Goldcorp Canada (Porcupine Gold Mines)

Timmins, Ont. (280 miners, operators, technicians, drivers) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers Intl. Union (USW), Local 7580

Renewal agreement: Effective Oct. 31, 2017, to Oct. 30, 2020. Signed on Oct. 14, 2017.
Shift premium: $0.85 per hour for all scheduled afternoon, graveyard shifts; $1.75 per hour on Sunday. $0.85 per hour for last 2.5 hours of day shift, $0.85 per hour for night shift; $1.75 per hour on Sunday. $0.85 per hour for regularly scheduled shifts commencing at or after 2 p.m. $1.75 per hour for each hour worked on scheduled shift that commences on Sunday. $2 per hour for each hour worked for employees who are training. $2 per hour per trade, for tradesperson who is certified in more than 1 recognized trade.
Paid holidays: 11 days, plus 3 personal days. 
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks or 4% after 1 year, 3 weeks or 6% after 4 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 10 years, 4 weeks or 9% after 15 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 18 years, 5 weeks or 11% after 25 years, 5 weeks or 13% after 28 years. Vacation may be banked and may only be taken immediately prior to retirement.
Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after regularly scheduled hours. 
Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums.
Dental: 100% coverage for basic; 50% coverage for prosthetic appliances, crown and bridge procedures. 50% coverage for orthodontic services, lifetime maximum $3,250 per family member. 
Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums for 100% reimbursement, maximum $375 every 2 years. 
Weekly indemnity: Employer pays 100% of premiums for $700 per week (previously $675 per week) on 1-1-3-26 plan, maximum 26 weeks.
LTD: Employer pays 100% of premiums for $2,400 per month, less CPP payments.
AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $105,000 (previously $100,000).
Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $105,000 (previously $100,000).
Bereavement leave: 40 hours for death of spouse, child, mother, father. 24 hours for death in other family adopted child, stepchild, adoptive parent’s stepmother, stepfather, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter- in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparents, grandparents-in-law, grandchildren. In event of winter death, employee will be permitted 1 additional day to attend spring internment.
Seniority – recall rights: 36 months. 
Call-in pay: 4 hours’ work, or at employer’s option, 4 hours’ pay at basic hourly rate without being required to work full period.
Probationary period: 50 shifts worked. 
Severance: 80 hours’ pay at basic hourly rate for each year of service, maximum 2,080 hours.
Safety shoes: $100 per year (previously $75 per year) for safety boots. 
Tool allowance: $400 per year recognized tradespersons.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 4% increase):
Journeyperson worker health and safety representative: $38.67 rising 2 steps to $40.23
Miner 1/support miner 1/uncertified joumeyperson/apprentice 1/hoist operator/shovel operator/crushing conv. maintainer/ground control: $37.25 rising 2 steps to $38.76
Miner 2/support miner 2/apprentice 2/mill operator 1/pit driller/tire technician: $34.89 rising 2 steps to $36.30
Cagetender/mill operator 2/pit equipment operator/tractor trailer operator: $34 rising 2 steps to $35.37
Miner 3/apprentice 3/heavy-equip. op./heavy-duty truck driver/serviceperson: $33.05 rising 2 steps to $34.38
Apprentice 4/mill operator 3: $31.21 rising 2 steps to $32.47
Miner 4/truck driver: $30.32 rising 2 steps to $31 .55
Labourer: $29.41 rising 2 steps to $30.60
Editor’s notes: Bargaining-unit work: If supervisor is found to be performing bargaining-unit work, employer will pay $100 to USW Humanity Fund. Prescription safety glasses: Employer will pay 100% of cost of prescription safety glasses and replacement lenses, maximum $325, once per 12-month period for each employee.
 

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