The Company recognizes the Union as the exclusive
collective bargaining agent for all employees covered by this Agreement, as
follows:
1.1(a) Seattle-Renton 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, 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and functions which have superseded those mentioned in the foregoing exclusions,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 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
Primary Location.
Such unit is primarily identified with the Primary
Location known as Seattle-Renton and with Aerospace Industrial District Lodge
No. 751, IAM & AW, AFL-CIO.
1.1(b) Wichita Unit.
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 Wichita and with District Lodge No. 70, IAM & AW,
AFL-CIO.
1.1(c) Portland Unit.
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 Portland and with District Lodge No. 24.
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 Union,
arising out of Union jurisdictional claims as to the employees properly to be
included in one of the collective bargaining units identified in this Article 1
and to work assignments of unrepresented individuals, shall be resolved in
accordance with the following rules and procedures:
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 Union.
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 Union and who is not
within a collective bargaining unit represented by another labor organization.
1.3(c) Temporary
performance by an unrepresented employee of work that is not normally and regularly
a part of his job assignment shall not be used by the Union as the basis for
any jurisdictional claim under this Section 1.3. It is understood that this Section 1.3(c) shall not be used in
determining whether such temporary performance affords basis for a grievance
under any other provision of this Agreement.
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.