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Collective Agreements

Members at Ball Packaging achieve financial gains

Members at Ball Packaging Products Whitby Plant ratified a new three-year collective agreement on December 18, 2003. Contract highlights include:

• Across-the-board wage gains for Skilled Trades of 30 cents per hour in the first year of the contract; 60 cents per hour in the second year of the contract; and 75 cents per hour in the third year of the contract.

• Across-the-board wage gains for workers in all other classifications of 50 cents per hour in the first year of the contract; 60 cents per hour in the second year of the contract; and 75 cents per hour in the third year of the contract.

• Increased life insurance payouts to $42,000 by the end of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the dental plan in each year of the collective agreement.

• Increased vision care benefit to $200, effective December 1. 2003.

• Life time maximum increase of $10,000 to $40,000 for major medical.

• Increased contributions to the Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension Plan (CCWIPP) provide a benefit of $42.50 per month per year of future credited service in the first year of the contract; $50.00 per month per year of future credited service in the second year of the contract; and $57.50 per month per year of future credited service in the third year of the contract.

• GRRSP contribution maintained at $900 maximum per year.

• New language covering training and contracting out.

• Changes to vacation guidelines to allow increased time off for mechanics in July and August.

Members at Bloor Meat Market ratify contract with several monetary improvements

Members at Bloor Meat Marketing ratified a new two-year collective agreement on November 27, 2003. Contract highlights include:

• Wage increase of 30 cents per hour in each year of the collective agreement for counter personnel and general help classification. *

• A wage increase of $1.04 per hour for Journeyman Meat Cutters. *

• Bonus of $500 in each year of the collective agreement for the Head Meat Cutter.

• Christmas bonus: full-time counter personnel are entitled to $200 Christmas bonus.

• Sick days: full-time counter personnel are entitled to 3 sick days.

• Employer contribution of $100 to the Training and Education Fund in each year of the collective agreement.

* All wage increases are retroactive from November 1, 2003.

Breakaway Satellite renews three-year contract

Members at Toronto's Breakaway Satellite Opiate Addiction Service recently renewed their collective agreement. Contract highlights include:

• Guarantee that pay equity increases and increases provided by the Ministry of Health go directly to the bargaining unit.

• Guarantee bargaining unit work will not be contracted out.

• Lump sum payment of $500 per year.

• Professional Development allowance doubles to $500 per year.

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New vacation entitlement and wage gains for members at Brown Shoe

Members at Perth-based Brown Shoe Co. of Canada ratified a new collective agreement on October 24, 2003. Contact highlights include:

• Across-the-board wage increase of 30 cents per hour in each classification, effective October 2003.

• Wage increase of 30 cents per hour for Red-circled employees, effective October 2003.

• Vacation pay option. All employees have the option of requesting 2 per cent of their vacation entitlement on the last pay period prior to Christmas shutdown.

Union Negotiating Committee: Diane Davis, Bill Ballantyne, Tracy Majaury, Lisa Steward and Chief Negotiator, Luc Lacelle.

Monetary improvements for members at Burnbrae Farms

Members at Burnbrae Farms Mississauga ratified a new collective agreement on November 9, 2003. Contract highlights include:

• Across-the-board wage gains of 40 cents per hour in the first, second, and third year of the collective agreement. Increases apply to all wages and classifications. Retroactive pay will be paid by December 1, 2003.

• Increased wage rate for maintenance classification by 52 cents per hour.

• Premium of 50 cents per hour for all hours worked on deliveries for Shippers.

• Premium of $20 per month for each driver who carries a cell phone.

• Sick days bank of 40 hours with unused hours paid out by December 1, 2003.

• o Long Service Award for employees with more than 20 years of service providing one week of extra pay or time off in lieu once during the term of the collective agreement.

• Increased boot allowance to $185 per year.

• Improved bereavement leave.

• Premiums for non-drivers who are required to move trucks or make cube van deliveries.

Union Negotiating Committee: Tim Barbour; Glendene Gittens; John Larkin; Lee Lam; Union Representative, John DiFalco; and Central East Director, Jerry Clifford.

• Strong language securing jobs through job filling, security clauses and bumping and recall rights.

• Strong anti-harassment and anti-discrimination clauses.

• Language covering steward representation and grievance filing.

• Pay Equity increases. Employees assigned a higher-paid position for five or more working days receive 15 per cent above their regular rate of pay.

• Two weeks severance pay per year of service with no maximum for terminated employees.

• Across-the-board wage increase of 1 per cent for workers under the Schedule "A" grid and an additional increase of 1.5 per cent on the first anniversary of the agreement.

• Signing bonus of $75.

• Increased contributions to UFCW Benefits Program increase 20 cents to 62 cents per hour. Contributions increase an additional 5 cents to 67 cents per hour on the first anniversary of the agreement.

• Across-the-board wage gains up to 40 cents per hour over the life of the agreement.

• Increases in service-related pensions.

• Increase in the total sum for indemnity to an additional five weeks of coverage.

• New language covering compassionate leave to include grandparents-in-law, step-parents and step-children.

• Across-the-board wage gains of 20 cents per hour in the first year of the contract; susbsequent increase of 20 cents per hour in the second year of the contract.

• Christmas bonus of $125 payable in the first year of the contract.

• Increased payouts to Accidental Death and Dismemberment to $20,000.

• Increased monthly contributions of $130 per employee to the employees' dental and medical benefit plan in the first year of the contract; $135 per employee in the second year of the contract; and $140 in the third year of the contract.

• Wage increases of 3 per cent or CPI for 2003; whichever is greater in each year.

• Clause entitling workers with seven or more years of service to three weeks vacation at 6 per cent of their gross earnings.

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Members at Danone Inc. ratified a new three-year collective agreement on December 1, 2003. Contract highlights include:

• Across-the-board wage gains for part- and full-time employees in all classifications. Wage increase of 3 per cent per hour in the first year of the contract, retroactive to October 1, 2003. Subsequent increase of 3 per cent in the second and third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the Group Pension Plan to 60 cents per hour by the end of the contract.

• Premium of 70 cents per hour for employees working a day shift for all hours before 6:00 a.m.

• Reimbursement for unused sick hours from 100 to 150 per cent.

The contract covers all bargaining unit members including warehouse personnel; relief sales trainers; lead hands; sales-merchandisers and merchandisers.

Union Negotiating Committee: Mark Dickson, Patricia Dodd and Union Rep Paul Jokhu.

• New clauses covering job security and union representation in the grievance process.

• Guarantee employer will not hire any new employees until all laid-off workers are recalled and to recall laid-off workers based on seniority.

• Wage increases of 3 per cent in the first, second and third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the employer's health and welfare benefit.

• Additional floating holiday.

• Increased bereavement leave to five consecutive days to attend or plan a funeral or memorial of an immediate family member.

• Increased paid vacation for workers continuously employed with the company for more than 15 years of service and vacation pay equivalent to 10 per cent of total pay earned.

• Additional statutory holiday for part-time employees.

• Improved language covering job postings.

• Wage increases of 25 cents per hour in the first year of the contract; 30 cents per hour in the second year of the contract; and 35 cents per hour in the third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension Plan (CCWIPP) provide a benefit of $28.31 per month per full year of credited future service by the end of the contract.

• Across-the-board wage gains for workers under the Appendix "A" schedule in each year of the contract, effective April 7, 2003. Increases include:
  

  • 60 cents per hour for general help.
  • 64 cents per hour for Short Order Cooks.
  • 70 cents per hour for Cooks.

• Across-the-board wage gains for workers hired after April 7, 1999, in each year of the contract, effective April 7, 2003. Increases include:
  

  • 40 cents per hour for general help.
  • 65 cents per hour for Short Order Cooks.
  • 70 cents per hour for Cooks.

  
  

• Increased vision care benefit from $90 to $150.

• Increased Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefit from $11,000 to $15,000.

• Increased life insurance benefit from $11,000 to $15,000.

• New language covering violence and abuse in the workplace.

• New language for bereavement leave to cover same-sex partners.

• Hours of work: preference will be given to senior employees if there is an increase in hours.

Union Negotiating Committee: Berthe Jolicoeur, Lorraine Astley, and Union Rep Simon Baker.

• Wage increase of 30 cents per hour for students, Greens Keeper and Mechanics; subsequent increase of 25 cents per hour in the second year of the agreement.

• Lump sum payment of $200 for all seasonal and part-time employees on the payroll at date of ratification in the first year of the contract; subsequent lump sum bonus of $200 in the second and third year of the contract.

• Reimbursement up to 50 per cent to a maximum of $100 for the cost of safety equipment including work boots or shoes; eye goggles; and hard hats, safari hats and bump caps.

• Reimbursement up to 50 per cent to a maximum of $80 for the cost of rain suits.

• Improved bereavement leave.

• Increased contributions to the Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension Plan (CCWIPP).

• Across-the-board wage increases of 30 cents per hour in the first and second year of the contract; subsequent increase of 40 cents per hour in the third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the optical plan to $200. Employees are eligible for reimbursement in any two-year period.

• Increased contributions to the dental care plan in the second and third year of the contract.

• Increase in safety boot allowanceto $125 per calendar year.

• Increased contributions to the UFCW Training and Education Fund.

• Across-the-board wage gains of 3 per cent effective date of ratification. Subsequent wage gains include an increase of 3 per cent in the second and third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the vision care plan.

• New clause covering paid vacation for workers with more than 24 years of service. Senior employees are now entitled to 30 working days at their current rate of pay.

• Wage gains for all employees under the Appendix "A" Schedule. Wages increase 50 cents per hour for workers at the top rate.

• Increase in time off for an employee whose wife has given birth to a child. Eligible employees are now entitled to three days leave, up from one days' leave.

• New letter of agreement concerning sick days. Some senior part-time employees are now entitled to three sick days per year over the life of the agreement.

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• Across-the-board wage gains of 25 cents per hour. Subsequent wage gains include an increase of 25 cents per hour in the second and third year of the contract.

• Increased contributions to the United Food and Commercial Workers Trusteed Dental Plan Ontario.

• Signing bonus of $100.

• Across-the-board wage gains for all full-time employees under the Appendix “A” schedule of 10 cents per hour in each year of the collective agreement.

• Across-the-board wage gains for all part-time employees under the Appendix “D” schedule of 10 cents per hour in each year of the collective agreement.

• Increased contributions to the pension plan.

• Changes to language covering bereavement.

• New classification: Part-time Meat Clerk.

• New letter of agreement covering harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace.

Union Negotiating Committee: Michele Ellis, Sharon Haines and Union Rep Marilyn Lang.

• Retroactive wage gains of 30 cents per hour for part-time employees, subsequent increases in the first year of the contract will match the progression rate.

• Increase of 30 cents per hour for part-time employees at the top rate; subsequent increases to the top rate include an additional 30 cents per hour in the second and third year of the contract.

• Increase of 55 cents per hour for full-time workers at the top rate; subsequent increases include an additional 30 cents per hour in the second and third year of the contract.

• Premium of 20 cents per hour for workers who perform cash office duties.

• New classification: Part-time Meat Cutter.

• New clause ensuring harassment-free workplace.

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