpening. Citizenship leave: Employees who have applied to become a Canadian citizen will be granted a 1-day unpaid leave to take oath of citizenship. Translation: The company will pay for the cost of translating the collective bargaining agreement into Tagalog. Education, training fund: $0.13 per hour will be deposited in the Manitoba Food & Commercial Workers Local 832, Education and Training Trust Fund.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: $0.30 per hour for general classifications, $0.40 per hour for semiskilled and skilled classifications
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: $0.30 per hour for general, $0.40 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.50 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $0.30 per hour for general, $0.40 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.50 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: $0.35 per hour for general, $0.45 per hour for semi-skilled, $0.55 per hour for skilled
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: $0.35 per hour for general, $0.45 per hour for semi 1, $0.50 for semi 2, $0.55 per hour for skilled
Shift premium: $0.75 per hour when designated as a lead hand. $0.50 per hour as corporate trainer. $0.40 per hour for all regularly scheduled hours in a shift where the majority of the hours are between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Paid holidays: 11 days.
Vacations with pay: 1 day for every 21.66 work days to start, 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 19 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half for any time worked greater than 40 hours in a week.
Meal allowance: $8.50 or hot meal, if employee works more than 4 hours of overtime.
Medical benefits: Company pays $0.20 per hour to benefit trust plan.
Dental: Company pays $0.34 per hour to dental plan.
Pension: Employees contribute 2.5% of regular earnings to pension plan.
Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of immediate family member. Up to 2 additional days if funeral is more than 500 kilometres from place of residence. 1 day for death of grandparent-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew.
Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours’ pay.
Probationary period: 22 weeks for full-time employees, 880 hours for part-time employees.
Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months.
Safety shoes: Company provides safety boots each year where required. Probationary employees not eligible for reimbursement for 6 months.
Uniforms/clothing: Company will provide laundered cooler coats, pants (shirts as required), aprons, rubber footwear, wet wear, mousetraps, knives, steels, scabbards, safety head gear, coveralls, mesh gloves, rubber gloves, hair nets, head shroud, beard nets, cotton gloves, freezer jackets. Winter boots and liners provided for workers in freezers and in shipping/receiving departments.
Tool allowance: $300 every 6 months to replace own tools.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after $1 per hour increase):
General 1 classification: $12.60 per hour, rising in 3 steps to $13.60 per hour
General 2 classification: $13.40 rising in 3 steps to $14.40
Semi 1 classification: $14.75 rising in 3 steps to $15.75
Semi 2 classification: $15.75 rising in 3 steps to $16.75
Skilled 1 classification: $17.05 rising in 3 steps to $18.05
Skilled 2 classification: $18.10 rising in 3 steps to $19.10
Sample rates of hourly pay (current):
Third-class engineer: $33
Journeyman: $37.10
Chief engineer: $45.30
Second-class engineer: $40.20
Editor’s notes: Knife sharpening: If the company does not designate an employee to be a knife sharpener on a shift, it will provide sufficient time off (with pay) during the shift for knife sharpening. Citizenship leave: Employees who have applied to become a Canadian citizen will be granted a 1-day unpaid leave to take oath of citizenship. Translation: The company will pay for the cost of translating the collective bargaining agreement into Tagalog. Education, training fund: $0.13 per hour will be deposited in the Manitoba Food & Commercial Workers Local 832, Education and Training Trust Fund.
