Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Steamfitter: $41.10 Welder: $39.03 Welder B pressure: $41.10 4-year apprentice journeyman rate $52.63 Year 1 60% $31.58 Year 2 70% $36.84 Year 3 80% $42.10 Year 4 90% $47.37 4-year apprentice journeyman rate: $50 Year 1 60%: $30 Year 2 70%: $35 Year 3 80%: $40 Year 4 90%: $45 4-year apprentice journeyman rate: $41.10 Year 1 60%: $24.66 Year 2 70%: $28.77 Year 3 80%: $32.88 Year 4 90%: $36.99 3-year apprentice journeyman rate: $41.10 Year 1 70%: $28.77 Year 2 80%: $32.88 Year 3 90%: $36.99 4-year apprentice journeyman rate: $39.03 Year 1 60%: $23.42 Year 2 70%: $27.32 Year 3 80%: $31.22 Year 4 90%: $35.13 3-year apprentice journeyman rate: $39.03 Year 1 70%: $27.32 Year 2 80%: $31.22 Year 3 90%: $35.13 2-year apprentice journeyman rate: $41.10 Year 1 70%: $28.77 Year 2 85%: $34.94 1-year apprentice journeyman rate: $39.03 Year 1 70%: $27.32 Editor's notes: Meetings: Employees attending union-employer meetings during regular working hours will be entitled to wages. If meetings are held outside participating employee's regular working hours, employer will pay employees 1 hour of wages for time spent attending meetings. Training allowances: Employer will pay employees for training and recertification that is required as part of employment and is conducted off-site and outside of normal shift: $100 per day (previously $90 per day) for classes less than 4 hours; $200 per day (previously $180 per day) for classes greater than 4 hours. Additionally employer will pay full cost of training and recertification. Prescription safety eyewear: Employer will reimburse employee cost of prescription safety eyewear, maximum $250 (employee must have worked 600 hours for first reimbursement). Train- ing trust fund: Employer will contribute $0.05 per hour to training trust fund. Education fund: Employer will contribute $0.08 per hour to education fund. Industry fund: Employer will contribute $0.03 per hour to industry fund. CONSTRUCTION Walls and Ceilings Contractors Association of Ottawa Ottawa (200 plasterers, masons) and the Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons International Association (OPCMIA), Local 124 Renewal agreement: Effective July 13, 2021 to April 30, 2024. Ratified in July 2021. Signed on Aug. 9, 2021. Wage adjustments: Effective July 13, 2021: 9.8% Effective May 1, 2022: 2.6% Effective May 7, 2023: 2.5% Shift premium: 8 hours' pay for 7 hours worked for occu- pied premises work. Foreman receives $1 per hour above normal rate. Paid holidays: 9 days. Em- ployer will pay 11% as vacation and holiday pay. Overtime: Time and one-half for any time worked in excess of regular working day and all work performed on Saturday, Sunday or paid holiday. Medical benefits: Employer contributes to employee wel- fare plan. Pension: Employer contrib- utes to pension plan. Mileage: $75 per day for all work located beyond radius of 60 kilometres of intersec- tion of Carling and Preston Streets. Sample rates of pay (current, after 5.1% increase): High-rise apartments or con- dominiums: $35.66 rising 2 steps to $37.48 Low-rise housing including townhouses: $30.11 rising 2 steps to $31.91 Sample rates of piecework pay (current, after 5.1% in- crease): Taping apartment building: $315 per 1,000 square feet ris- ing 2 steps to $360 Taping apartment building (smooth ceilings): $850 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $898 Taping apartment building (texture spray): $283 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $299 Taping apartment building (sanding): $69 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $77 Taping wood-frame residential construction: $280 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $294 Taping wood-frame residential construction (sanding): $68 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $76 Taping wood-frame residential (texture spray): $206 per 1,000 square feet rising 2 steps to $218 Taping wood-frame residential (skylights): $105 per skylight rising 2 steps to $128 Sample rates of pay (cur- rent): Apprentices First 1,200-hour work period: 50% Second 1,200-hour work pe- riod: 65% Third 1,200-hour work period: 80% Fourth 1,200-hour work per- iod: 90% Fifth 1,200-hour work period: 90% Editor's notes: Association fund: Employer will contribute $0.30 per hour to Walls and Ceilings Contractors Association (WACCA) of Ottawa Association Fund. EDUCATION University of Alberta Non-Academic Staff Association Edmonton (11 administrative, communication employees, labour relations officers) and the Canadian Union Of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1158 Renewal agreement: Effect- ive April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2024 . Ratified on Oct. 3, 2021. Signed on Oct. 16, 2021. Shift premium: Double time when employee works with less than 8 hours of rest between shifts. 5% of base pay or differ- ence between regular salary and minimum base pay for higher level position, which- ever is greater, when employee assumes duties and responsibil- ities of higher level position. 10% of employee's base rate and right to revert back to former position without loss of bene- fits or accruable entitlements when employee performs duties and responsibilities of out-of-scope position tempor- arily (seniority will continue to accrue for 6 months only). Paid holidays: 12 days, includ- 5 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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