Ledcor Site Services Ltd – Mining

Location: province-wide, Alberta
Union: Christian Labour Association of Canada
Affiliation: Independent-national
Number of employees: 750
Bargaining unit: mining employees

A 28-month renewal agreement effective from June 1, 2013 to October 31, 2015, settled in October 2014 at the bargaining stage.  Duration of negotiations - 6 months.

Wages

Effective
May 5, 2013
General Adjustments Various
Hourly Rates
Labourer- intermediate $27.27
[$26.06]
Pipelayer $43.54
[$41.56]
Maintenance -Welder (Certified) B‑Pressure $51.31
[$45.86]

Hours of Work

40 per week [unchanged].

Holidays

11 days [unchanged]

Premiums

Lead Hand Premium: 105% of the employee’s base wage rate and will be the new base wage rate.

Foreman and General Foreman Premium: Foreman will receive 100% of the Journeyperson base wage rate and will be the new base wage rate. General Foreman will receive 115% of the Journeyperson base wage rate and will be the new base wage rate.

Steward Premium: $1.00-$3.00 per hour.

Night Premium: Employees working between 17:00 and 8:00 receive a premium of $1.50 per hour.

Training Premium: Employees who are selected to train equipment operators will receive a premium of $1.00/hour for hours spent training another employee on a piece of equipment.

Allowances

Prescription Safety Glasses: The Employer will reimburse any employee 50% of the cost of prescription safety eyewear up to two hundred dollars ($200.00) to any employee who has worked for 1,200 hours. For any subsequent reimbursement the employee must have worked an additional 4,000 hours from the last reimbursement.

Leave

Bereavement: 3 days paid to make arrangements for and to attend the funeral of the employee’s spouse, common law spouse, child, legal dependant, father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, grandparents, and grandchildren.

Marriage, Compassion Care, Parental, Union, and Personal: Employer may grant leaves of absence without pay, for a time mutually agreed upon between the Employer and the employee.

Employer Contributions

Health and Welfare: $1.25 included in total pay [unchanged].

Vacation Pay: 6.0% of gross earnings [unchanged].

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Note: This summary reflects the information available in the collective agreement.