You’re Invited!
All Optimum Employees working as Sheet Metal workers are invited to attend SMART Local 47 Information session regarding certification and process
DATE: Friday, January 26th 2024
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: 765 Greens Creek Dr. Ottawa On, K1J 1K6
Protect Your Family’s Future
Develop your skills and advance your career with FREE training
*** Day School Training offered here at our state of the art facility
*** Safety Training offered here at our facility – Paid by Employer
*** No Holds on School and Advancement
*** Night School Courses for Apprentices
*** Welding and Gas fitter courses for members
If sheet metal is your chosen career, you deserve the best possible wages and benefits. Are you receiving all that you deserve?
We represent the MEMBER, not the Contractor.
SMART Local 47 Wages and Benefits
Health Insurance, Prescription Drug Plan, $2,000 Dental Coverage Per Family Member Annually, Vision Care, Members Assistance Program, Disability Coverage, Massage Therapy, $50,000 Life Insurance, Retiree Subsidy and Extended Health Care Benefits that DO NOT Change, even if you change employers!
Our Benefits don’t come off your hourly wage, they are in addition to what you make on the check!
*** Residential Sector ***
Our Residential Sector Apprentices start out at $23.80/HR plus vacation pay (2.38$) with an additional $7.87 in benefits for a total wage package of $34.05/HR.
Apprentices receive significant increases as they progress through our program.
Our Residential Sector Journeymen make $48.80/HR on the check plus vacation pay (4.88$) with an additional $18.34 in benefits for a total wage package of $72.02/HR.
*** ICI Sector ***
Our ICI Sector Apprentices start out at $22.24/HR plus vacation pay (2.22$) with an additional $9.21 in benefits for a total wage package of $33.67/HR.
Apprentices receive significant increases as they progress through our program.
Our ICI Sector Journeymen make $44.74/HR on the check plus vacation pay (4.77$) with an additional $19.68 in benefits for a total wage package of $72.19/HR.
We Represent workers in both the ICI and Residential Sheet Metal Sectors:
ICI Sector:
- 36 Hour Work Week
- Overtime Paid at DOUBLE TIME
- Contractor Supplies Power Tools
Residential Sector:
- 36 Hour Work Week
- Overtime Paid at TIME AND A HALF
- Optional voluntary 40 Hour Work Week
- Contractor Supplies Power Tools
Explanation of Certification Process
Any employee at Optimum Mechanical working as a sheet metal worker has an opportunity, with the expiry of the Collective Agreement between CLAC and Optimum, to choose to be represented by another Union.
Sheet Metal Workers Local 47 has been approached by employees of Optimum who are unhappy with the representation they are receiving from CLAC.
Outlined below is the process involved with the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
To begin the process, employees will sign membership cards with Sheet Metal Workers Local 47 in support of our Application to replace CLAC as the representative of employees. Those membership cards are confidential, and will be filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board. No-one who signs a card will have that fact disclosed to the Employer, to CLAC or to any of their fellow employees.
Once Sheet Metal Workers Local 47 has signed membership cards for at least 40 % of the sheet metal employees of the Employer, Local 47 will make an Application for Certification to the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
Once that Application is filed, the Labour Relations Board will order that a vote of all sheet metal employees of Optimum be taken.
That vote will occur five (5) days (excluding weekends) after the Application for Certification is filed.
All sheet metal Employees will be given a choice of whether they wish to continue to be represented by CLAC, or represented by Sheet Metal Local 47.
If a majority of those casting a ballot in the representation vote choose to be represented by Sheet Metal Local 47, Local 47 will be certified by the Ontario Labour Relations Board as the representative of employees.
As a result of the fact that Local 47 negotiates a provincial collective agreement for the industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) sector of the construction industry, and an Ottawa area residential sector collective agreement, any employers who are certified are bound immediately to those agreements.
Put another way, if employees of Optimum vote to be represented by Sheet Metal Local 47, the terms of the ICI Sheet Metal Agreement, and the Ottawa High Rise Residential Agreement will apply immediately.
For more information please fill out the form below and a representative will reach out to you.