Unifor has voted in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement with both SecurTek and Directwest.
On Monday the voting ended with a new three-year deal in place.
The expired agreement saw employees receive two years of zeros.
Securtek’s new agreement includes:
- Effective March 20, 2019, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 1.00%
- Effective March 16, 2020, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 2.00%
- Effective March 15, 2021, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 2.00%
- To acknowledge employees experienced hardship during the seventeen-day labour disruption, active full-time employees will receive four days pay and part-time employees will receive a pro-rated number of days pay, based on hours worked in the four weeks preceding the labour disruption.
- SecurTek will provide a Health Spending Account for each employee. All permanent, part-time and temporary replacement employees will have a three-month waiting period before they are eligible. Benefits will be pro-rated on eligible months.
- SecurTek will contribute $350.00 to each employees’ Health Spending Account, effective March 16, 2020.
- SecurTek shall contribute $350.00 to each employees’ Health Spending Account, effective March 15, 2021.
Directwest’s new agreement includes:
- Effective March 20, 2019, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 1.00%
- Effective March 15, 2020, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 2.00%
- Effective March 14, 2021, all weekly rates of pay shall be increased by 2.00%
- To acknowledge employees experienced hardship during the seventeen day labour disruption, active full-time employees will receive four (4) days pay.
- The Company shall make an additional one percent (1%) contribution of each employee’s base salary to the Health Spending Account, effective January 1, 2020. The cost will be offset by savings realized from Health Plan Premiums.
- The Company shall make an additional one percent (1%) contribution of each employee’s base salary to the Health Spending Account (Appendix F) effective January 1, 2021. The cost will be offset by savings realized from Health Plan Premiums.
The new deals with both SecurTek and Directwest expire at the end of March 2022.
