of September 29, 2005 4, 2008
BETWEEN
THE BOEING COMPANY
and
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
MACHINISTS
AND AEROSPACE WORKERS, AFL-CIO
and
CERTAIN DISTRICTS AND LOCAL
LODGES THEREOF
THIS AGREEMENT, dated as of the 29th 4th day
of September, 2005 2008,
by and between The Boeing Company, a Delaware corporation (the term “the
Company” being hereinafter deemed in each instance to refer to such
corporation), and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, AFL-CIO, and those of its lodges now and hereafter representing
employees of the Company in the units described in Article 1 (the term “the
Union” being hereinafter deemed in each instance to refer to the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, and to each such
district or local lodge in reference respectively to the collective bargaining
unit with which it is identified and the employees therein);
WITNESSETH that
WHEREAS, the parties have negotiated the
terms and conditions of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (hereinafter referred
to as the “Agreement”), relating to employees of the Company represented by the
Union and more particularly described in this Agreement and to the wages, hours
and other terms and conditions of employment of such employees, and the parties
desire to reduce the Agreement to writing; and whereas the terms “Primary
Location” and “Remote Location,” as used in this Agreement and the appendices
hereto respectively shall have the following meanings: “Primary Location” shall refer to a major
base of Company operations designated by the Company as a Primary Location such
as “Seattle-Renton
Puget Sound,”
“Wichita” or “Portland.” “Remote
Location” shall refer to a Company operation located in an area away from a
Primary Location and designated by the Company as a Remote Location of a
particular Primary Location, such as Vandenberg Air Force Base, Plant 77 (
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
mutual promises hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
The Company
recognizes the
1.1(a) Seattle-Renton Puget Sound Unit.
1.1(a)(1)
Those employees in the collective bargaining unit that were involved in
National Labor Relations Board Case No. 19-RC-344, and now consisting of: All production and maintenance employees of
the Company in the State of Washington, who are not on temporary assignment
from a Primary Location other than Seattle-Renton Puget Sound,
but excluding, as to employees within and without the State of Washington: employees working in the receiving and
testing department performing chemical or electrical laboratory work;
stenographers A and B working for foremen, general foremen, inspection
supervisors, production supervisors and chief timekeepers; production engineers
in the Production Planning Department and the Experimental Production Department
working under the job titles of Senior Production Engineer B, Production
Engineer A, Production Engineer B, Production Planner Special and Production
Planner B; the following employees in departments 521 and 525: production control recorders, working group
leaders, clerks, expeditors, stenographers and operators of tabulating, key
punch and verifier machines; power plant operators; truck drivers operating on
the public highway; office clerical employees; guards, professional employees,
and supervisors as defined in the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947; and
subject to any further exclusions to the extent required by other
certifications, orders or rulings of the NLRB, and further excluding those
classifications, organizations and functions which have superseded those
mentioned in the foregoing exclusions, and
1.1(a)(2) All
staff nurses employed by the Company in the State of Washington, excluding
supervisory nurses, as designated in National Labor Relations Board
certification dated January 29, 1973, in Case No. 19-RC-6400, and
1.1(a)(3)
Instructors and group leaders assigned as instructors over the
production and maintenance employees designated in subparagraph 1.1(a)(1), and
1.1(a)(4) All
employees of the Company in the Seattle-Renton Puget Sound Unit
as described in subparagraphs 1.1(a)(1), 1.1(a)(2) and 1.1(a)(3) who are
outside the State of Washington but who are at Remote Locations identified with
the Seattle-Renton
Puget Sound Primary
Location.
Such unit is primarily identified with the
Primary Location known as Seattle-Renton
1.1(b)
1.1(b)(1) Those employees in the collective bargaining unit described as
follows: those employees in the
collective bargaining unit that were involved in National Labor Relations Board
Case No. 17-R-406 and to whom Appendix "A" to the "Agreement for
Consent Election" executed June 14, 1943, in that case, relates, including
generally all hourly paid production and maintenance employees; and
classifications of employees subsequently added pursuant to agreement of March
28, 1946 (including Tool Record Clerks), agreement of May 16, 1946 (including
Timekeepers), agreement of June 14, 1946 (including Production Stock Record
Clerks), agreement of October 25, 1946 (including Production Inventory Clerks),
agreement of February 27, 1947 (including Blueprint Control Clerks), National
Labor Relations Board decision in Case Numbers 17-RC-790 and 17-RC-791
(including Contact Printers and Rivet Control Clerks), and National Labor
Relations Board decision in Case No. 17-RC-905 and agreement of March 29, 1951
(including Inspectors in certain designated job classifications), and National
Labor Relations Board decision in Case No. 17-RC-5403 and agreement of May 5,
1967 (including Industrial Waste Treatment Plant Operators); but excluding all
classifications of employees not permitted to vote in the consent election on
July 3, 1943 in National Labor Relations Board Case No. 17-R-406; and subject
to any further exclusions to the extent required by other certifications,
orders or rulings of the NLRB.
1.1(b)(2) All
employees of the Company in the Wichita Unit described in 1.1(b)(1) who are at
Remote Locations identified with the Wichita Primary Location.
Such unit is primarily identified with the
Primary Location known as
1.1(c)
1.1(c)(1)
Those employees in the collective bargaining unit described as follows: those hourly paid production and maintenance
employees, and occupational health nurses, within the collective bargaining
unit identified with the Portland Primary Location, excluding office clerical
employees, professional employees, guards and watchmen, and supervisors as
defined in the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, and also excluding
individuals on temporary assignment from another Primary Location, which
Portland Primary Location is the operation the Company is conducting at 19000
N.E. Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, as designated in the collective
bargaining agreement of November 1, 1975, between the Company and the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO and
Willamette Lodge No. 63 thereof.
1.1(c)(2) All employees
of the Company in the Portland Unit described in subparagraph 1.1(c)(1) who are
at Remote Locations identified with the Portland Primary Location.
Such unit is primarily identified with the
Primary Location known as
1.1(d) Additional
Primary Locations.
All other production and maintenance
employees of the Company of the type referred to in subparagraph 1.1(a)(1)
(subject to exclusions of the type stated or referred to in subparagraph
1.1(a)(1)) whose employment is identified with any Primary Location hereinafter
designated as such by the Company.
It is recognized that the Company's business for the foreseeable future
will require the establishment and maintenance, or continued maintenance of
temporary or semi-permanent operations in various locations in North America
and the islands related thereto and in each such instance where a designated
Remote Location is involved, it is the intent of this Agreement that, subject
to any further or supplemental agreement of the parties on the matter,
employees that are assigned to work at such location or are hired at the
location for work there, shall be considered as remaining or being within the
collective bargaining unit identified with the Primary Location of the Company
that originally set up the work force identified with the business being
conducted by the Company at such location; with the exception that in the case
of employees at such location who are there by reason of temporary assignment
from some Primary Location other than the one originally setting up such work
force, the latter employees shall while on such temporary assignment continue
to be identified with the collective bargaining unit at the Primary Location
from which they were so assigned.
Controversies between the Company and the
1.3(a) Controversies to which this Section 1.3
relates shall be those based on the contention by the Union that the work
assignments of one or more unrepresented individuals properly should be
performed only by an employee in one of the units identified in this Article 1
and represented by the
1.3(b) An unrepresented individual is one employed
by the Company who is treated by the Company as not being within a unit
represented by the
1.3(c) Temporary performance by an unrepresented
employee of work that is not normally and regularly a part of his/her job
assignment shall not be used by the
1.3(d) Union jurisdictional claims shall be
resolved as provided in Section 19.15.
1.3(e) It is the intent of the Company that
unrepresented employees shall not be assigned to displace employees in any of
the bargaining units identified in this Article 1 during periods such
unrepresented employees remain outside any such bargaining unit.
1.3(f) Any jurisdictional dispute involving
represented employees who are not within one of the units described in this
Article 1 shall not be subject to the grievance and arbitration provisions of
this Agreement.