RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 2.1 The Company acknowledges that the Employees in this unit described above had selected the Union as their exclusive collective bargaining unit, and recognizes the Union as such for all Employees in the said unit. 2.2 It is agreed that all Union members, as of the signing of this Agreement, shall maintain their Union membership in good standing for the duration of the contract as a condition of employment. 2.3 All Employees hired on and after the signing of this Agreement shall, as a condition of employment, become Union members within the first thirty (30) days worked for the Company, maintaining such membership in good standing for the duration of the Agreement. When an Employee is transferred or promoted out of the bargaining unit and later returns, he shall forthwith take out membership in the Union and remain a member in good standing during the life of this Agreement. 2.4 The Company agrees to the extent authorized in writing by each Employee, but not otherwise, to deduct initiation fees and to deduct from the first pay cheque of each month, the current month’s dues of any Employee covered by this Agreement, and to remit such monies so deducted to the Financial Secretary of the Local Union, not later than the tenth day following the date upon which such monies were deducted. Upon termination of employment of any Employee, his dues deduction authorization form shall be returned to the union within four (4) working days. 2.5 The Company will not be required to dismiss or suspend Employees from employment who have been expelled or suspended by the Union, unless such expulsion or suspension by the Union was for just cause. A dispute will be subject to the Grievance Procedure and Arbitration, if necessary. 2.6 The Company agrees that there will be no discrimination, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced by the Company or any of its representatives with respect to any Employee because of his membership in, or connection with the Union, and that membership in the Union, by Employees who are eligible to join, will not be discouraged. 2.7 The Union agrees that there be no intimidation, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced upon Employees of the Company by any of its members or representatives, and that there will be no solicitation for membership, collection of dues, or any other Union activity on the premises of the Company. 2.8 No Employee will be laid off as a result of the Company contracting out, except where the work cannot be performed by the Employees.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 2.1 The Company acknowledges that the Employees in this unit described above had selected the Union as their exclusive collective bargaining unit, and recognizes the Union as such for all Employees in the said unit.
2.2 It is agreed shall be a condition of employment that all Union members, as of the signing of this Agreement, shall maintain their Union membership bargaining unit employees become and remain members in good standing for with the duration of Union, or pay an agency fee to the contract as a condition of employment.
2.3 All Employees hired on and after the signing of this Agreement shall, as a condition of employment, become Union members within the first thirty (30) days worked for the Company, maintaining such membership in good standing for the duration of the AgreementUnion. When an Employee is transferred or promoted out of the bargaining unit and later returns, he shall forthwith take out membership in the Union and remain Becoming a member in good standing requires a bargaining unit employee to pay to the Union an initiation fee, regular monthly dues, and supplemental dues. The agency fee shall not exceed the amounts required for initiation, regular monthly dues and supplemental Union dues. This requirement to become a member in good standing, or to pay and to remain current on the agency fees, shall become effective on the thirty- first (31st) day following the bargaining unit employee’s first (1st) day of employment, or the thirty-first (31st) day following the execution of this Agreement, whichever occurs later. The Employer shall, fourteen (14) calendar days after receiving written notice from the Union, terminate the employment of any bargaining unit employee(s) not in good standing. A bargaining unit employee may become a member in good standing, or become current on agency fees, thus avoiding termination from employment, up to the day of termination. The Union shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Employer from any liability arising out of this Union security clause.
2.01 The District hereby recognizes General Teamsters Local 959, during the term of this Agreement, as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for the positions contained within the classifications and work units referenced in this Agreement. A projected reclassification of a current position will be presented to the Union and the Union will be permitted to make a presentation during any reclassification committee meeting.
2.02 All regular and probationary employees who are not already members shall become members of the Union on or before the thirty-first (31st) day worked following the beginning of employment or the effective day of this Contract, whichever is later, and all employees shall maintain membership in the Union as a condition of employment during the life of this Agreement.
2.4 2.03 Employees must remain in good standing with the Union during the term of this Agreement and any renewal thereof. The Company agrees to the extent authorized in writing by each Employee, but not otherwise, to deduct payment of initiation fees and periodic dues and assessments uniformly required as a condition of retaining Union membership shall constitute good standing in the Union for the purpose of this paragraph. If an employee fails to deduct meet the aforementioned conditions of employment, the Union shall notify the employee that failure to meet the Union Security conditions will result in the District terminating the employee fourteen ten (1410) working calendar days after receipt of written notice from the first pay cheque of each month, the current month’s dues of any Employee covered by this Agreement, and to remit such monies so deducted to the Financial Secretary of the Local Union, not later than the tenth day following the date upon which such monies were deducted. Upon termination of employment of any Employee, his dues deduction authorization form shall be returned to the union within four (4) working days.
2.5 The Company will not be required to dismiss or suspend Employees from employment who have been expelled or suspended by the Union, unless such expulsion or suspension by the Union was for just cause. A dispute will be subject to the Grievance Procedure and Arbitration, if necessary.
2.6 The Company agrees that there will be no discrimination, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced by the Company or any of its representatives with respect to any Employee because of his membership in, or connection with the Union, and that membership in the Union, by Employees who are eligible to join, will not be discouraged.
2.7 2.04 The Union agrees that there be no intimidation, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced upon Employees of shall indemnify the Company by District and hold it harmless against any of its members or representatives, and that there will be no solicitation for membership, collection of dues, or any other Union activity on the premises of the Company.
2.8 No Employee will be laid off as a result of the Company contracting out, except where the work cannot be performed by the Employees.all
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Sources: Proposal Agreement
RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 2.1 Section 1. The Company acknowledges that the Employees in this unit described above had selected the Union as their exclusive collective bargaining unit, and recognizes the Union as such the sole agency for collective bargaining on behalf of all Employees employees, with the exception of timekeepers, clerks, office employees, watchmen and non-working foremen and non-working supervisors, in the said unitcharge of any classes of labor.
2.2 It Section 2. This recognition is agreed that all Union members, as interpreted by the parties to apply to any transfer or relocation of the signing Company’s present facility to another location within or outside of the metropolitan area, which are an accretion to the existing bargaining unit, where the jobs performed are substantially the same as are covered by the present Agreement.
Section 3. All employees with the exceptions noted in Section 1 who are members of the Union in good standing on the effective date of this Agreement, shall as a condition of continued employment, maintain their Union membership in good standing for in the duration Union. All employees, who on the effective date of this Agreement, are not as yet members in good standing of the contract as a condition Union, shall become members of employment.
2.3 All Employees hired on and after the signing of this Agreement shall, as a condition of employment, become Union members within the first in good standing by no later than thirty (30) days worked for following the Company, maintaining such effective date of this Agreement and shall maintain membership in good standing for the duration of the Agreement. When an Employee is transferred or promoted out of the bargaining unit and later returns, he shall forthwith take out membership in the Union in order to continue in employment. All new employees, shall as a condition of continued employment, become members and remain a member maintain membership in good standing during in the life Union by no later than thirty (30) days following the date of their employment or the effective date of this Agreement, whichever is the later.
2.4 Section 4. The Company agrees to discharge any employee who does not join or maintain his membership in good standing in the extent authorized in writing by each Employee, but not otherwise, to deduct initiation fees and to deduct Union within seven (7) calendar days after receipt of written notice from the first pay cheque Union that such employee is delinquent in initiation fee or dues. The Union will indemnify and save harmless the Company against any and all claims, demands, or suits that may arise out of each month, the current month’s dues discharge of any Employee covered by employee under this section.
Section 5. During the term of this Agreement, and to remit such monies so deducted to at the Financial Secretary written request of the Local Union, not later than the tenth day following the date upon which such monies were deducted. Upon termination of employment of any Employee, his dues deduction authorization form shall be returned to the union within four (4) working days.
2.5 The Company will not be required to dismiss or suspend Employees from employment who have been expelled or suspended by the Union, unless such expulsion or suspension the Company will deduct from their wages and remit promptly to the Union the regular monthly membership dues and/or initiation fees established by the Union was in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Union for just cause. A dispute will all employees who have executed and caused to be subject delivered to the Grievance Procedure and ArbitrationCompany a written authorization for such deductions, if necessary.
2.6 The Company agrees that there will on a form in conformity with the applicable statutes, which shall not be no discrimination, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced by the Company or any irrevocable for a period of its representatives with respect to any Employee because of his membership inmore than one (1) year, or connection with the Uniontermination date of this Agreement, and that membership in the Union, by Employees who are eligible to join, will not be discouragedwhichever occurs sooner.
2.7 The Union agrees that there be no intimidation, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced upon Employees of the Company by any of its members or representatives, and that there will be no solicitation for membership, collection of dues, or any other Union activity on the premises of the Company.
2.8 No Employee will be laid off as a result of the Company contracting out, except where the work cannot be performed by the Employees.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 2.1 1.1 The Company acknowledges that the Employees in this unit described above had selected the Union as their exclusive collective bargaining unit, and recognizes the Union as such the Sole and exclusive collective bargaining agency for all Employees of its employees to whom this Agreement is applicable, including all hourly paid production, maintenance, meter reading and collection employees, but excluding all watchmen and guards, all supervisory and clerical employees, all other salaried employees, and those excluded by the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, as amended and supplemented. Whenever the term "employee" is used hereinafter in this Agreement, it shall be deemed to apply only to those employees of the said unitCompany who are included within the bargaining unit as above described.
2.2 It is agreed that (a) The Union reserves unto itself at all times the right to pass upon applications for membership to its body and the right to have exclusive control over its members as far as their relations with the Union members, as are concerned.
(b) The Company agrees to notify the Secretary of the signing Union of each employee hired into, or terminated from, any bargaining unit job within seven (7) days of such action.
(c) Upon the Union’s request, but not more than four (4) times a year, the Company will supply the Union’s secretary with a list of active Local 424 U.W.U.A. employee names, addresses and phone numbers.
1.3 All employees on the thirtieth (30th) day following the date of execution of this Agreement, shall maintain their Union membership in good standing for or on the duration of thirtieth (30th) day following the contract as a condition date of employment.
2.3 All Employees hired on and after the signing of this Agreement , whichever is later, shall, as a condition of continued employment, become be members of the Union members within in good standing in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Union and the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947. All new employees hired to fill vacant U.W.U.A. positions covered by the collective bargaining agreement will be required to complete and return U.W.U.A. dues deduction authorization cards during the orientation process. The Company will have the sole right to discharge an employee until the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day of employment. New employees will not have any rights to the grievance and arbitration provisions of the contract until their one hundred and twenty-first (121st) day of employment. Benefits will be made available after thirty (30) days worked of employment.
1.4 The provisions of Section 1.3 shall be deemed to be inoperative and unenforceable unless there is full compliance with the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 and all amendments thereto and all other applicable laws.
1.5 Upon written authorization from an employee so to do, in a form approved by the Company and the Union, the Company will deduct from the earned wages of such employee and remit to the Union each week, an amount per week as directed by the Union in writing as dues of such employee. The specific amount shall be deducted each week and shall be certified from time to time to the Company by the president and treasurer of the Union as the current dues of members. Such deductions shall represent the dues of such employee for the Companycurrent week, maintaining such membership in good standing for and it is understood and agreed that the duration right of the Agreement. When an Employee Union to receive such dues shall accrue to it each week.
(a) Employees hired on a temporary basis for summer work and who perform bargaining unit jobs (as defined in separate memorandum) shall be required to pay union dues and such dues shall be deducted from their pay.
1.6 It is transferred or promoted out the intent of the Company to provide full time employment (not less than forty (40) hours per week) to its regular employees insofar as it is practical to do so.
(a) The Company is authorized to use outside contractors but may not lay off any member of the bargaining unit and later returnsfor lack of work while the work normally performed by that employee is being performed by an outside contractor, he shall forthwith take except that the Company may use contractors to do collections work. This does not preclude the contracting out membership of other work as set forth in existing letters of agreement. During the Union and remain a member in good standing during the life course of this Agreement.
2.4 The Company agrees to the extent authorized in writing by each Employee, but not otherwise, to deduct initiation fees and to deduct from the first pay cheque of each monthcontract, the current month’s dues Company will not reduce the total number of any Employee covered by Meter Readers below nine (9); this Agreement, and to remit such monies so deducted to the Financial Secretary supersedes all previous letters of the Local Union, not later than the tenth day following the date upon which such monies were deductedagreement regarding staffing compliments for Meter Readers. Upon termination of employment of any Employee, his dues deduction authorization form shall be returned to the union within four (4) working days.
2.5 The Company will not be required layoff any Meter Reader before November 21, 2006. If an employee currently in a Meter Reader position leaves his position for any reason, however, the Company may decide in its sole discretion whether to dismiss or suspend Employees from employment who have been expelled or suspended by fill the Union, unless such expulsion or suspension by the Union was for just cause. A dispute will be subject to the Grievance Procedure and Arbitration, if necessarynewly vacant position.
2.6 (b) It is the intent of the Company to limit the use of outside contractors to those functions normally sub- contracted prior to November 21, 1968.
(c) This does not preclude the Company from contracting work to be accomplished by new scientific methods, techniques or devices which might replace those currently in use. In the event this occurs, any employee(s) displaced as result thereof shall be transferred to other types of work with no loss of pay.
(d) The Company agrees that there will be no discriminationin the event a new scientific method, interferencetechnique or device is purchased or leased, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced by members of the bargaining unit shall operate this equipment. The Company or any of its representatives with respect to any Employee because of his membership in, or connection shall negotiate with the UnionUnion as to the rates of pay and new jobs created. It is mutually understood that the above scientific methods, techniques or devices refer to machines and that membership in the Union, by Employees who are eligible to join, will not be discouragedmen.
2.7 The Union agrees that there be no intimidation, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced upon Employees of the Company by any of its members or representatives, and that there will be no solicitation for membership, collection of dues, or any other Union activity on the premises of the Company.
2.8 No Employee will be laid off as a result of the Company contracting out, except where the work cannot be performed by the Employees.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 2.1 A. The Company acknowledges that the Employees in this unit described above had selected the Union as their exclusive collective bargaining unit, and recognizes the Union as such the exclusive bargaining agency for all Employees its employees for the purpose of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours, or other conditions of employment. The provisions of this Agreement constitute the said unitsole procedure for the processing and settlement of any claim by an employee or the Union of a violation by the Company of this Agreement. As the representative of the employees, the Union may process grievances through the grievance procedure, including arbitration, in accordance with this Agreement or adjust or settle the same.
2.2 It is agreed that all Union members, as B. All employees shall become members of the signing Union on the thirty-first (31st) calendar day after going to work or the effective date of this Agreement, shall whichever is the later, and thereafter maintain their Union membership in good standing for in the duration of the contract Union as a condition of employment. For the purposes of this Section, an employee shall not be deemed to have lost his membership in the Union in good standing until the International Treasurer of the Union shall have determined that the membership of such employee in the Union is not in good standing and shall have given the Company a notice in writing of that fact.
2.3 C. All Employees employees who are hired on and by the Company after the signing date of execution of this Agreement shallshall be reported promptly to the Union by the Company, as a condition of employment, become Union members within the first but in no case will reporting be delayed beyond thirty (30) days worked for days.
D. The Union heretofore has furnished the Company a notarized list of its members who are employees of the Company, maintaining which list shows the name, address, department, and badge number of each such membership employee. On or before the last day of each calendar month, the Union shall submit to the Company a notarized supplemental list showing the same information regarding each employee included in good standing for the duration such supplemental list of the Agreement. When an Employee is transferred or promoted out notarized list first referred to, covering all employees who shall have become members of the bargaining unit and later returns, he shall forthwith take out membership Union since the last previous list of members of the Union was furnished to the Company. For each employee included in the aforesaid lists to be supplied to the Company by the Union and remain for whom the Company has received a member in good standing during written assignment, not irrevocable for a period of more than one (1) year or beyond the life termination date of this Agreement.
2.4 The , whichever occurs sooner, executed by the employee concerned authorizing the Company agrees so to do, the extent authorized in writing by each Employee, but not otherwise, to deduct initiation fees and to Company shall deduct from the first pay cheque of each succeeding week (if Company's payroll system reasonably so permits and in any event from the second pay of such month) the Union membership dues for the preceding week including if so indicated on such lists, the current month’s dues initiation fee due the Union, as designated to the Company by the International Treasurer of the Union. The amount of such deductions and the conditions applying thereto shall continue as specified hereinabove, except as changes may be required to provide for continued conformance with applicable provisions of the Constitution of the International Union. All amounts deducted by the Company from the pay of any Employee covered employee hereunder shall be remitted by this Agreement, and to remit such monies so deducted the Company monthly to the Financial Secretary "International Treasurer, United Steelworkers of the Local UnionAmerica, not later than the tenth day following the date upon which such monies were deducted▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇". Upon termination of employment of any Employee, his dues deduction authorization form shall be returned to the union within four (4) working days.
2.5 _____________________ _____________________ Company Union The Company will check off dues from a lump sum vacation payment made to an employee for the appropriate number of months covered by such payment for which dues are not otherwise checked off.
E. The Union hereby indemnifies the Company and holds it harmless against any and all suits, claims, demands and liabilities that shall arise out of, or by reason of, any action that shall be required to dismiss taken by the Company for the purpose of complying with the foregoing provisions of this Article, or suspend Employees from employment who in reliance on any list or certificate which shall have been expelled or suspended by the Union, unless such expulsion or suspension by the Union was for just cause. A dispute will be subject furnished to the Grievance Procedure and Arbitration, if necessaryCompany under any of such provisions.
2.6 F. The Company agrees that there it will be no discriminationnot sell, interferenceconvey, restraint assign, or coercion exercised otherwise transfer, all or practiced by substantially all, of the Company or any of its representatives with respect Plant to any Employee because other party ("Buyer") unless the following conditions have been satisfied prior to the closing date of his membership in, or connection the sale: (1) the Buyer shall have entered into an agreement with the Union, and that membership in Union recognizing it as the Union, by Employees who are eligible to join, will not be discouraged.
2.7 The Union agrees that there be no intimidation, interference, restraint or coercion exercised or practiced upon Employees bargaining representative for the employees of the Company by any of its members or representatives, sold facilities; and that there will be no solicitation for membership, collection of dues, or any other Union activity on the premises of the Company.
2.8 No Employee will be laid off as a result of the Company contracting out, except where the work cannot be performed by the Employees.either:
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement (Century Aluminum Co)