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foreman's rate of pay shall increase to three dollars ($3.00) effective May
1, 2013 and three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) effective May 1, 2014,
above the contracted cement mason journeyman's rate.
ARTICLE 16 - JURISDICTION
16.01 The operation of conveyor equipment, the operation and control of
all types of vacuum mat used in the drying of cement floors in preparing
same for finish, the operation of power driven floats and trowelling
machines is the work of the cement masons. The finishing or washing of
all concrete construction including silos, application of concrete sealers,
patterned concrete whether done by stamping or other means of
impression, installation of fillers or sealants to floor joints and sitework
including walkways, roadways and ramps, elevators and smoke stacks,
using any colour pigment when mixed with cement in any other form -
mosaic and nail coat whether done by brush, broom, trowel, float or any
other process including the operation of machines for scoring floors, saw
cutting, or for any other purposes used in connection with the cement
mason’s trade. The rodding or screeding and tamping of all concrete
floors and the finishing of all top materials, sills, coping, steps, stairs
and risers shall be the work of the cement masons; It is agreed that where
the Union has been notified and is unable to supply cement masons, the
Employer may do the work with his own forces. This shall apply to rough
screeding in areas up to fifteen hundred (1,500) square feet. All
preparatory work on concrete construction to be finished or rubbed, such
as construction of bulkheads, cutting of nails, wires, wall ties, etc.,
patching, brushing, chipping and bush hammering, rubbing or grinding
if done by machine, or carborundum stone of all concrete construction.
All glass set in concrete. The installation of tiles and wire mesh, all tile
cast into concrete monolithically. The installation of metal or synthetic
fibres. The installing of concrete fibres and plasticizer into concrete mix
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