Details of agreements between unions and Suncor Energy, City of Edmonton
The following details of labour agreements were compiled by CLV Reports, a sister publication to Canadian HR Reporter that looks at trends in collective bargaining and labour relations. For more information, visit www.hrreporter.com/clv.
Suncor energy
10 locations across Canada
(3,200 employees at refineries and petroleum processors and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada)
Renewal agreement: Effective Feb. 1, 2010, to expire Jan. 31, 2013. Ratified on May 1, 2010, with 92 per cent voting in favour.
Wage adjustments:
Feb. 1, 2010: 2.5 per cent.
Feb. 1, 2011: 3 per cent.
Feb. 1, 2012: 3.25 per cent.
Paid holidays: 12, including one floater, unchanged.
Vacations with pay: Three weeks after one year, four after 10, five after 18, six after 25, unchanged.
Benefits and pension: Bargained outside the collective agreement process — no details available.
Editor’s notes: Pattern settlement: This agreement is the pattern settlement for 2010 energy and petrochemical bargaining. Local bargaining continues for local issues, including the “oilsands supplement” for employees in Fort McMurray, Alta.
City of Edmonton
Edmonton
(1,588 police officers and the Edmonton Police Association)
Renewal agreement: Effective April 11, 2010, to expire Dec. 18, 2010. The previous agreement expired on Dec. 20, 2008. Ratified on April 6, 2010, with 96 per cent voting in favour.
Wage adjustments:
Dec. 21, 2008: 4.5 per cent.
Oct. 25, 2009: 1.2 per cent.
Dec. 6, 2009: 0.5 per cent.
Dec. 20, 2009: 4.5 per cent.
June 6, 2010: 0.5 per cent.
Dec. 5, 2010: 0.4 per cent.
Paid holidays: 12, unchanged.
Vacations with pay: Three weeks after one year, four after seven, five after 16, six after 22, unchanged.
Shift premium: Zero cents-$1.10-$1.20. Call-in is a minimum of five hours at regular rates. Standby is one hour on a scheduled day, two hours on a day of rest or a holiday. Arrest Processing Unit premium is $2 per hour, previously $5.75 per week. Service pay is $60 per year for each five full years of service. Training premium is $2, previously $1.50, per hour.
Overtime: Double time over regularly assigned hours. Overtime can be accumulated to 320 hours.
Medical benefits: Alberta Health Care was cost-shared 50/50. The premium has been eliminated but the language will remain. Supplementary health-care plan, cost-shared 70/30, provides semi-private hospital. With $30 annual deductible and 80/20 co-insurance, plan provides prescription drugs; private-duty nursing to $2,000 per year; counselling by a psychologist to $1,000 per year; physiotherapy or chiropractic to $1,000 per year; $500 per year for a podiatrist or acupuncturist; hearing aids to $500 every 60 months; and eye exams to $50 every 24 months. Health-care spending account is $500 per year for full-time employees, $250 per year for part-time.
Dental: Plan, cost-shared 65/35, provides 100 per cent reimbursement of basic and preventive care, including endodontics, periodontics and prosthodontics, 80 per cent of repairs to crowns and bridges, and 50 per cent of major restorative, including new crowns and bridges. Orthodontics is reimbursed 50 per cent to a lifetime maximum of $2,500.
Short-term disability: City-paid plan provides 100 per cent of regular wages for 17 weeks in the event of non-occupational illness or injury, integrated with all government benefits. Officers hired before 1990 retain a sick leave bank that is partially cashed out on retirement.
Long-term disability: Employee-paid plan provides a benefit of 55 per cent of salary for employees earning up to $40,000, decreasing to 50 per cent for those earning $70,001 or more until recovery, death or age 65. Benefits are indexed.
Life insurance: Coverage, cost-shared 50/50, of one times salary for employees without dependents and 2.5 times salary for those with dependents.
Accidental death and dismemberment: Coverage of $100,000 cost-shared 50/50 between the city and the union.
Pension: Special Forces Pension Plan to which the city and employees contribute.
Rates of pay: first-year constable, $52,188; fifth-year constable, $82,838; sergeant/detective, $99,406; staff sergeant, $109,346.
Editor’s notes: Patrol sergeant: On July 4, 2010, the rank of patrol sergeant will be created with a salary of 123 per cent of a fifth-year constable. After 25 years, patrol sergeant’s salary is 126 per cent of fifth-year constable. Bereavement: Three consecutive working days for the death of a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, spouse’s grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law. Clothing allowance: Annual allowance of $1,022 for plain-clothes officers. Annual allowance of $597 for uniformed officers. Supplementation of compensation: Officers who suffer compensable illness or injury “in the course of his work for the city” will have their benefits topped up to 100 per cent of regular wages.
