The Section represents Toronto based Employers in the negotiation
and administration
of six civil trade collective agreements. All six agreements are
province-wide in nature and cover Industrial, Commercial and Institutional
(I.C.I.) construction and are of three years duration with a common
expiry date with the next anniversary being April 30th, 2004.
The Section receives approximately 150 formal
grievances per year with a large majority of those settled at first
step grievance meetings in the Section's offices
conducted by the staff together with the affected employer. Matters
not resolved in the Section's offices are often
referred to the Ontario Labour Relations Board where the staff works
with the employers and officers of the Board in mediation meetings
and finally in referrals to binding determination before panels
of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Unresolved cases referred
for decision are usually limited to two or three per year.
In addition to collective bargaining and grievance resolution the
Section appoints employer trustees to twelve (12)
jointly trusteed multi-employer benefit plans
providing benefits to workers including retirement pensions, life
insurance, dental and drug insurance, Long Term Disability payments
and training and apprenticeship programmes. All trustees are involved
in educational programmes provided by the International Foundation
of Employee Benefit Plans.
Section staff also contributes their services
to a broad range of other associations, councils and boards of like
purposes to the Section at the municipal, provincial,
national and international level. All of those organizations have
some component related to construction labour relations or employee
pension and benefit design and administration.
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