Last month, Labour Relations Alberta updated their collectrive bargaining agreement database, with some recently ratified collective agreements.
One such agreement was between SIL Industrial Minerals and the warehouse and workers they employ.
Based in Edmonton, SIL Industrial is the largest fracking sand and industrial sand producer in Canada.
The company employs various workers, including plant operators, loader operators, welders, electricians, truck operators, production coordinators, millwrights, quality control and technicians, as well as those who work in health and safety, scale and dispatch, and plant maintenance.
This new contract affects about 100 workers, who are unionized through The Unisil Association.
These workers and the company settled the new 3-year contract at the end of March, and it will expire at the end of 2026. Their previous contract ended at the end of 2023.
Workers will receive 3 wage increases during the life of the new contract.
| 1 January 2024 | 8.15% |
| 1 January 2025 | 1.99% |
| 1 January 2026 | 2.02% |
Keep in mind that the first raise is based on 2022’s wages. In the previous contract, the parties had agreed to one wage increase, with a reopener in November 2022 for the final year. I was unable to find the results of that reopener.
Here are a few other things I noticed that had changed between the two contracts.
