OctOber 2012

LiUNA and a majority of the other Construction Building Trades Unions have had major issues with the Carpenters’ Union raiding their Collective Agreements, signing companies that do work traditionally in the jurisdiction of other Unions, and cutting their members’ wages to break into other Unions’ jurisdictions.

In LiUNA Local 1059’s geographic jurisdiction, the Carpenters’ promoted an illegal concrete forming agreement in the ICI sector stipulating wage rates at almost ½ the amounts that the Labourers’ and Carpenters’ standard ICI Agreements stipulate. The Ontario Labour Relations Board in 2010 found it illegal.

They have cut their ICI wage package and lengthened their overtime to 50 hours per week on some ICI jobsites. Employers that have Bridge Agreements with Local 1059 like EllisDon have been approached by the Carpenters’ offering a bridge agreement at whatever rates the Employer wants, even though Local 1059 holds the jurisdiction for all work on bridges.

The Carpenters’ Union in the last couple of months has been approaching our members on jobsites and offering them memberships. This while they have unemployed members and no work to send them to.

This is just a low down way to get members to sign a Carpenters’ Application for membership document so the Carpenters’ can use that document to displace a Local 1059’s Collective Agreement and require our members to join the Carpenters’.

The Carpenters’ Union is not really interested in having our members join, only in stealing the Collective Agreements and our work.

The Carpenters’ Union is on an aggressive campaign to amalgamate their Local Unions and remove all democracy from their members.

1 Carpenters’ members cannot elect their Business Manager and Representatives.

2 Carpenters’ members cannot vote on their Collective Agreements.

3 Carpenters’ members do not decide or vote on how or where their dues are spent.

The Carpenters’ ICI Collective Agreement requires a deduction of $3.11 per hour Union dues which equals on a 40 hour week $124.40, and over a year almost $6,468.80, from a Carpenters’ wage package of $45.76 per hour.

carpenters’ LOcaL 1946 – LOndOn

Union GeneRAl ContRACtoRs

the Carpenters’ Union has

only two active london-based

general contractors left,

ellisDon and McKay Cocker,

while local 1059 has over

150 active employers under

agreements covering many

sectors of work.

local 1059 contractors perform

almost all the concrete forming,

site servicing, masonry, fencing,

asphalt, curb, gutter and

sidewalk, asbestos removal

and demolition for all the non-

union general contractors in the

london area.

speciaL MEMBERs’ EDITION

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“seCtion 5.06 RetiReMent

(a) Definition

To be considered retired, a Participant or former Participant must withdraw and refrain from any further work in Covered Employment, and from any work within the geographical jurisdiction of the Union for wages or profit of the type included in an Agreement at the time of his retirement.

For Employees as defined in Section 1.12(b), (c) and (d), to be considered retired, the Participant or former Participant must withdraw and refrain from any further work in Covered Employment,

and from any work for any Employer in respect of similar work, employment or services prior to application by the individual for benefits under the Plan.”

LabOurers’ pensiOn FundA member of local 1059 that joins

the Carpenters’ Union and works

under their Collective Agreements,

that displaced a labourers’ collective

agreement, risks not receiving a

pension from the labourers’ Pension

Fund while he is employed under such

Carpenters’ Union Agreement. it makes

no difference whether membership in

local 1059 continues or not.

Dave Garcia was warned in 2010 that if he joined the Carpenters’ Union he would lose his membership in Local 1059. Not only did he join the Carpenters’, he has been a puppet poster boy for the Carpenters’ Union to provide false and misleading information to our members. The Carpenters’ Union has made a YouTube video to make personal, immature and false allegations against Local 1059 and our Executive Board members. Carpenters’ Local 1946 wants to tell us how to run our Local Union. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY6QHIb2JWk&sns=em This would be one reason Carpenters’ members pay the highest dues in Ontario.

The members of the Carpenters’ Union also paid for a flyer which was distributed on some of the Local 1059 jobsites highlighting Garcia’s whining about losing the benefits of Local 1059 membership.

In addition, the Ontario Labour Relations Board upheld Local 1059’s right to expel Garcia from membership; the LiUNA

International Appellant Officer has also upheld that decision https://www.liunalocal1059.com/membership/Register/Garcia_Carpenters_Local_1946.aspx

The Carpenters’ members have paid for and represented Garcia at his Local 1059 trial board, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, a superior Court complaint and Garcia’s appeal to the LiUNA Appellate Officer.

Garcia complains that he can’t have Local 1059’s benefits which are obviously vastly superior to the Carpenters’ benefit plan (why else would he want them?) and he wants continued membership in Local 1059. He is obviously concerned that the Carpenters’ Union’s spike in work is temporary and he wants to keep his option open of coming back to work under Local 1059 agreements. He previously worked 11 years without layoff under Local 1059 collective agreements.

daVe Garcia – Ex-MEMBER

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Liuna, LOcaL 1059 beneFit trust FundA local 1059 member that joins the

Carpenters’ Union will lose his or her

membership in local 1059 and our benefits.

To receive benefits under the Local 1059 Benefit plan, you must be a member of Local 1059. Joining the Carpenters’ Union will result in you losing your benefits eligibility and also access to your accumulated dollar bank in the Local 1059 Plan for future benefits.

Carpenters’ members currently pay $0.56 per hour from their ICI wage package for training, an amount that surely will be raised in their new ICI agreement to pay for such an extravagant facility.

Kevin Hoy, a spokesperson for the Carpenters’ Union told the Daily Commercial News in March, 2012, that the new facility would have “close to 1000 a year” new trainees.

The Carpenters’ Union did not use their unemployed members to form and pour the concrete curbs, gutters and sidewalks on their new facility.

This suggests the Carpenters’ Union must be planning on flooding their Local with new apprentices or they don’t think their current members have the skills now needed by employers.

Maybe the building is really a statement to try and justify where all the training monies and dues taken from their members’ wage package is going.

carpenters’ new LOndOn traininG centre and OFFice

Without any vote or approval by its members, Carpenters’ Union Local 1946 is building an 8 million dollar facility in London for its 500 members.

Let’s cOmpare

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ColleCtive AGReeMents – WoRKinG DUes

loCAl 1059 CARPenteRs’ loCAl 1946

ICI Labourers $31.64/hour – overtime, double after 40 hours

ICI 80 to 100% of $33.09/hour – overtime, from 40 to 50 hours per week

EPsCA $30.81/hour EPsCA $34.40/hour

ICI Masonry $32.59/hour No agreements

Residential Formwork $30.25/hour No agreements

Gas pipeline $30.97/hour No agreements

Utility work $29.19/hour No agreements

sewer, Watermain $30.80/hour No agreements

Asphalt Paving $30.50/hour No agreements

Bridge Building $30.50/hour No agreements

Wind Power/solar $31.00/hour No agreements

Demolition $31.92/hour No agreements

Precast $31.90/hour No agreements

Cutting and Coring $37.59/hour No agreements

Railroad $30.65/hour No agreements

Curb, Gutter, sidewalk $30.80/hour No agreements

Union WoRKinG DUes

loCAl 1059 CARPenteRs’ loCAl 1946

ICI Labourers ICI Masonry $0.98/hour

$2.91/hour in addition, employer pays $0.20/hour to Union as contribution, so that members cannot see it on their pay stubs. Total dues from members wage package $3.11

EPsCA $0.94/hour EPsCA $2.66/hour

Demolition $0.96/hour No agreements

Utility $0.91/hour No agreements

sewer/Watermain $0.95/hour No agreements

Curb, Gutter, sidewalk $0.95/hour No agreements

Asphalt $0.95/hour No agreements

Bridges $0.95/hour No agreements

Wind/solar $0.97/hour No agreements

Gas pipeline $1.24/hour No agreements

Residential Formwork $0.94/hour No agreements

Precast $0.99/hour No agreements

Cutting and Coring $1.10/hour No agreements

Railroad $0.87/hour No agreements

BeneFit PlAn

loCAl 1059 CARPenteRs’ loCAl 1946

No cap of dollar bank for benefitsCap of dollar bank of 2 years for benefits• No short-term or long-term disability coverage• No legal fee reimbursement

tRAininG

loCAl 1059 CARPenteRs’ loCAl 1946

$0.25/hour – Deduction from wage package $0.56/hour – Deduction from wage package

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HaYman cOnstructiOn

Hayman Construction inc. is a General Contractor that has been in business since 1872. it had an agreement with the Carpenters’ Union since the early 1900s. it is one of the last companies in ontario that has been in operation that long.

In 2010, 15 members of the Carpenters’ Union employed by Hayman voted to decertify the Carpenters’ Union as their bargaining agent and then voted overwhelmingly to be represented by Local 1059.

The carpenters employed by Hayman were struggling to remain employed because the companies the Carpenters’ Union forced Hayman to subcontract to resulted in Hayman losing work as they were not competitive. specifically, the Carpenters’ Union drywall, acoustic ceilings, glazing, resilient flooring, bathroom partitions and fixtures subcontractors were not competitive. Every general contractor, without a collective agreement with the Carpenters’ Union, was able to price jobs lower than Hayman.

Hayman employees, 1936 employed doing construction at Labatt’s Plant in London.

Since 1872

LarrY KinG

“i was a member of Carpenters’ local 1946 for 5 years.

In 2010, myself and 14 other members of the Carpenters’ Union, employed directly by Hayman, voted to decertify the Carpenters’ Union as our representative.

We then voted to join LiUNA Local 1059. This has provided new work for the 14 previous members of the Carpenters’ Union.

We have mandatory recall rights, job security, higher wages, less Union dues, a better benefit plan and more job opportunities being only with the Labourers’ Union.

Labourers’ Local 1059 understands our concerns, supports us on jobsite safety and are always there when we call. Labourers’ Local 1059 is a real Union concerned about its members”.

lABoUReRs’ loCAl 105956 Firestone Blvd.London, OntarioN5W 5L4

Phone: 519-455-8083Fax: 519-455-0712www.liunalocal1059.com