Canadian Labour Reporter

January 6, 2020 4 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2019 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS PIPE COATING Shaw Pipe Protection Camrose, Alta. (95 operators, maintenance employees) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW), Local 1-207 Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2021. Ratified on April 10, 2019. Signed on April 10, 2019. Shift premium: $1.50 per hour for lead-hands. $1 per hour for hours worked during afternoon shifts. $1.50 per hour for hours worked during night shifts. $0.25 per hour for employer- designated first-aid personnel. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 1 day per month, maximum 10 days, to start, 3 weeks or 6% after 1 year, 4 weeks or 8% after 5 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 17 years, 6 weeks or 12% after 25 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for work on Saturday or plant holidays, while on 8-hour shifts; double time after 4 hours of overtime, on Sundays. Time and one-half for all work in excess of regular daily hours; double time after 2 hours of overtime, while on 10-hour shifts. Time and one-half for first 8 hours worked on first scheduled day off; double time thereafter. Dental: 90% reimbursement for preventative. 80% reimbursement for endodontics, periodontics. 70% reimbursement for dentures, denture repair. 70% reimbursement for crown, bridges. Vision: Coverage of $400 per employee or dependant over 2-year period with no carry- over. STD: Coverage of 66 2/3% of weekly equivalent of annual maximum insurable earnings. LTD: Employee pays 100% of premiums for coverage of 66 2/3% of earnings AD&D: Coverage of 1-times annual earnings, maximum $1,000,000. Life insurance: Coverage of 1-times annual earnings, maximum $1,000,000. Pension: Employer will contribute $3.05 per hour (previously $2.90 per hour) into group RRSP. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate family (wife, husband, common-law spouse, mother, father, children, stepchildren, stepparents, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparents- in-law). Employer may approve unpaid time off, maximum 1 day for death not in immediate family. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months to start; 24 months after 1 year of service; 30 months after 5 years of service; 36 months after 8 years of service. Call-in pay: Time and one-half, minimum 3 hours' pay. Probationary period: 600 hours worked in 12 consecutive months. Safety shoes: Employer will reimburse actual costs for safety boots, maximum $200, after 6 months of service. All employees are required to wear approved protective footwear when working at plant. Employees who do not own safety boots will be required to buy safety boots. 1-year carryover for any unused boot reimbursement. Based on 1 pair for inside employees; 2 pairs for maintenance employees; 1 summer, 1 winter pair for employees who work full-time in yard (4 consecutive months). Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide hard hats and liners for winter, mitts and liners, lined gloves and unlined gloves, rain gear, steel-toed rubber boots (replacement on exchange basis with fair wear and tear), safety glasses, hearing protection for outside use; hard hats, 2 types of masks (dust and respirator), rubber gloves, unlined gloves, safety glasses, rain suit for acid booth, hearing protection for inside use. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 2% increase): Class 1 (new-hire rate) Start rate to 600 hours: $19.24 rising 2 steps to $19.62 600 hours to 1,500 hours: $20.25 rising 2 steps to $20.66 1,500 hours to 2,600 hours: $21.26 rising 2 steps to $21.69 2,600 hours to 3,500 hours: $22.28 rising 2 steps to $22.72 Utility labourer: $26.31 rising 2 steps to $26.84 Kick-off operator: $26.95 rising 2 steps to $27.49 Grinding station operator/ HPCC kick-off/yard signal person: $27.60 rising 2 steps to $28.16 Acid-water treatment operator/ holiday-inspection operator/ maintenance labourer: $29.91 rising 2 steps to $30.51 Small fork-truck operator/ banding-truck operator/ assistant Wheelabrator operator/preheat operator/ outside tallyman/Bobcat operator/beveling machine operator: $32.18 rising 2 steps to $32.82 Assistant FBE operator: $33.47 rising 2 steps to $34.15 Wheelabrator operator/inside tallyman/grader operator/ extruder operator/storekeeper: $33.47 rising 2 steps to $34.15 Large forklift operator: $36.06 rising 2 steps to $36.78 FBE operator: $37.34 rising 2 steps to $38.09 Crane operator: $39.05 rising 2 steps to $39.84 Licensed tradesman: $45 rising 2 steps to $45.90 Apprentices First-year apprentice: 60% of journeyman rate Second-year apprentice: 70% of journeyman rate Third-year apprentice: 80% of journeyman rate Fourth-year apprentice: 90% of journeyman rate Editor's notes: Safety glasses: Employer will reimburse employees $350-per-year maximum, for prescription safety glasses (1-year carry-over is allowed). Education fund: Employer will contribute $0.05 per hour per employee for each hour worked to United Steelworkers, Local Union 1-207 Education Fund for education, training of union mem- bers. Humanity fund: Employer will contribute $0.02 per hour per employee for each hour worked to United Steel- workers Humanity Fund. HOTELS Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel Surrey, B.C. (110 hotel employees) and Unifor, Local 3000 Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2021. Signed on Oct. 23, 2018. Wage adjustments: Effective date of ratification: $0.50 per hour Effective May 1, 2019: $0.25 per hour Effective May 1, 2020: $0.35 per hour Shift premium: Employee will be paid at rate of highest classification provided employee works in higher classification for 4 or more hours during shift where

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