Job Security and Outside Contracting. 6.1 The City is committed to providing regular budgeted positions for bargaining unit members and does not intend to privatize its workforce. No employee shall lose their employment as a result of contracting out work performed by bargaining unit employees. Any reduction of employees as the result of contracting out will be done through attrition or transfer of affected employees to comparable employment. This does not preclude layoff for other reasons including the termination of regular status employees for just cause.
Job Security and Outside Contracting. It is the policy of the Company, that outside contractors will not be utilized to perform work normally done by seniority employees.
Job Security and Outside Contracting. 6.1 Any work which is performed by bargaining unit employees shall not be contracted out until the City indicates that the contracting out will result in reduced costs. This does not restrict the City from contracting out work previously contracted. When contracting of work is being considered, the City shall withhold taking such action to provide the Union a reasonable opportunity for discussion of the matter, including alternate methods of performing the work. The City will provide all available cost comparison data to the Union(s) concerned based on uniform specifications. However, except for union contractors, available cost comparisons must include wage, health, welfare and pension costs comparable to those contained in this Agreement. The foregoing cost comparisons shall not apply to existing contracts and practices including those that may be renewed.
Job Security and Outside Contracting. It is the policy of the Company that employees of an outside contractor will not be utilized in the plant to replace seniority employees on production assembly or manufacturing work, warehousing work, or fabrication of tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures, normally and historically performed by them, when performance of such work involves the use of Company – owned machines, tools or equipment maintained by the Company employees. 492 This policy shall not affect the right of the Company to continue arrangements currently in effect nor shall it limit the fulfillment of warranty obligations by vendors nor limit the work which a vendor must perform to prove out equipment. 493 It is the policy of the Company to fully utilize its seniority employees in the performance of maintenance and construction work in accordance with the statement of policy established under the prior contract. It is the Company policy in all cases, except where time and circumstances prevent it, to have advance discussion with the local Union representatives prior to letting such a contract. In this discussion local Management is expected to review its plans or prospects for letting a particular contract. 494 The local Union should be advised of the nature, scope and approximate dates of the work to be performed and the reasons (equipment, manpower, etc., why management is contemplating contracting out the work. At such times, Company representatives are expected to afford the Union an opportunity to comment on the Company’s plans and to give appropriate weight to those comments in the light of all attendant circumstances. 495 In no event shall any seniority employee who customarily performs the work in question be laid off as a direct and immediate result of work being performed by any outside contractor on the plant premises. 496 20.02 Employees shall be permitted to smoke in those sections and areas of the plant premises which are not restricted against smoking because of safety or fire hazards.
Job Security and Outside Contracting. The Auditor’s Office occasionally has the need to complete work using contracted labor or professional expertise. The use of contracts generally augments work otherwise assigned to employees and does not result in layoffs. If the Auditor’s Office plans to contract out work that otherwise would be performed by bargaining unit employees, the Auditor’s Office will notify the Union before the contracting plan is executed, except when the Auditor’s Office determines that an emergency exists. In a non-emergency circumstance, the Union will have fourteen (14) calendar days to demand to bargain. If no demand to bargain is made, the Auditor’s Office may implement the contracting plan. If the Union demands to bargain, the parties will bargain under the provisions of ORS 243.698.
Job Security and Outside Contracting. He/She shall have no authority in cases of violations of the Company’s express commitments set forth in Article IV, Section 8, except as he/she is herein specifically empowered.
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