Common use of NEW METHODS Clause in Contracts

NEW METHODS. It is agreed that should the Employer intend to ini­ tiate a forseeable major change in method of operation which is not presently in the Industry within the area of operation covered by the affected Unions that would result in a substantial change in the content of any job presently covered by this Agreement, he shall give sixty (60) days’ notice of the nature of such new method of operation to the affected Union, following which, the matter of job classifications, wages, and/or other condi­ tions and/or the disposition of displaced Employees shall then become a matter of negotiation with said affected Unions for an additional period of sixty (60) days. If, at the end of the aforementioned total period of one hundred and twenty (120) days no agreement has been reached, the issues remaining in dispute shall be submitted to an impartial arbitrator for decision. The findings and decision of the impartial arbitrator shall be final and binding on both parties and the costs of the impartial arbitrator shall be borne equally by both parties. Pending agreement by the parties during the above mentioned one hundred and twenty (120) day period, or a decision by the impartial arbitrator, no change of operation as above defined and set forth shall be placed into effect.