5.01      Wage Rates
Wages shall be paid every second Thursday at not less than the following rates:

Classifications

                            Effective   Effective
                            June 1/08   June 1/09
Group 1 - Ticketed and non-ticketed trades.
Engineer                      27.83       28.94
Electrician                 
Carpenter                   
Millwright                  
Machinist                   
Changeover/Mechanic         
Quality Control             

Ticket Premiums: Group 1 trades holding two or more specified tickets will receive a premium of fifty cents per hour for the second and for each additional specified ticket. (See Letter of Understanding No. 4, re: Trade Tickets)

                            Effective   Effective
                            June 1/08   June 1/09
Group 2
Brewer                        26.41       27.20
Stockperson                 
Lab Technician                  
Cellarman                   
Shipper/Fork Lift Op.                
Cleanup Person              
Kegger                      
Packaging Machine Operator  

Group 3
General Labour                23.12       23.82

Group 4
Casual Help                   19.16       19.73

Group 5
General Labour                13.13       13.53
For 1st 60 days worked

*The packaging machine operator rate was adjusted after ratification pursuant to an agreement between the Company and the Union that these employees would assume a greater responsibility for equipment and product quality.

5.02      Cost of Living Bonus

1. A triggered C.O.L.A. will be implemented if the inflation rate exceeds 6% during each year that this contract is in effect. For each .4 increase in the Consumer Price Index for Canada (1992 =100) beyond the 6% figure, wages will be increased by $0.01.
   
   
2. There will be one C.O.L.A. adjustment date, being the first full calendar week following the C.P.I. issued on or about June 1, 2009.
   
   
3. C.O.L.A. adjustments shall be considered as an “add-on” on all hours worked only and shall not be deemed part of the employee’s standard hourly wage rate for the purpose of calculation of overtime, pension contribution, nor any other benefits provided for in this Agreement.

5.03      First Aid Attendant
There shall be designated First Aid Attendants who shall receive a premium for all hours worked in this capacity based on the level of Ticket held in accordance with the following schedule:

Level 1       $0.50 per hour
Level 2       $0.75 per hour
Level 3       $1.00 per hour

In the event the regular attendants are sick, on vacation, etc., the next senior employee holding a valid ticket shall be used and paid the premium rate.

Employees who are required to obtain, maintain, or upgrade industrial first aid tickets shall be compensated at his/her straight time hourly rate for all hours lost (not to exceed eight hours per day), while attending the Company-approved course.

It is agreed that the employee holding the highest level of ticket on each shift shall be the designated attendant for that shift.

5.04      Rate Protection
The present higher wages of any employee shall not be reduced. For clarity, it is understood and agreed that when any employee in a lower category is required to do any part of the work embodied in higher categories listed in this Article, he/she shall be paid the wage rate for such higher category as per Article 3.08.

If an employee, having been classified in a higher category is required at any time to perform work embodied in a classification in a lower category, his/her own rate of pay shall not be reduced from that established in the higher category.

For the purpose of determining the rate for vacation pay, an employee will be paid at the higher classification only if he/she has worked six hundred hours at that higher classification in the previous calendar year.

5.05      Premiums

Afternoon shift     $0.75 per hour
Graveyard Shift     $1.30 per hour
Lead Hand           $1.00 per hour

COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE

5.06      Job Change/Creation
Before the labour of employees is increased by changes in operation, manufacturing methods or speed up of equipment or new jobs are created as deemed necessary or advisable by the Company, a classification and a rate for such jobs will be established as agreed upon between the Union and the Company.

In the event the parties fail to agree on a rate, a rate shall be set by the Company, or the Company will give consideration to providing additional help if a material increase in the workload has resulted. After a trial period of thirty days, the Union may enter a request for a new rate which, if not settled to the satisfaction of the Union, may be settled through the Grievance Procedure. The rate so established shall be retroactive to the original date of change.

Employees whose position has been eliminated due to lack of work, technological changes or method of production changes, or the reduction of or closing of a department, and where that employee(s) will no longer be required to perform work in that classification, shall return to their former department and displace the junior employee in that department, providing they are willing and able to perform the work. If the operating procedures have changed as a result of HAACP and the employee has the requisite skill set, but he or she has not signed the Standard Operating Procedure for his or her old position, he or she will be given the opportunity to be trained on SOPs in order to displace the junior employee. The person affected displaces the junior person in the plant as per Article 3.06 providing he/she can do the work as assigned. Employees affected are to receive the assigned job rate after 90 working days.