Local 285 high-rise residential sheet metal workers need clear rules, transparency, and protection around production bonuses and incentive pay.

Right now, high-rise workers are being offered bonuses or incentives that operate like piecework, based on suites completed, floors completed, production targets, or how fast the work gets done. But unlike low-rise, high-rise does not have a proper negotiated incentive schedule, minimum rate, or clear rules protecting the workers doing the production.

That leaves too much control in the hands of companies, supervisors, or lead workers. Rates can be unclear, payouts can be changed, and workers often do not know the full value of the work or how the money is divided. In some cases, workers are forced to produce faster, only to have the rate because they proved the work could be done quicker.

This petition is not asking for bonuses to be banned. It is asking for incentive pay to be protected. If incentive pay already exists in low-rise, high-rise workers deserve the same level of fairness, transparency, and negotiated standards.

We are asking Local 285 and SMART Canada to create clear written rules for high-rise incentive pay, protect workers from unfair rate cuts, make sure bonuses are paid properly, stop companies from using incentives to avoid overtime, and protect members from retaliation for speaking up.

This is not about hurting Local 285 contractors or putting work at risk. It is about making sure high-rise workers are treated fairly and not left carrying the risk while companies collect the reward.

Members can sign without displaying their name publicly. No one is being asked to name companies, job sites, supervisors, or individual workers.

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