Nelson Lumber Company

Lloydminster, Alta. (30 operators, labourers, assemblers, maintenance workers) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW), Local 1-207

Renewal agreement: Effective Sept. 1, 2017, to Aug. 31, 2019. Ratified on Nov. 22, 2017. Signed on Nov. 22, 2017.
Shift premium: $1 per hour for second shift. $1.25 per hour for third shift.
Paid holidays: 11 days. Recognized holidays pay: Employer will advance $75 per day for statutory holiday pay for employees returning from layoff during January. 
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks or 4% to start, 3 weeks of 6% after 3 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 10 years. 
Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 hours Monday to Friday. Time and one-half for department 1 and 2 employees working on Saturday, double time for all employees for work on Sunday. 
Medical benefits: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums. 
Vision: $150 per employee or dependant every 2 years for prescription glasses. $50 per employee or dependant every 2 years for eye exam.
Paramedical: $300 per year for paramedical practitioners.
Weekly indemnity: 60% of regular weekly earnings, maximum of $445 per week, maximum of 39 weeks.
LTD: 60% of regular weekly earnings, maximum $250 per week, with cost of living adjustment, maximum 3% per year, based on consumer price index. 
AD&D: Coverage of $80,000. $100,000 for paralysis; rehabilitation benefits maximum $10,000; home and vehicle modification maximum $10,000 for quadriplegia, paraplegia or hemiplegia. Daycare benefit of maximum 3% of principal sum, maximum $5,000 per year for 4 years. Repatriation to return home employee’s body, maximum $10,000.
Life insurance: Coverage of $80,000. 
Pension: IWA-Forest Industry Pension Plan. Employees employed as of Oct. 5, 2004, will receive an additional 5% of gross earnings as wage premium.
Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate family (spouse, common-law spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, legal guardian, stepparents, grandparents, grandchildren, grandparents-in-law, stepchildren, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law).
Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. 
Call-in pay: Minimum of 3 hours at straight time rate or actual hours worked at overtime rates, whichever is greater.
Probationary period: 45 days. 
Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months.
Safety shoes: $175 per year (previously $150 per year), may be carried forward, maximum $175. 
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 1.2% increase):
Bracket F (department lead hand, maintenance man, department lead hand, maintenance man, class 1 driver, picker truck operator): $23.31 rising 1 step to $23.60
Bracket E (lead-hand loading crew, component-saw operator, speed-saw operator, lead hands (lead-hand trusses, lead-hand panels, lead-hand stairs, lead-hand exterior door, lead-hand partitions, lead-hand floor truss), receiver (except store warehouse), returns coordinator, switch-truck operator, local truck driver, loader operator): $22.76 rising 1 step to $23.04
Bracket D (forklift operator, table-saw operator, retail customer service, forklift operator, door-machine operator): $21.94 rising 1 step to $22.21
Bracket C (factory assembler, picker): $21.36 rising 1 step to $21.63
Bracket B (yard pick/out): $20.27 rising 1 step to $20.52
Bracket A (general labour (saw helper, load/unload materials, pile materials, panel-assembly labour, partition-assembly labour, truss-assembly labour, load/unload materials, pile materials, warehouse labour, loading-crew labour, truck swamper, picker swamper): $19.37 rising 1 step to $19.61
New hire: $15.25
Editor’s notes: Hearing aids: $500 every 5 years. Humanity fund: $0.01 per hour from wages of all employees in bargaining unit for all hours worked, maximum of 40 straight time hours per week to United Steelworkers Humanity Fund.
 

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