March 4, 2019
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Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2019
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
TRACK CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE
A&B Rail Services and Allied Rail Services
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
(470 construction workers) and the Construction and General Workers' Union (LiUNA), Local
92 and the Construction and General Workers' Union (LiUNA), Local 180
Renewal agreement: Effective
June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2021.
Ratified on Aug. 27, 2018.
Signed on Oct. 1, 2018.
Shift premium: $1 per hour for
shift beginning after 6 p.m. or
before 4 a.m.
Paid holidays: 11 days.
Vacations with pay: When
vacations are taken (such vaca-
tions will be mutually agreed
upon between employer and
employee and will not be un-
reasonably withheld), it will be
unpaid time off. 10% vacation
and holiday pay on each cheque.
Overtime: Time and one-half
for all work after 8 hours per
day or 44 hours per week. Time
and one-half for all work after
4 hours of work on sixth con-
secutive day of work and all
work on seventh consecutive
day of work.
Meal allowance: Meal (hot
when possible) or $20 when
employee works more than
11 unscheduled daily hours.
Medical benefits: Laborers'
Health and Welfare Trust Fund
of Western Canada.
Pension: Laborers' Pension
Fund of Western Canada.
Bereavement leave: 3 days of
leave with a pay at $100 per day
for death in immediate family
(mother, father, mother-in-law,
father-in-law, brother, sister,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law,
husband, wife, children, grand-
children, grandparents).
Seniority – recall rights:
12 months.
Safety shoes: After 600 hours
of work, employees will receive
$200 in first and second year,
$250 in third year of agreement,
once per year.
Mileage: $0.55 per kilometre
(when project located beyond
free zone).
Sample rates of hourly pay
(current, after increase):
Labourer: $28.28 rising 3 steps
to $29.84
Track and class C operator:
$30.76 rising 3 steps to $32.32
Senior trackman/senior class C
operator: $31.86 rising 3 steps
to $33.42
Lead-hand/assistant foreman:
$33.23 rising 3 steps to $34.79
Class B operator: $33.78 rising
3 steps to $35.34
Senior class B operator: $36.53
rising 3 steps to $38.09
Class A operator: $38.18 rising
3 steps to $39.74
Senior class A operator: $40.93
rising 3 steps to $42.49
Labour foreman: $38.18 rising
3 steps to $39.74
Senior labour foreman: $40.93
rising 3 steps to $42.49
Editor's notes: Daily board allowance: $56 per day on jobs where hotel accommodation is provided by employer
room and board will be supplied at no cost to employee and no more than 2 employees per room. Effective June 1,
2019: $57 per day. Effective June 1, 2020: $58 per day.
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