Great Pay!
Pay rates for Sask UBC members are among North America's best, and they're further sweetened by lots of overtime, and by generous Living Out Allowances (LOAs).
These days, union management estimates that members can expect to work at least 2,000 hours a year (200 above 'normal'), and sometimes plenty more. We have many members who, by mid-June 2011, had grossed as much as $80,000 since January 1!
Our current contact provides for the following pay grids for Journeymen Carpenters and/or Scaffolders:
| Industrial Projects | |
| Base: | 35.46 |
| Stat Holidays: | 1.60 |
| Vacation Pay: | 2.22 |
| Health & Welfare: | 1.40 |
| Pension: | 5.90 |
| Apprentice & Training: | .80 |
| Total Package: | 47.38 |
| Commercial Projects | |
| Base: | 27.32 |
| Stat holiday: | 1.23 |
| Vacation pay: | 1.71 |
| Health & Welfare: | .90 |
| Pension: | 3.52 |
| Apprentice & training: | .30 |
| Total Package: | 34.98 |
Some of our industrial projects involve worksite camps, where members stay and eat (usually very well!) free of charge. Other projects provide LOAs of $120 a day if the work is more than 100 kilometres from the dispatch point, and travel allowances if the work is closer.
We have two basic shifts: 4X10 and 5X8. On 4X10s, Fridays are paid at 1.5X overtime, Saturdays and Sundays at 2X. On 5X8s, the first 2 hours after 8 are paid at 1.5X, and further hours are 2X. Weekends are 2X.
Our pension plan works on an hours-earned basis on industrial projects: OT hours result in 1.5X or 2X pension contributions! So plenty of overtime not only helps the paycheque today, but fattens tomorrow's as well.
Come to where the money's flowing fast in the construction sector!
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