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6/29/2010

Status of Contract Negotiations

As of June 23, 2010

 

Current Contract:

Total Package $ 52.47

 

Contractor Offered:                                                                                                       

Year One    Total Package                  $46.97

 

Year Two    Total Package                  $46.97

Year Three  Total Package                 $46.97

Year Four    Total Package                 $47.47

 

Issues contractors are having:

 

Continuing Education

Licenses

Holidays

Grievance and Arbitration

3 Year rule on Separations for Cause

Cell Phones on the job

No overtime until 40 hours is met.  Strikes  for sympathy, shop steward, compared to jobs or company.

 

 

** Please note that the wage package offered by the contractors is the wage package in effect for 11/07 through 07/08, this would be frozen for three years, with a 50¢ increase in the fourth year.

 

 

 

So far, the contractors and the Union  have agreed to:

 

Eight (8) hours shall constitute the standard work day, excluding the lunch period.  Working hours may be changed at any time between 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m..  During midpoint between start time and lunch period there will be a 15 minute break.  Should a contractor wish to combine the morning break and lunch break on a project as a result of unusual circumstances, which render the normal morning break impractical or unfeasible.  The Contractor agrees to meet and confer with Local 602 in advance of implementing such a combined break.  There shall be a thirty (30) minute lunch break taken near the mid point of a standard workday between the hours as indicated in this collective bargaining agreement.

 

If a member is hired after the holiday, the company is not responsible for payment of the holiday.

 

Agreed to shift a 4-10’s schedule around, in the week of a holiday, in order for the job to be manned for 40 hours, no penalty for refusal to work your normal day off.

 

Article XL, Mechanical Helper, Paragraph 179, should read;  Helpers, Residential Tradesmen, MES, NT, compensation packages will be increased by the same percentage as the Journeyman Compensation Package.

 

Service Agreement

 

Article VIII, Job Steward, Paragraph 22, add to end of paragraph;   Shops with multiple sites, but having more than five Local 602 members total will be required to have a steward, i.e. Service, Retro Fit Shops.  The Union Hall will be contacted 72 hours before the last steward is released.  A steward shall, in addition to his work as a journeyman, be permitted to perform, during work hours such of his union duties as pertains only to that job and cannot be performed at other times.  The steward shall be responsible for collecting referrals.

 

Article IX, Hours of Work, Overtime and Shift Work, paragraph 23 should read:  Hours of Work.  Eight (8) consecutive hours per day shall constitute a standard work day with a flexible starting time between 4:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m..  During a midpoint between start time and lunch period there will be a 15 minute break.  Forty hours per week, (5) consecutive days, Monday through Friday, shall constitute a week’s work or as mutually agreed to be the employer and the Local Union.  

 

ITEMS NOT RESOLVED/UNION PROPOSALS

 

$3.00 per hour increase in total package for a period of one year.

 

·          Clarification of fire watch

·         Toilets to be responsibility of Mechanical Contractor

·         Temporary Heat limited to 120 days

·          Clarification of Jurisdictional Disputes

·         Grievance and Arbitration Procedure – change to the current language

·         Supervision – request that application members not be allowed to direct men

·         Supervision – request that an apprentice does not direct men until fifth year

·         Non exclusive hiring – new hires must have a referral via the Hall. 

·         Non exclusive hiring – employer must have a reason for refusal.

·         Job steward – clarification of duties of job stewards

·         Foreman rate to change to percentage .

·         Hours of work – clarify break times and lunch times

·         Hours of work – clock out on employer’s time, clock in on own time

·         Overtime – clarification

·         Sick Leave Policy

·         Hours of Work – change in Holiday pay (1 day before, 1 day after)

·         Hours of Work – change in way member disqualified from Holiday Pay, can only be charged for one holiday per incident.

·         Increase in Travel allowance for apprentice and helper.

·         Travel allowance – request for travel allowance and per diem when traveling out of town overnight

·         Stand By compensation for being on call

·         PAC Fund, auto deductions

·         International Training Fund – requesting the contractor help offset the cost

·         Reportable Hours – to include benefits paid in conjunction with hours worked, i.e. when paid at 1.5x rate benefits should also be paid at 1.5x rate, when paid double time, benefits will also be paid  x 2.

·         Appendix B – requirement of the contractor to forward to the Union, prior to implementing, any new drug policies, differing from the Pipeline Agreement.

·         Article I, Fitness for Duty – requesting clarification in the payment procedures.

·         Standards for Excellence – step discipline for discharge, the insertion of the Contractors responsibilities. 

 

We are trying to combine the Construction and                 Service Agreement to be the same except for a few items which are specific to each side.  

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