Center Building. The Union shall provide the City with the requested date, time and locations of the usage of said facilities.
Center Building seCTIon 5. unIon Dues All employees covered by this Agreement shall be subject to the union security provisions contained in the appli- cable Appendix A Agreement, as amended from time to time, but only for the period of time during which they are performing Covered Work and only to the extent of rendering payment of the applicable monthly union dues uniformly required for union membership in the Signatory Union which represents the craft in which the employee is performing Covered Work. No employee shall be discriminated against at the Project because of the employee’s union membership or lack thereof. In the case of unaffiliated employees, the dues payment will be received by the Signatory Union as an agency shop fee. How will nonunion contractors’ employees be provided with benefits? How will nonunion and union contractors be provided a level playing field with respect to the cost of benefits? Nonunion contractors’ benefit plans are typically not as comprehensive, generous, or expensive as those of union con- tractors. This raises issues about how the employees of nonunion contractors obtain benefit plan coverage while working under a PLA and how the playing field for benefit costs is leveled between union and nonunion contractors. Nonunion contractors have a cost advantage relative to union contractors because of their lower benefit costs. Leveling the playing field, and adhering to the terms of the PLA, requires that nonunion contractors’ benefit costs be the same as those of union contractors. The historic solution to this matter has been to require that nonunion contractors pay into joint labor/management benefit funds. Some nonunion contractors have objected to this system, arguing that, in effect, they are paying twice for their employees’ benefits, since they must maintain their own benefit plans while paying into the joint plans. Further, although nonunion workers may benefit from participating in union health insurance plans, there is little gain from short-term enrollment in pension plans. There is also some anecdotal evidence that nonunion employees take advantage of access to the superior coverage provided by union health funds to obtain medical treatments that are not covered or are more costly under their own insurance. Despite considerable discussion of the issue of double payment of benefits (see, for example, Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx 1998), actual instances of double payments by open shop contractors working under PLAs are not well documente...
