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Wages (Prairie Region)

"Certificates" shall mean a CGSB Certificate in any of the following:

Aircraft Structures
Other Junior (Tech. I)
Magnetic Particle (Tech II - M.P.)
Liquid Penetrant (Tech II - L.P.)
CWB Certification (Tech II)

 
Hourly Rate Effective
May 1/06 May 1/07 May 1/08
 
Level II Technician
(Technician II - Radiography, Ultrasonics or Eddy Current)
 - plus 2 Certificates $32.81 $34.71 $36.65
 - less than 2 Certificates   30.73   32.61   34.56
 
Level I Technician
(Technician I - Radiography, Ultrasonics or Eddy Current)
 - plus 1 Certificate   25.85   27.82   29.96
 - less than 1 Certificate   24.31   26.15   28.15
CEDO Operator   20.14   21.90   23.89
 
Trainee   15.95   17.02   18.27

 


Unchargeable Time
– eighty percent (80%) of the rate to which the employee would otherwise be entitled. 

Within each classification (i.e. Level II, Level I, Trainee) when the Employer is laying off from a project, he will not lay off employees for the reason that they are overqualified. 

Certified Exposure Device Operators
shall be employed at a ratio of not more than one Certified Exposure Device Operator for each technician in the bargaining unit. In no event shall a CEDO be permitted to perform radiography without supervision of either a Tech I or Tech II at the work location unless he is being paid at the Level I rate while doing the work. 

MPI
and LPI Level II to be paid at least equivalent of Level I with no certificates. 

Crawler Technicians
to be paid equivalent of Level I with no certificates or his classification, whichever is higher. 

Scanner Operators
on mechanized ultrasonic crews are to be paid equivalent to a Qualified Operator rate.

"Crawler Technician" is defined as a person who is operating and performing full maintenance on a crawler.

Premium for Record Keeping

On each project where an employee is assigned the responsibility of directing a crew of six (6) employees or more and keeping records of their hours of work he shall be paid a premium of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour over his regular rate. 

Where an employee in a shop has been designated responsibility for making work assignments to other employees he shall be paid a premium of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour over his regular rate. 

On a project where an employee is assigned the responsibility for directing a crew and keeping records for same, he shall be paid a premium of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour over his regular rate. This shall not be construed to mean a single technician working with a trainee(s). 

The foregoing is subject to the following:

(a) Supervisors are to be appointed by management;

(b) No minimum or maximum number of technicians are required on a job site to necessitate the appointment;

(c) "Level II technicians" are responsible for technical performance on a project. The responsibility to interpret film for other technicians on a site does not necessarily mean that a supervisor's rate applies.

Isolation Pay

Hourly rates of wages for employees covered by this Agreement when employed north of 60° latitude shall be one dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75) per hour higher than those provided in Article X.

 

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