Provincewide, Ontario (300 plasterers) and Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA)
Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2016, to April 30, 2018. Signed on May 1, 2016.
Shift premium: Foreman: When supervising 5 to 20 workers, the foreman will be paid 9% more than a journeyman. $1.50 for any employee required to work on a swing scaffold or bosun’s (boatswain’s chair).
Paid holidays: 9 days.
Vacations with pay: 12% paid.
Overtime: Time and one-half for the first 4 hours worked after regular hours. Double time thereafter.
Tool allowance: Employers will supply derbies, straight edges, feather edges, plumb rods, cornice rods. All plasterers must have a full kit of tools: browning trowel, finishing trowel, gauging trowel, pointing trowel, hawk, float, paddle, finishing brush, set of milter tools, hammer, chalk line, level, snips, saw, square, rule, 3 broad knives, Gyproc board knife, axe, safety glasses, stainless steel trowel, measuring tape, putty knife, drywall knife, corner tool, rasping tool, clean brush, drill/screw gun, hand level, plumb bob. Drywall taper to supply own pole sander; employer will supply sandpaper.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase):
Territorial jurisdiction
The counties of Victoria, Durham, Ontario, York, Dufferin, Simcoe, Peel. The districts of Muskoka, Haliburton, also part of the county of Halton: $50.53 rising 2 steps to $52.48
The district of Sudbury, Manitoulin Island, Algoma, Nipissing (save and except to Townships of Cambers, Strathy, Briggs and Strathcona), Parry Sound, Cochrane, Timiskaming, the townships of Chambers, Strathy, Briggs and Strathcona in the district of Nipsissing: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
The counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Leeds, Frontenac, Grenville, Dundas, Stormont, Glengarry, Prescott, Russell. The Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prince Edward: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
The counties of Essex and Kent: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59
The counties of Lambton: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59
The cities of Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford and the adjacent area. The counties of Halton, Wentworth, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand and the townships of Caistor, North and South Grimsby in the County of Lincoln: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
Editor’s notes: Parking: The employer will reimburse any employee who is obliged to pay more than one parking charge per day by reason of being reassigned to — or transferred from — more than one job site on a work day. Travel allowance: $100 per day for work outside the designated free zones (a radius of 32 kilometres from Toronto city hall, 60 kilometres from Ottawa’s Carling Avenue and Preston Streets, and 48 kilometres from all other centres).
Shift premium: Foreman: When supervising 5 to 20 workers, the foreman will be paid 9% more than a journeyman. $1.50 for any employee required to work on a swing scaffold or bosun’s (boatswain’s chair).
Paid holidays: 9 days.
Vacations with pay: 12% paid.
Overtime: Time and one-half for the first 4 hours worked after regular hours. Double time thereafter.
Tool allowance: Employers will supply derbies, straight edges, feather edges, plumb rods, cornice rods. All plasterers must have a full kit of tools: browning trowel, finishing trowel, gauging trowel, pointing trowel, hawk, float, paddle, finishing brush, set of milter tools, hammer, chalk line, level, snips, saw, square, rule, 3 broad knives, Gyproc board knife, axe, safety glasses, stainless steel trowel, measuring tape, putty knife, drywall knife, corner tool, rasping tool, clean brush, drill/screw gun, hand level, plumb bob. Drywall taper to supply own pole sander; employer will supply sandpaper.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase):
Territorial jurisdiction
The counties of Victoria, Durham, Ontario, York, Dufferin, Simcoe, Peel. The districts of Muskoka, Haliburton, also part of the county of Halton: $50.53 rising 2 steps to $52.48
The district of Sudbury, Manitoulin Island, Algoma, Nipissing (save and except to Townships of Cambers, Strathy, Briggs and Strathcona), Parry Sound, Cochrane, Timiskaming, the townships of Chambers, Strathy, Briggs and Strathcona in the district of Nipsissing: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
The counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Leeds, Frontenac, Grenville, Dundas, Stormont, Glengarry, Prescott, Russell. The Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prince Edward: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
The counties of Essex and Kent: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59
The counties of Lambton: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59
The cities of Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford and the adjacent area. The counties of Halton, Wentworth, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand and the townships of Caistor, North and South Grimsby in the County of Lincoln: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71
Editor’s notes: Parking: The employer will reimburse any employee who is obliged to pay more than one parking charge per day by reason of being reassigned to — or transferred from — more than one job site on a work day. Travel allowance: $100 per day for work outside the designated free zones (a radius of 32 kilometres from Toronto city hall, 60 kilometres from Ottawa’s Carling Avenue and Preston Streets, and 48 kilometres from all other centres).
