Canadian Labour Reporter

March 12, 2018 8 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2018 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS common-law spouse, mother, father or child of common-law spouse, child, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, stepchildren, stepparents). Probationary period: 60 days. Safety shoes: $400 per 2-year period (previously $160 per year) for CSA-approved work boots. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will supply gloves, 2 pairs of coveralls per year. Tool allowance: Saws will be sharpened at employer's expense, maximum twice per month. Employer will sup- ply patent miter box or power machine, if required. Employer will pay $0.09 per hour for each hour worked for tool allowance. Effective March 1, 2019: $0.12 per hour. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Journeyman carpenter: $39.55 rising 1 step to $39.95 Pre-apprentice carpenters: 60% of journeyman carpenter's rate First-year carpenters: 65% of journeyman carpenter' rate Second-year carpenters: 75% of journeyman carpenter' rate Third-year carpenters: 85% of journeyman carpenter' rate Fourth-year carpenters: 95% of journeyman carpenter' rate Lead hand: 12% above journey- man carpenter's rate Sub-foreman: 6% above lead hand's rate Foreman: 6% above sub-fore- man's rate Editor's notes: Loss of tools: Following fire or break-in, employer will compensate carpenters/ apprentices maximum $800 for any loss of stored tools. WOOD BUILDING SUPPLIES Nelson Lumber Company Lloydminster, Alta. (30 operators, labourers, assemblers, maintenance workers) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW), Local 1-207 Renewal agreement: Effec- tive Sept. 1, 2017, to Aug. 31, 2019. Ratified on Nov. 22, 2017. Signed on Nov. 22, 2017. Shift premium: $1 per hour for second shift. $1.25 per hour for third shift. Paid holidays: 11 days. Recog- nized holidays pay: Employer will advance $75 per day for statutory holiday pay for em- ployees returning from layoff during January. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks or 4% to start, 3 weeks of 6% after 3 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 10 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 hours Mon- day to Friday. Time and one- half for department 1 and 2 em- ployees working on Saturday, double time for all employees for work on Sunday. Medical benefits: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employ- ee pays 50% of premiums. Vision: $150 per employee or dependant every 2 years for prescription glasses. $50 per employee or dependant every 2 years for eye exam. Paramedical: $300 per year for paramedical practitioners. Weekly indemnity: 60% of reg- ular weekly earnings, maximum of $445 per week, maximum of 39 weeks. LTD: 60% of regular weekly earnings, maximum $250 per week, with cost of living adjust- ment, maximum 3% per year, based on consumer price index. AD&D: Coverage of $80,000. $100,000 for paralysis; reha- bilitation benefits maximum $10,000; home and ve- hicle modification maximum $10,000 for quadriplegia, para- plegia or hemiplegia. Daycare benefit of maximum 3% of prin- cipal sum, maximum $5,000 per year for 4 years. Repatriation to return home employee's body, maximum $10,000. Life insurance: Coverage of $80,000. Pension: IWA-Forest Indus- try Pension Plan. Employees employed as of Oct. 5, 2004, will receive an additional 5% of gross earnings as wage pre- mium. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate family (spouse, common-law spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, legal guardian, stepparents, grandparents, grandchildren, grandparents-in-law, stepchil- dren, brother-in-law, sister-in- law, son-in-law, daughter-in- law). Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Call-in pay: Minimum of 3 hours at straight time rate or ac- tual hours worked at overtime rates, whichever is greater. Probationary period: 45 days. Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months. Safety shoes: $175 per year (previously $150 per year), may be carried forward, maximum $175. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 1.2% increase): Bracket F (department lead hand, maintenance man, de- partment lead hand, mainte- nance man, class 1 driver, picker truck operator): $23.31 rising 1 step to $23.60 Bracket E (lead-hand loading crew, component-saw operator, speed-saw operator, lead hands (lead-hand trusses, lead-hand panels, lead-hand stairs, lead- hand exterior door, lead-hand partitions, lead-hand floor truss), receiver (except store warehouse), returns coordina- tor, switch-truck operator, local truck driver, loader operator): $22.76 rising 1 step to $23.04 Bracket D (forklift operator, table-saw operator, retail cus- tomer service, forklift operator, door-machine operator): $21.94 rising 1 step to $22.21 Bracket C (factory assembler, picker): $21.36 rising 1 step to $21.63 Bracket B (yard pick/out): $20.27 rising 1 step to $20.52 Bracket A (general labour (saw helper, load/unload materials, pile materials, panel-assembly labour, partition-assembly labour, truss-assembly labour, load/unload materials, pile materials, warehouse labour, loading-crew labour, truck swamper, picker swamper): $19.37 rising 1 step to $19.61 New hire: $15.25 Editor's notes: Hearing aids: $500 every 5 years. Humanity fund: $0.01 per hour from wages of all employees in bargaining unit for all hours worked, maximum of 40 straight time hours per week to United Steelworkers Humanity Fund. Humanity fund: $0.01 per hour from wages for all hours worked, maximum 40 hours per week to United Steelworkers Humanity Fund.

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