CBA Local 602 and MCAMW 08 2022 - 07 2025.pdf

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT

between

Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.

and Steamfitters Local Union No. 602

United Association

Effective August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025

INDEX

Article Page Articles of Agreement 1

I Purpose 1 II Recognition 1 III Management Rights 2 IV Union Security 2 V Working Rules for Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices 2 VI Duties of Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices 3 VII Work Jurisdiction 5 VIII Jurisdictional Awards Board and International Agreements 5 IX Conflict of Interest 5 X Tools 6 XI Conference Board 6 XII Grievance and Arbitration Procedure 6 XIII Installations and Material Handling 7 XIV Subcontracting 7 XV Supervision 7 XVI Non-Exclusive Hiring 8 XVII Journeyman Licensing 9 XVIII Workers’ Compensation 9 XIX Safety 9 XX Job/Shop Steward 9 XXI Hours of Work, Overtime, Shift Work and Weather Day 10 XXII Wages & Fringes 12 XXIII Travel Allowance, Car Allowance and Overnight Work Assignments 13 XXIV State Withholding 14 XXV Paydays 14 XXVI Reporting Pay 15 XXVII Bereavement 15 XXVIII Reporting for David-Bacon Wage Rates 15 XXIX Medical Fund 15 XXX Pension Fund 16 XXXI Retirement Savings Fund 16 XXXII Apprenticeship Training Fund 17 XXXIII International Training Fund 17 XXXIV Industry Fund 17 XXXV M. Eddie Moore Scholarship Trust Fund 18 XXXVI Communications and Productivity Fund 18 XXXVII Apprenticeship Training 18 XXXVIII Payments to Trust Funds 18 XXXIX Temporary Heating and Cooling 19

STEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION No. 602 8700 Ashwood Drive, 2nd Floor

Capitol Heights, MD 20743

(301) 333-2356

(301) 333-1730 fax

MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON, INC.

9200 Corporate Blvd Suite 240

Rockville, MD 20850

(301) 731-0330

(301) 731-5343 fax

HEATING, PIPING AND REFRIGERATION FUNDS

9411 Philadelphia Road, Suite S

Baltimore, MD 21237 1-800-618-2879

(410) 444-0035 fax

COORDINATOR—STEAMFITTERS

U.A. MECHANICAL TRADES SCHOOL

8509 Ardwick-Ardmore Rd.

Landover, Md. 20785

(301) 341-1555

(301) 386-3271 fax

INDEX

Article Page Articles of Agreement 1

I Purpose 1 II Recognition 1 III Management Rights 2 IV Union Security 2 V Working Rules for Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices 2 VI Duties of Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices 3 VII Work Jurisdiction 5 VIII Jurisdictional Awards Board and International Agreements 5 IX Conflict of Interest 5 X Tools 6 XI Conference Board 6 XII Grievance and Arbitration Procedure 6 XIII Installations and Material Handling 7 XIV Subcontracting 7 XV Supervision 7 XVI Non-Exclusive Hiring 8 XVII Journeyman Licensing 9 XVIII Workers’ Compensation 9 XIX Safety 9 XX Job/Shop Steward 9 XXI Hours of Work, Overtime, Shift Work and Weather Day 10 XXII Wages & Fringes 12 XXIII Travel Allowance, Car Allowance and Overnight Work Assignments 13 XXIV State Withholding 14 XXV Paydays 14 XXVI Reporting Pay 15 XXVII Bereavement 15 XXVIII Reporting for David-Bacon Wage Rates 15 XXIX Medical Fund 15 XXX Pension Fund 16 XXXI Retirement Savings Fund 16 XXXII Apprenticeship Training Fund 17 XXXIII International Training Fund 17 XXXIV Industry Fund 17 XXXV M. Eddie Moore Scholarship Trust Fund 18 XXXVI Communications and Productivity Fund 18 XXXVII Apprenticeship Training 18 XXXVIII Payments to Trust Funds 18 XXXIX Temporary Heating and Cooling 19

STEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION No. 602 8700 Ashwood Drive, 2nd Floor

Capitol Heights, MD 20743

(301) 333-2356

(301) 333-1730 fax

MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON, INC.

9200 Corporate Blvd Suite 240

Rockville, MD 20850

(301) 731-0330

(301) 731-5343 fax

HEATING, PIPING AND REFRIGERATION FUNDS

9411 Philadelphia Road, Suite S

Baltimore, MD 21237 1-800-618-2879

(410) 444-0035 fax

COORDINATOR—STEAMFITTERS

U.A. MECHANICAL TRADES SCHOOL

8509 Ardwick-Ardmore Rd.

Landover, Md. 20785

(301) 341-1555

(301) 386-3271 fax

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT

1. This Agreement, made this 1st day of August, 2022 by and between the Mechanical Contractors Association of

Metropolitan Washington, Inc., hereinafter known as the “Association”, for and on behalf of all contractor members of said Association and Local Union No. 602 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO) hereinafter known as the “Union”.

Provisions of this Agreement shall be binding on Employers who are not members of the Association but who become signatory hereto. Contractors, whether members of the Association or not, may be interchangeably referred to as Employers herein.

2. The Union shall submit to the Association copies of all agreements signed between the Union and non-association Employers.

3. The territorial jurisdiction covered by this Agreement includes: District of Columbia; Counties of Montgomery, Prince Georges, Charles, St. Mary’s, Calvert, and parts of Anne Arundel and Howard, all in the State of Maryland;

and Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Fauquier, Clarke, King George, Stafford, parts of Warren, Frederick, Westmoreland and Spotsylvania, and the Cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax City, Winchester and Fredericksburg, all in the State of Virginia.

4. It is further understood and agreed that any contractor bound by the terms of this Agreement by virtue of membership in the Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc. agrees that if he withdraws his membership from the Association he shall be bound by all terms and provisions of this Agreement for the balance of the term of the Agreement. Any contractor hereinafter joining the Association shall be bound by all terms and conditions of this contract as an incident of this membership in this Association.

ARTICLE I

Purpose

5a. The parties hereto agree that:

5b. Close contact and mutually sympathetic interest between Employee and Employer will develop a better working system which will tend constantly to stimulate production while improving the relationship between the Employee, Employer and the community.

5c. The right of Employees and Employers in local groups to establish local wage scales and local working rules is recognized.

5d. Strikes and lockouts are detrimental to the interests alike of Employees, Employer and the public, and should be avoided.

5e. Mechanical work will be done by the Mechanical Contracting industry.

5f. The public interest is conserved, hazard to life and property is reduced, and standards of work are improved by fixing an adequate minimum of qualifications in knowledge and experience as a requirement precedent to the right of an individual to engage in the Mechanical Contracting Industry. It is the desire of Steamfitters Local No. 602 and the Mechanical Contracting industry that there be continuing education by the journeymen of the Union.

5g. Agreements or understandings which are designed to obstruct directly or indirectly the free development of trade, or to secure to special groups special privileges and advantages, are subversive to the public interest and cancel the doctrine of equality of rights and opportunity, and should be condemned.

5h. The Association and Union agree to establish job classifications at such wage rates as will enable contractors to obtain contracts in new market areas in which mechanical contractor’s signatory to this Agreement are not presently competitive.

5i. There shall be no discrimination against anyone, by either party, for reasons of color, race, creed, national origin, sex, age or disability.

ARTICLE II

Recognition

6. The Association and all other employing contractors who become signatory hereto recognize the Union as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative for all Employees in the employ of the Employers and engaged in any and all work covered by this Agreement and the Working Rules and Duties of Pipefitters with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, subject to provisions of existing laws.

XL Separability 20 XLI Dues Check Off 20 XLII Layoff 20 XLIII Mechanical Helper 20 XLIV Modification, Termination and Duration 22 Appendix A 24 Appendix B United Association National Pipe Line Substance Abuse Policy 26

Article I to Appendix B — Fitness of Duty 27 Appendix C Joint Conference Board Decision-Break 28 Appendix D Standards for Excellence 29 Appendix E Side Letter 32

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT

1. This Agreement, made this 1st day of August, 2022 by and between the Mechanical Contractors Association of

Metropolitan Washington, Inc., hereinafter known as the “Association”, for and on behalf of all contractor members of said Association and Local Union No. 602 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO) hereinafter known as the “Union”.

Provisions of this Agreement shall be binding on Employers who are not members of the Association but who become signatory hereto. Contractors, whether members of the Association or not, may be interchangeably referred to as Employers herein.

2. The Union shall submit to the Association copies of all agreements signed between the Union and non-association Employers.

3. The territorial jurisdiction covered by this Agreement includes: District of Columbia; Counties of Montgomery, Prince Georges, Charles, St. Mary’s, Calvert, and parts of Anne Arundel and Howard, all in the State of Maryland;

and Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Fauquier, Clarke, King George, Stafford, parts of Warren, Frederick, Westmoreland and Spotsylvania, and the Cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax City, Winchester and Fredericksburg, all in the State of Virginia.

4. It is further understood and agreed that any contractor bound by the terms of this Agreement by virtue of membership in the Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc. agrees that if he withdraws his membership from the Association he shall be bound by all terms and provisions of this Agreement for the balance of the term of the Agreement. Any contractor hereinafter joining the Association shall be bound by all terms and conditions of this contract as an incident of this membership in this Association.

ARTICLE I

Purpose

5a. The parties hereto agree that:

5b. Close contact and mutually sympathetic interest between Employee and Employer will develop a better working system which will tend constantly to stimulate production while improving the relationship between the Employee, Employer and the community.

5c. The right of Employees and Employers in local groups to establish local wage scales and local working rules is recognized.

5d. Strikes and lockouts are detrimental to the interests alike of Employees, Employer and the public, and should be avoided.

5e. Mechanical work will be done by the Mechanical Contracting industry.

5f. The public interest is conserved, hazard to life and property is reduced, and standards of work are improved by fixing an adequate minimum of qualifications in knowledge and experience as a requirement precedent to the right of an individual to engage in the Mechanical Contracting Industry. It is the desire of Steamfitters Local No. 602 and the Mechanical Contracting industry that there be continuing education by the journeymen of the Union.

5g. Agreements or understandings which are designed to obstruct directly or indirectly the free development of trade, or to secure to special groups special privileges and advantages, are subversive to the public interest and cancel the doctrine of equality of rights and opportunity, and should be condemned.

5h. The Association and Union agree to establish job classifications at such wage rates as will enable contractors to obtain contracts in new market areas in which mechanical contractor’s signatory to this Agreement are not presently competitive.

5i. There shall be no discrimination against anyone, by either party, for reasons of color, race, creed, national origin, sex, age or disability.

ARTICLE II

Recognition

6. The Association and all other employing contractors who become signatory hereto recognize the Union as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative for all Employees in the employ of the Employers and engaged in any and all work covered by this Agreement and the Working Rules and Duties of Pipefitters with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, subject to provisions of existing laws.

XL Separability 20 XLI Dues Check Off 20 XLII Layoff 20 XLIII Mechanical Helper 20 XLIV Modification, Termination and Duration 22 Appendix A 24 Appendix B United Association National Pipe Line Substance Abuse Policy 26

Article I to Appendix B — Fitness of Duty 27 Appendix C Joint Conference Board Decision-Break 28 Appendix D Standards for Excellence 29 Appendix E Side Letter 32

ARTICLE III

Management Rights

7. The management of the business is the sole and exclusive prerogative and responsibility of the Employer. This shall include but not be limited to the direction of the working force, the right to hire, to plan, direct, control and schedule all operations (including scheduling of the work force), the right to establish, eliminate, change or introduce new or improved methods, machinery, quality standards or facilities which are in the best interests of the trade. The Employer is vested with the right to discipline or to relieve any Employee from duty for just cause, or to lay off an Employee because of lack of work. The Employer is also vested with the right to promote, demote or transfer Employees in line with this Agreement.

8. The Union shall grant to all signatories to this Agreement any base rate, fringe benefit costs or working conditions for a particular job bid which may be extended or permitted to any company or Association which also bids on the particular job within the geographical jurisdiction of Local No. 602 and which may be more favorable to an Employer than those contained in this contract. The Union will report to the Association any base rate or fringes which are more favorable than those contained in this contract and which are granted to any Employer or company making a job bid within the jurisdiction of Local No. 602. National Agreements are not applicable.

9. The Union shall not sanction any Employee performing any heating, cooling or pipe work for other than his current Employer.

ARTICLE IV

Union Security

10. All Employees covered by this Agreement, members of the Union, now in the employ of any Contractor signatory hereto, shall remain members in good standing in the Union during the term of this Agreement. All Employees covered by this Agreement, hereinafter employed by any Contractor, shall become members of the Union on the eighth (8th) day following the beginning of such employment or the effective date of this Agreement, whichever is later, and shall remain members of the Union in good standing during the term of this Agreement. (This clause shall be effective only in those states permitting Union Security.)

11. If any Employee who is required, as a condition of continued employment by the Contractor to acquire and/or retain membership in good standing in the Union by the provisions of Paragraph 10 above, shall fail to do so by reason of a failure on his/her part to tender the periodic dues or initiation fees uniformly required as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership, and if the fact of such failure is certified to the Contractor by the Financial Secretary- Treasurer of the Union, the Contractor will thereupon notify such Employee that, unless he/she shall earlier correct such failure by the tender of all such dues and initiation fees that may then be due and owing, his/her employment by the Contractor will terminate as of the fifth (5th) day following the date of receipt of the certification if prior to such fifth (5th) day such failure shall not have been so corrected, the Contractor will thereupon cause such employment to terminate.

ARTICLE V

Working Rules for Journeymen

Pipefitters and Apprentices

12. No journeymen shall work more than one (1) apprentice unless approved by the Business Manager.

13. Cutting of all holes for pipe only to be done by pipefitter, apprentice, and or, mechanical helper.

14. Cutting of all pipe two (2) inches and under to be done by pipefitter and/or apprentice.

15. All machines when used on the job in connection with any piping work shall be operated by a pipefitter and/ orapprentice.

16. Journeyman pipefitter and/or apprentice shall make up fittings on all pipe.

17. Employees covered by this Agreement will be provided with a suitable heated area for the changing and storing of clothes.

18. Potable water shall be provided by the Employer for all Employees covered hereby, twelve (12) months a year, in work areas.

19. All Employer owned tools that require job site maintenance, used by pipefitters on job site, shall be repaired on job site by pipefitters.

20. Slow-downs, standby crews and featherbedding practices will not be permitted.

21. When work must be removed due to defective workmanship or carelessness by an Employee, or where any damage to the building or contents is the result of such defective workmanship or carelessness by an Employee, this must be immediately reported to the Conference Committee for investigation. Their decision in the matter is final.

Should the decision be rendered against the Employee to pay for the damage thus caused, the Employee must pay for the damage.

22. All protective equipment such as welding gloves, shields, sleeves, goggles, and other such types of special equipment, is to be supplied and replaced when required by the contractor. This issued equipment must be returned to the contractor at termination of employment.

23. In all shops where five (5) or more men are employed, every sixth (6th) man shall be fifty-five (55) years of age or older, if available, and provided he is physically fit.

24. The ratio for apprentices to journeyman shall be three (3) journeymen to one (1) apprentice based on the availability of the apprentices.

25. The Employer will assist in helping secure from the prime contractor sanitary conditions with regard to portable toilets. If the prime contractor fails to provide and maintain adequate portable toilets and as allowed by the prime contractor, the Employer will provide one (1) portable toilet for the first twenty (20) employees and two (2) portable toilets for employees numbering from twenty-one to forty (21-40) and so forth for each additional twenty (20) employees per construction site. Each will be provided with a combination lock to allow for exclusive safe use by the Employer’s employees.

26. The personal use of electronic devices (cell phones, pagers, MP3 players, boomboxes, IPods) during working hours is strictly prohibited except as qualified herein. (This prohibition applies to use on job sites, in pre-fab shops and in company vehicles.) Personal use of cell phones, pagers and texting devices during normal working hours is permitted in the case of an emergency. In addition, personal use of cell phones, pagers and texting devices is permitted during the break and lunch periods. Should a signatory contractor, customer or owner’s policy be more stringent than this Paragraph, those limitations on the use of electronic devices shall be in addition to these restrictions.

ARTICLE VI

Duties of Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices

27. All the following work and work tasks shall be assigned to and performed by journeymen pipefitters and apprentices subject, however, to the provisions of Paragraphs 49, 50 and 51 of this Article:

28. The handling, setting, moving, hanging, loading and unloading, laying out, fabrication, assembling, erection, installing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, reconditioning, adjusting, altering and dismantling of all pipe or piping systems, or tubing systems, and parts, fixtures and appliances and appurtenances thereof, for all heating systems whether by steam, gas, hot water, vapor or any other method; ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration, cooling, power piping, industrial and mechanical process piping, sprinkler piping, temperature control systems or otherwise;

high and low pressure boilers, stokers, oil burning equipment, gas burning equipment, coal burning equipment, atomic power equipment, solar power equipment, pneumatic and hydraulic power piping and gasoline filling station piping, pipe and specialized welding, sewage disposal plant piping, central distributing and booster stations, filtration plants, sterilizing equipment, compressed air lines, vacuum lines, oxygen lines; and all apparatus and appurtenances in connection therewith for the transfer or conveyance of heat, fluids, solids, chemicals or gas used for manufacturing or industrial purposes by means of piping systems.

29. All piping systems and fixtures and appurtenances used to convey, collect or distribute steam, water, air, gas, exclusive of domestic and culinary use, coal, ash, dust, chemicals, vacuum, brine, ammonia, oil, or other commercial products manufactured, or in the course of manufacture, including cooling work of every description.

30. The setting of boiler fronts, the setting, installation and piping of all gauge boards, attaching of all pipe work and boiler trimmings. Soot blowers, fuel piping, valves, all circulating piping for appurtenances and component parts of boilers. The assembling and setting of economizers and superheaters when not component parts of boilers.

Assembling and setting of submerged heaters and the handling and setting of sectional steam, hot water and locomotive type of firebox boilers.

31. All piping used for fire quenching purposes either by water, steam, gas, chemicals or other method when not a part of an automatic sprinkler system.

32. The making of all pipe joints regardless of method or mode, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

15. All machines when used on the job in connection with any piping work shall be operated by a pipefitter and/or apprentice.

ARTICLE III

Management Rights

7. The management of the business is the sole and exclusive prerogative and responsibility of the Employer. This shall include but not be limited to the direction of the working force, the right to hire, to plan, direct, control and schedule all operations (including scheduling of the work force), the right to establish, eliminate, change or introduce new or improved methods, machinery, quality standards or facilities which are in the best interests of the trade. The Employer is vested with the right to discipline or to relieve any Employee from duty for just cause, or to lay off an Employee because of lack of work. The Employer is also vested with the right to promote, demote or transfer Employees in line with this Agreement.

8. The Union shall grant to all signatories to this Agreement any base rate, fringe benefit costs or working conditions for a particular job bid which may be extended or permitted to any company or Association which also bids on the particular job within the geographical jurisdiction of Local No. 602 and which may be more favorable to an Employer than those contained in this contract. The Union will report to the Association any base rate or fringes which are more favorable than those contained in this contract and which are granted to any Employer or company making a job bid within the jurisdiction of Local No. 602. National Agreements are not applicable.

9. The Union shall not sanction any Employee performing any heating, cooling or pipe work for other than his current Employer.

ARTICLE IV

Union Security

10. All Employees covered by this Agreement, members of the Union, now in the employ of any Contractor signatory hereto, shall remain members in good standing in the Union during the term of this Agreement. All Employees covered by this Agreement, hereinafter employed by any Contractor, shall become members of the Union on the eighth (8th) day following the beginning of such employment or the effective date of this Agreement, whichever is later, and shall remain members of the Union in good standing during the term of this Agreement. (This clause shall be effective only in those states permitting Union Security.)

11. If any Employee who is required, as a condition of continued employment by the Contractor to acquire and/or retain membership in good standing in the Union by the provisions of Paragraph 10 above, shall fail to do so by reason of a failure on his/her part to tender the periodic dues or initiation fees uniformly required as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership, and if the fact of such failure is certified to the Contractor by the Financial Secretary- Treasurer of the Union, the Contractor will thereupon notify such Employee that, unless he/she shall earlier correct such failure by the tender of all such dues and initiation fees that may then be due and owing, his/her employment by the Contractor will terminate as of the fifth (5th) day following the date of receipt of the certification if prior to such fifth (5th) day such failure shall not have been so corrected, the Contractor will thereupon cause such employment to terminate.

ARTICLE V

Working Rules for Journeymen

Pipefitters and Apprentices

12. No journeymen shall work more than one (1) apprentice unless approved by the Business Manager.

13. Cutting of all holes for pipe only to be done by pipefitter, apprentice, and or, mechanical helper.

14. Cutting of all pipe two (2) inches and under to be done by pipefitter and/or apprentice.

15. All machines when used on the job in connection with any piping work shall be operated by a pipefitter and/ orapprentice.

16. Journeyman pipefitter and/or apprentice shall make up fittings on all pipe.

17. Employees covered by this Agreement will be provided with a suitable heated area for the changing and storing of clothes.

18. Potable water shall be provided by the Employer for all Employees covered hereby, twelve (12) months a year, in work areas.

19. All Employer owned tools that require job site maintenance, used by pipefitters on job site, shall be repaired on job site by pipefitters.

20. Slow-downs, standby crews and featherbedding practices will not be permitted.

21. When work must be removed due to defective workmanship or carelessness by an Employee, or where any damage to the building or contents is the result of such defective workmanship or carelessness by an Employee, this must be immediately reported to the Conference Committee for investigation. Their decision in the matter is final.

Should the decision be rendered against the Employee to pay for the damage thus caused, the Employee must pay for the damage.

22. All protective equipment such as welding gloves, shields, sleeves, goggles, and other such types of special equipment, is to be supplied and replaced when required by the contractor. This issued equipment must be returned to the contractor at termination of employment.

23. In all shops where five (5) or more men are employed, every sixth (6th) man shall be fifty-five (55) years of age or older, if available, and provided he is physically fit.

24. The ratio for apprentices to journeyman shall be three (3) journeymen to one (1) apprentice based on the availability of the apprentices.

25. The Employer will assist in helping secure from the prime contractor sanitary conditions with regard to portable toilets. If the prime contractor fails to provide and maintain adequate portable toilets and as allowed by the prime contractor, the Employer will provide one (1) portable toilet for the first twenty (20) employees and two (2) portable toilets for employees numbering from twenty-one to forty (21-40) and so forth for each additional twenty (20) employees per construction site. Each will be provided with a combination lock to allow for exclusive safe use by the Employer’s employees.

26. The personal use of electronic devices (cell phones, pagers, MP3 players, boomboxes, IPods) during working hours is strictly prohibited except as qualified herein. (This prohibition applies to use on job sites, in pre-fab shops and in company vehicles.) Personal use of cell phones, pagers and texting devices during normal working hours is permitted in the case of an emergency. In addition, personal use of cell phones, pagers and texting devices is permitted during the break and lunch periods. Should a signatory contractor, customer or owner’s policy be more stringent than this Paragraph, those limitations on the use of electronic devices shall be in addition to these restrictions.

ARTICLE VI

Duties of Journeymen Pipefitters and Apprentices

27. All the following work and work tasks shall be assigned to and performed by journeymen pipefitters and apprentices subject, however, to the provisions of Paragraphs 49, 50 and 51 of this Article:

28. The handling, setting, moving, hanging, loading and unloading, laying out, fabrication, assembling, erection, installing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, reconditioning, adjusting, altering and dismantling of all pipe or piping systems, or tubing systems, and parts, fixtures and appliances and appurtenances thereof, for all heating systems whether by steam, gas, hot water, vapor or any other method; ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration, cooling, power piping, industrial and mechanical process piping, sprinkler piping, temperature control systems or otherwise;

high and low pressure boilers, stokers, oil burning equipment, gas burning equipment, coal burning equipment, atomic power equipment, solar power equipment, pneumatic and hydraulic power piping and gasoline filling station piping, pipe and specialized welding, sewage disposal plant piping, central distributing and booster stations, filtration plants, sterilizing equipment, compressed air lines, vacuum lines, oxygen lines; and all apparatus and appurtenances in connection therewith for the transfer or conveyance of heat, fluids, solids, chemicals or gas used for manufacturing or industrial purposes by means of piping systems.

29. All piping systems and fixtures and appurtenances used to convey, collect or distribute steam, water, air, gas, exclusive of domestic and culinary use, coal, ash, dust, chemicals, vacuum, brine, ammonia, oil, or other commercial products manufactured, or in the course of manufacture, including cooling work of every description.

30. The setting of boiler fronts, the setting, installation and piping of all gauge boards, attaching of all pipe work and boiler trimmings. Soot blowers, fuel piping, valves, all circulating piping for appurtenances and component parts of boilers. The assembling and setting of economizers and superheaters when not component parts of boilers.

Assembling and setting of submerged heaters and the handling and setting of sectional steam, hot water and locomotive type of firebox boilers.

31. All piping used for fire quenching purposes either by water, steam, gas, chemicals or other method when not a part of an automatic sprinkler system.

32. The making of all pipe joints regardless of method or mode, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

33. The handling and setting of completed heat exchangers, including convectors, unit heaters, fan coil units, heating and cooling room units, self-contained vessels or items of equipment with piping to and/or from same and the piping by any mode and description and any connected or related materials, apparatus and equipment for heat transfer purposes.

34. The setting, erecting, and adjustment of all control equipment used in connection with the pipefitting industry.

35. The unloading, reloading, distributing, handling and erection of all materials, and the installation of hangers, support and pipe railings applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

36. The cutting, threading, welding and fabrication of all pipe shall be done by journeymen pipefitters and apprentices, on the job site or in the shop of the contractor.

37. The setting and connecting of all vessels that are an integral part of piping systems, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

38. The disconnecting of all equipment on all alterations and remodeling work shall be the work of steamfitters and their apprentices. Any equipment and materials reused in the job shall be handled by journeymen pipefitters and their apprentices.

39. The cutting necessary of all types of construction for the receiving of all piping for the installation of setting of sleeves, inserts and thimbles for piping and hangers, boxes for hangers for piping, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

40. The fabricating, handling, erecting, adjusting, and servicing of all heating and/or cooling devices and their accessories.

41. Pre-fabrication. Those contractors who wish to fabricate piping systems in their own shop may do so provided the work is done by qualified journeymen pipefitters and their apprentices covered by this Agreement, and provided the shop is located in the jurisdiction of Local No. 602.

42. The handling, erecting, aligning and leveling of all refrigeration equipment and compressors; and pumps, air compressors, vacuum devices, etc., regardless of size, horsepower or mode or method of power delivered to same.

This includes turbines if delivered assembled.

43. The starting and stopping of all welding equipment applicable to pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

44. The handling, setting and leveling of all sluice grates.

45. The erection of all pipe supports, stanchions, hangers, and the field fabrication of same where required, and the handling and erection of hangers, braces, guides, etc., where used in conjunction with heating, refrigeration, or air conditioning materials and/or equipment. This does not include such small items as clevis hangers, forged hangers or other small hangers normally considered purchased items.

46. The unloading, uncrating, assembly and setting of all air conditioning and/or heating units regardless of make, size, tonnage, B.T.U. capacity, etc. This includes units that are shipped less coils, compressors, burners, controls, blowers, fans, condensers, pumps, etc.

47. The handling, assembling, and erecting of all coils, regardless of size, shape or method of making joints, hangers or erection.

48. Assembling and erection of all cooling towers for air conditioning and refrigeration equipment when prefabricated or shipped as a unit regardless of whether constructed of wood, metal, glass or any other prefabricated material.

49. Where heating, refrigeration or air conditioning materials and/or equipment used by the Employers are unloaded on job site from railroad cars or trucks, or where the above materials are distributed by smaller trucks from the above railroad cars or trucks to job, stockroom, or stockpile or from job stockroom, stockpile or fabricating shop to approximate point of use or installation, or from one job stockpile to another, such unloading, reloading and handling shall be assigned to and performed by Employees as covered herein, whether or not the work is performed by use of hand or power equipment. It is understood that the operation of power equipment controls shall be performed by the craft entitled thereto.

50. “Job stockroom,” “job fabricating shop” and “job stockpile” are defined to be that stockroom, shop or stockpile which is situated on the premises of the job site and which are used by Employees hereunder as a place to stock tools, plumbing, heating, refrigeration and/or air conditioning materials and/or equipment and all other equipment covered by this Agreement or to fabricate such materials, and/or equipment, and to stock such equipment which is to be moved directly from those sites to the approximate point of use or installation or to be moved from one stockpile to another on the job site.

51. All trucks used for the conveying of materials, equipment, tools or supplies between locations on a job site shall be assigned to and driven and operated by journeymen pipefitters and/or apprentices, and /or helpers.

52. Placing, installing and setting of all pipes and tanks and appurtenances in connection with the same in all types of industrial plants, used for the purpose of mixing, blending, compressing, heating, cooling or distilling. All pipes and appurtenances used in distilling or all products such as oil, gas, acids, chemicals, water, etc. All laboratory piping except domestic water and sewer connections.

53. The testing of all air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating systems, equipment and appurtenances, and process piping indigenous to the above shall be performed by Employees herein.

54. All gas piping for manufacturing, heating and cooling.

55. Any work not covered or described in this Agreement, but traditionally or normally done by Employees covered by this Agreement shall continue to be assigned to the Employees as if actually set forth in this Agreement, together with all other work as may be determined to be within the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

56. Coordinated drawings where necessary for work covered by this Agreement may be performed by Employees covered by this Agreement.

57. Pipe labeling and valve tagging will be performed by Employees covered by this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

Work Jurisdiction

58. Appendix A (in back of Agreement) becomes a part of this Agreement.

59. The Union agrees that jurisdictional disputes between locals affiliated with the U.A. shall not be a cause for work stoppage. In the event that any of the work as herein shown to be assigned to the pipefitter is claimed by the plumber, then the dispute will immediately be submitted to the appropriate U.A. officials for their determination, which shall be final and binding on all parties.

60. Subject to the approval of the Business Manager of U.A. Local Union No. 5 and U.A. Local Union No. 602 there shall be no jurisdictional consideration for the work assigned on jobs to members of Local Union No. 602 and Local Union No. 5 for the installation of plumbing or heating work.

ARTICLE VIII

Jurisdictional Awards Board and

International Agreements

61. Subject to the provisions herein, all jurisdictional disputes not resolved by the parties shall be submitted for final and binding arbitration to the Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes for the Construction Industry (hereinafter “Plan”), or any successor thereto adopted by the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and participating Employers. Provided that all unions involved in such jurisdictional dispute and all Employers with whom those unions have collective bargaining agreements have also submitted to the jurisdiction of, and have agreed to be bound by all decisions of the Plan when those Employers are involved in a jurisdiction dispute.

In the event any union claiming work jurisdiction from an Employer signatory to this Agreement, has a collective bargaining agreement with any Employer which does not provide for settlement of jurisdictional disputes by the Plan, then the parties to this Agreement shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of or be bound by decisions of the Plan involving such unions. In the event the above proviso is complied with, the parties hereto agree to and accept, and shall be bound by, the rules, regulations and procedures of the Plan or its successor as in effect from time to time.

ARTICLE IX

Conflict of Interest

62. All contractors bound by this Agreement agree that during the life of this Agreement that any and all heating, piping, air conditioning and refrigeration work of any kind and description performed solely by them or by and through any other corporation, firm, partnership or joint business association with other individuals primarily in building and construction work in which the contractor owns a financial or proprietary interest, shall be done and performed under the terms of this Agreement. A breach of this provision by any contractor shall be sufficient ground for the Union to cancel this contract as to said contractor by serving thirty (30) days written notice upon the Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc. and the contractor involved.

33. The handling and setting of completed heat exchangers, including convectors, unit heaters, fan coil units, heating and cooling room units, self-contained vessels or items of equipment with piping to and/or from same and the piping by any mode and description and any connected or related materials, apparatus and equipment for heat transfer purposes.

34. The setting, erecting, and adjustment of all control equipment used in connection with the pipefitting industry.

35. The unloading, reloading, distributing, handling and erection of all materials, and the installation of hangers, support and pipe railings applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

36. The cutting, threading, welding and fabrication of all pipe shall be done by journeymen pipefitters and apprentices, on the job site or in the shop of the contractor.

37. The setting and connecting of all vessels that are an integral part of piping systems, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

38. The disconnecting of all equipment on all alterations and remodeling work shall be the work of steamfitters and their apprentices. Any equipment and materials reused in the job shall be handled by journeymen pipefitters and their apprentices.

39. The cutting necessary of all types of construction for the receiving of all piping for the installation of setting of sleeves, inserts and thimbles for piping and hangers, boxes for hangers for piping, applicable to the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

40. The fabricating, handling, erecting, adjusting, and servicing of all heating and/or cooling devices and their accessories.

41. Pre-fabrication. Those contractors who wish to fabricate piping systems in their own shop may do so provided the work is done by qualified journeymen pipefitters and their apprentices covered by this Agreement, and provided the shop is located in the jurisdiction of Local No. 602.

42. The handling, erecting, aligning and leveling of all refrigeration equipment and compressors; and pumps, air compressors, vacuum devices, etc., regardless of size, horsepower or mode or method of power delivered to same.

This includes turbines if delivered assembled.

43. The starting and stopping of all welding equipment applicable to pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

44. The handling, setting and leveling of all sluice grates.

45. The erection of all pipe supports, stanchions, hangers, and the field fabrication of same where required, and the handling and erection of hangers, braces, guides, etc., where used in conjunction with heating, refrigeration, or air conditioning materials and/or equipment. This does not include such small items as clevis hangers, forged hangers or other small hangers normally considered purchased items.

46. The unloading, uncrating, assembly and setting of all air conditioning and/or heating units regardless of make, size, tonnage, B.T.U. capacity, etc. This includes units that are shipped less coils, compressors, burners, controls, blowers, fans, condensers, pumps, etc.

47. The handling, assembling, and erecting of all coils, regardless of size, shape or method of making joints, hangers or erection.

48. Assembling and erection of all cooling towers for air conditioning and refrigeration equipment when prefabricated or shipped as a unit regardless of whether constructed of wood, metal, glass or any other prefabricated material.

49. Where heating, refrigeration or air conditioning materials and/or equipment used by the Employers are unloaded on job site from railroad cars or trucks, or where the above materials are distributed by smaller trucks from the above railroad cars or trucks to job, stockroom, or stockpile or from job stockroom, stockpile or fabricating shop to approximate point of use or installation, or from one job stockpile to another, such unloading, reloading and handling shall be assigned to and performed by Employees as covered herein, whether or not the work is performed by use of hand or power equipment. It is understood that the operation of power equipment controls shall be performed by the craft entitled thereto.

50. “Job stockroom,” “job fabricating shop” and “job stockpile” are defined to be that stockroom, shop or stockpile which is situated on the premises of the job site and which are used by Employees hereunder as a place to stock tools, plumbing, heating, refrigeration and/or air conditioning materials and/or equipment and all other equipment covered by this Agreement or to fabricate such materials, and/or equipment, and to stock such equipment which is to be moved directly from those sites to the approximate point of use or installation or to be moved from one stockpile to another on the job site.

51. All trucks used for the conveying of materials, equipment, tools or supplies between locations on a job site shall be assigned to and driven and operated by journeymen pipefitters and/or apprentices, and /or helpers.

52. Placing, installing and setting of all pipes and tanks and appurtenances in connection with the same in all types of industrial plants, used for the purpose of mixing, blending, compressing, heating, cooling or distilling. All pipes and appurtenances used in distilling or all products such as oil, gas, acids, chemicals, water, etc. All laboratory piping except domestic water and sewer connections.

53. The testing of all air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating systems, equipment and appurtenances, and process piping indigenous to the above shall be performed by Employees herein.

54. All gas piping for manufacturing, heating and cooling.

55. Any work not covered or described in this Agreement, but traditionally or normally done by Employees covered by this Agreement shall continue to be assigned to the Employees as if actually set forth in this Agreement, together with all other work as may be determined to be within the pipefitters’ jurisdiction.

56. Coordinated drawings where necessary for work covered by this Agreement may be performed by Employees covered by this Agreement.

57. Pipe labeling and valve tagging will be performed by Employees covered by this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

Work Jurisdiction

58. Appendix A (in back of Agreement) becomes a part of this Agreement.

59. The Union agrees that jurisdictional disputes between locals affiliated with the U.A. shall not be a cause for work stoppage. In the event that any of the work as herein shown to be assigned to the pipefitter is claimed by the plumber, then the dispute will immediately be submitted to the appropriate U.A. officials for their determination, which shall be final and binding on all parties.

60. Subject to the approval of the Business Manager of U.A. Local Union No. 5 and U.A. Local Union No. 602 there shall be no jurisdictional consideration for the work assigned on jobs to members of Local Union No. 602 and Local Union No. 5 for the installation of plumbing or heating work.

ARTICLE VIII

Jurisdictional Awards Board and

International Agreements

61. Subject to the provisions herein, all jurisdictional disputes not resolved by the parties shall be submitted for final and binding arbitration to the Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes for the Construction Industry (hereinafter “Plan”), or any successor thereto adopted by the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and participating Employers. Provided that all unions involved in such jurisdictional dispute and all Employers with whom those unions have collective bargaining agreements have also submitted to the jurisdiction of, and have agreed to be bound by all decisions of the Plan when those Employers are involved in a jurisdiction dispute.

In the event any union claiming work jurisdiction from an Employer signatory to this Agreement, has a collective bargaining agreement with any Employer which does not provide for settlement of jurisdictional disputes by the Plan, then the parties to this Agreement shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of or be bound by decisions of the Plan involving such unions. In the event the above proviso is complied with, the parties hereto agree to and accept, and shall be bound by, the rules, regulations and procedures of the Plan or its successor as in effect from time to time.

ARTICLE IX

Conflict of Interest

62. All contractors bound by this Agreement agree that during the life of this Agreement that any and all heating, piping, air conditioning and refrigeration work of any kind and description performed solely by them or by and through any other corporation, firm, partnership or joint business association with other individuals primarily in building and construction work in which the contractor owns a financial or proprietary interest, shall be done and performed under the terms of this Agreement. A breach of this provision by any contractor shall be sufficient ground for the Union to cancel this contract as to said contractor by serving thirty (30) days written notice upon the Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc. and the contractor involved.

ARTICLE X

Tools

63. Each journeyman so designated shall be issued a set of hand tools, with a suitable box that can be securely locked by key or combination. The keys to this lock shall become the sole responsibility of the journeyman to whom issued and the set of keys so issued to each Employee shall be different so that one set of keys cannot be used to open any other tool box. Each kit of tools so issued shall contain a typed list with unit prices placed in the box so that the value of the tools will be known and will thereby establish the price for replacement of lost or otherwise misplaced tools. A duplicate of the list shall be issued to the foreman on the job. The issued tools, box, lock, keys, etc., shall be returned to the contractor intact at termination of employment. In the event that any issued tools are not returned intact to the Employer the Employee shall be required to replace same.