NJ_Carpenter_CBA_2022-27.pdf

AGREEMENT

by and between

EASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL

OF CARPENTERS

of the UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA

ASSOCIATED CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS

OF NEW JERSEY

and their affiliates

DRYWALL & INTERIOR SYSTEMS CONTRACTORS

ASSOCIATION, INC. OF NEW JERSEY

CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS LABOR EMPLOYERS

EFFECTIVE

May 1, 2022 – April 30, 2027

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Article

Article No. Page No.

Accident or Sickness XXXVIII 37 Agreement 2 Agreement and Termination XLV 45 Authority of Employer's Association II 3 Call Out Pay XXXIX 37 Continuing Education & Training XLIV 45 Federal and State Law Conflicts V 4 Foreman Carpenters & Millwrights XXX 31 Fringe Benefit Funds XXXII 32 Furnishing of Tools XII 16 General Working Conditions/Loss of Tools XXII 25 Grievances and Arbitration XVIII 21 Individual Employee Rights XXVII 29 Industry, Training, Safety and Advancement Funds XXXIII 33 Joint Committee III 3 Jurisdictional Settlement Procedure XI 15 Label XXIX 31 Lay-Off XXV 27 Layout Work XXXV 34 Market Share Expansion Addendum XXXI 32 Miscellaneous XXXVI 35 More Favorable Conditions XIII 16 No Other Verbal Agreements XLIII 44 Non-Discrimination VII 5 Payment of Wages and Fringes XXIV 27 Picket Line XXXVII 36 Portability XVI 19 Recognition I 2 Recognition of Floor Laying and Finishing XLII 40 Recognition of Heavy and Highway Work Covered XL 37 Recognition of Interior Systems Work Covered XLI 39 Referral Procedure VI 5 Safety Regulations XXXIV 34 Shift Work XXI 23 Shop Steward XIV 17 Subcontractor Clause XIX 22 Territorial Jurisdiction VIII 5 Trade Autonomy IX 6 Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance Coverage XX 22 Union Security IV 4 Union's Right to Strike Delinquent Employers XXVI 28 Visitation by Business Representative XVII 21 Wages and Fringe Benefits XXVIII 29 Work Jurisdiction X 6 Work Rules XV 17 Working Hours and Holidays XXIII 25

AGREEMENT:

WHEREAS, the Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey (ACCNJ) and its affiliated associations, Drywall & Interior Systems Contractors of New Jersey (DISCA) and the Construction Contractors Labor Employers (CCLE), is acting as the authorized bargaining agent for its employer-members who have assigned their bargaining rights to their respective Association, (hereinafter referred to as the “Association”), and any independent contractor signatory hereto, in the matter of wages, hours of work, and all other working conditions; and

WHEREAS, the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters (EASRC) of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (EMRC) (hereinafter referred to as the "Union"), are the authorized bargaining agent for all classes of employees performing work within the work jurisdiction of the United Brotherhood within the territory covered by this Agreement;

and

WHEREAS, the Association and the Union have arrived at an Agreement on the issues to be incorporated within this Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein expressed, BE IT

AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

ARTICLE I

RECOGNITION:

1. The Association recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for all

Journeymen Carpenters, Millwrights and Lathers and all of their apprentices, trainees and foremen, hereinafter referred to as employees, who perform work within the trade-line jurisdiction of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in the matters of wages, hours of work, and all other working conditions excluding, however, all supervisors as defined by the Labor- Management Relations Act of 1947, as amended.

2. Each Employer bound hereto also agrees to comply with the wage rates, fringes, and working conditions in effect in the territories of all carpenter and millwright regions within the territories of the Union, affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America.

3. All contractor/union agreements shall be in accordance with all terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement currently in place in any local jurisdiction and for full term of said agreement.

4. The Contractor acknowledges that the Union has demonstrated that the Union has majority support and represents a majority of the Contractor’s employees in an appropriate unit for the purpose of collective bargaining. Accordingly, the Union demands, and the Contractor recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent under Section 9 of the NLRA for all of its employees within the contractual bargaining unit.

ARTICLE II

AUTHORITY OF EMPLOYER'S ASSOCIATION:

1. The Association is acting herein as bargaining agent for its present and future employer-members of the Association and all affiliated local Associations in the State. The Association represents that it has the authority to execute this agreement on behalf of its members, who have assigned their bargaining rights to the Association, through the Associations' designated officers. Periodically, the Association shall provide the Union an up-to-date written list of all its employer-members, including affiliated Associations, who have assigned their bargaining rights to the Association, together with any deletions or additions in the roll of members. The Association represents that it will obtain like authority to bind future members to this Agreement.

2. In the event any employer-member of the Association, who has assigned their bargaining rights to the Association, resigns from membership in the Association during the existence of this collective bargaining agreement, it shall nevertheless be bound by all the provisions herein for the existence of this agreement.

3. The Union recognizes the Association as the bargaining representative of all affiliated Associations and general members of the Association, that have assigned their bargaining rights to the Association, that perform work within the trade-line jurisdiction of the United Brotherhood. This agreement shall be binding upon and enforceable against all such members, including their successors, assigns, and wholly or partly owned subsidiaries.

4. The Association represents that it is duly authorized by its members and affiliated local Associations, who have assigned their bargaining rights to the Association, to enter into this collective bargaining agreement, that in so doing it is authorized to bind each of such members to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and represents further, that it will require, as a condition of membership in said Association, that all of its participating members shall continue to be bound by such terms or, shall upon admission to the said Association, after the date of execution of this Agreement, agree to be bound from that date forward by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

JOINT COMMITTEE:

A joint labor/management committee “Joint Committee”, consisting of two representatives appointed by the Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey (ACCNJ) and its affiliated Associations and two representatives appointed by the Drywall & Interior Systems Contractors of New Jersey (DISCA), along with four representatives appointed by the Executive Secretary/ Treasurer of the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters (EASRC) shall be formed to address contract issues which do not involve millwright work and meet on a quarterly basis and, if necessary, at the call of the Co-Chairs of said committee. By unanimous agreement, the Joint Committee shall have the authority to implement contract changes within the term of this agreement. The Joint Committee shall address jurisdictional issues that arise during the term of this agreement. By unanimous agreement, the Joint Committee shall have the authority to negotiate terms and conditions of a residential agreement.

ARTICLE IV

UNION SECURITY:

1. All employees who are present members of the Union shall maintain their membership in good standing in the Union in order to continue in employment. All new employees, on the eighth (8th) day following the beginning of their employment or the execution date of this Agreement or the effective date of this agreement, whichever is the later, shall become and remain members in good standing of the Union in order to continue in employment, all to be applied and enforced in accordance with the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as infringing upon the Union's right as expressed in Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act as amended to prescribe its own rules with respect to the acquisition and retention of membership therein.

2. Eight (8) days under this Article shall mean employment within the bargaining unit for a period of eight (8) days, either continuously with one employer or accumulative with any employers’ signatory to this Agreement.

3. In the event that the present provisions of the National Labor Relations Act are amended so as to permit a greater degree of Union security than that now permitted by Section 8(a) (3) thereof, said amendments shall immediately, upon their effective date, be considered to be an integral part of this Agreement as if fully set forth herein.

4. In the event an employee fails to tender the initiation fee or fails to maintain membership in good standing, the Union shall notify the Employer, in writing, and such notice shall constitute a request to the Employer to discharge said employee within forty-eight (48) hours (Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays excluded) for failure to maintain continuous good standing in the Union, as set forth herein. The Employer then shall discharge such employee at the end of such period. In the event the Union does not accept into membership any employee tendering the initiation fee and regular monthly dues, the foregoing shall not be applicable; provided, however, that the Union may, at any time thereafter, decide to take such employee into membership, and if so, the employee then shall be required to tender the full and uniform initiation fee in effect in the Union not later than thirty (30) days following notification by the Union, and shall be required thereafter to maintain membership in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing. In the event that such employee fails to comply with these provisions, the Union shall notify the Employer, in writing, and the Employer shall discharge such employee within forty-eight (48) hours.

5. In consideration of the foregoing, the Union agrees to furnish competent employees to the employer upon his request.

ARTICLE V

FEDERAL AND STATE LAW CONFLICTS:

Where any provision of this collective bargaining agreement or the application of such provisions to any person, thing, or circumstances shall be in conflict with any federal or state laws or regulations or where such provision or the applications thereof shall be held invalid or unenforceable by a Court of Law or Equity or by any administrative governmental agency having jurisdiction over the subject matter, such decision as to the invalid provision shall not affect the balance of this Agreement which shall remain in full force and effect. The parties hereto agree that they will meet within ten (10) days after such provisions have been declared invalid and negotiate a substitute provision to be incorporated herein.

ARTICLE VI

REFERRAL PROCEDURE:

Not excluding the provisions provided for in Article XVI-Portability, the Employer agrees to give the territorial Carpenters Local Union hiring hall first opportunity to furnish competent and qualified journeymen and apprentices upon the Employer’s request and the Carpenters Local Union agrees to supply such craftworkers. When the Carpenters Local Union does not furnish qualified employees within 48 hours (Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays excluded), the contractor shall be free to obtain employees from any Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenter Local Union. All referrals for millwrights shall be made through Millwright Local 715 in accordance with the referral procedures.

ARTICLE VII

NON-DISCRIMINATION:

1. The Union and the Employer agree to abide by all Executive Orders and subsequent amendments thereto, regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, pertaining to non-discrimination in employment, in every respect, subject however to the rights of the parties to contest the illegality of any such Orders or Amendments in a court of law.

2. Whenever an imposed minority hiring plan or a voluntary hiring plan shall provide for the employment of trainees, they shall be employed subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement to the extent that such minority hiring plan shall permit.

3. The Association agrees to cooperate with the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters (EASRC) in the development and implementation of uniform procedures for meeting requirements of minority hiring plans on a statewide or regional basis so as to eliminate the multiplicity of conflicting plans now being developed on a job-by-job basis. Nothing herein shall preclude either party from participating in a voluntary plan, nor shall anything herein require either party to enter into a voluntary plan.

ARTICLE VIII

TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION:

This Agreement shall cover the entire Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of

Carpenters (EASRC) in New Jersey and its member Local Unions comprised of the following Regions:

Local 251: Floorlayers - Council wide Local 715: Statewide Local 253: Commercial – Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic Counties Local 254: Commercial – Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Union, Warren Counties and Parts of Essex County (Short Hills and Millburn)

Local 255: Commercial – Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem Counties

ARTICLE IX

TRADE AUTONOMY:

1. The trade autonomy of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of

America consists of the milling, fashioning, joining, assembling, erecting, fastening or dismantling of all material of wood, plastic, metal, fiber, cork and composition and all other substitute materials. The handling, erecting, installing and dismantling of machinery and equipment and the manufacturing of all materials where the skill, knowledge and training of the employees are required, either through the operation of machine or hand tools, either at the job site or in production shops, mills and factories.

2. Our claim of jurisdiction, therefore, extends over the following divisions and sub-divisions of the trade: Carpenters and Joiners; Lathers; Millwrights; Pile Drivers, Bridge, Dock and Wharf Carpenters; Divers, Underpinners, Timbermen and Core Drillers; Shipwrights, Boat Builders, Ship Carpenters, Joiners and Caulkers; Cabinet Makers, Bench Hands, Stair Builders and Mill-men; Wood and Resilient Floor Layers and Finishers; Carpet Layers; Display Workers;

Shinglers, Siders and Insulators; Acoustic and Drywall Applicators and Finishers; Shorers and House Movers; Loggers, Lumber and Sawmill Workers; Furniture Workers, Reed and Ratan Workers; Shingle Weavers; Casket and Coffin Makers; Box Makers, Railroad Carpenters and Car Builders and all those engaged in the operating of wood working or other machinery required in the fashioning, milling or manufacturing of products used in the trade, or engaged as helpers or tenders to any of the above divisions or sub-divisions.

3. Burning, welding, rigging and the use of any instruments or tools for layout work, incidental to the trade.

4. When the term "Carpenter and Joiner" is used, it shall mean all sub-divisions of the trade.

ARTICLE X

WORK JURISDICTION:

The Association recognizes that the Union claims the following work jurisdiction:

The terms "carpenters" and "joiners" shall be synonymous.

A. Carpenter

1. The prefabrication, fabrication and construction of forms for footings or foundations of houses, buildings structures of all descriptions, whether made of wood, plastic or any other material, the erecting of structural parts of a house, building or structure made of wood, precast concrete or any substitute such as plastics, or composition materials, putting together roofs, partitions, fabricating or erecting forms for decking or other structural parts of houses, buildings, or any structure and stripping and dismantling of all forms, whether the product being stripped is reused on site or not. Installation of steel bar joist, metal decking and pour stops on all floor systems including composite. The fabrication, erecting and dismantling of all falsework. Where power is used for the setting or dismantling of forms or any other material erected by Carpenters, the Carpenter will do all handling, tagging and signaling. The fabrication and/or setting of all templates including anchor bolts necessary for structural members or machinery and the placing and/or leveling of these bolts is included. The installation and removal of all safety or weather protection, whether temporary or permanent, also the erection and dismantling of all shanties, including tarps or tents of all materials, and building of platforms, runways, catwalks and elevator shafts, whether temporary or permanent.

2. The handling, carrying, loading, unloading and conveying of all materials erected or installed by employees represented by the UBC.

3. The shoring of banks, slopes, holes, including the driving of sheeting in areas where

Carpenters perform work.

4. All framing in connection with the setting of metal columns. The setting of all forms, centers, imbedded wood and bulkheads of any type of material including expanding metal;

the fabrication and setting of screeds and stakes for concrete and mastic floors where the screed is notched or fitted or moulded or made up of more than one member and the setting of all screed and forms pertaining to slope protection. Setting, assembly and maintenance of screed machines and lining and leveling of the track. The making and setting of all forms used in concrete work.

The handling, installing and stripping of adjustable bar or span-all joists.

5. The installation of all louvres and all moulding, column-covers and trim made of wood, metal, plastic or composition, installing of run-strips for plumbers or other trade or cutting for pipes through floors, joists or partitions composed entirely or in part of wood or other material erected by Carpenters. The installation of all framework, partitions and trim, materials for toilets and bathrooms made of wood, metal or plastic or composition materials; bathroom partitions, accessories and their backing made of wood, plastic, metal or any other material; fastening on all wooden, plastic or composition cleats to iron work or any other material; the erecting and installation of stran steel or similar material; cutting and hanging all lumber or other material between girders and joists for fire proofing or concrete centers; setting and hanging of all sash, doors, inside and outside blinds, windows and other frames; erection or application of all shingles, standing seam roofs and all other types of architectural metal building applications including roofs, vertical seam steel siding, aluminum siding, siding wallboard, or sheets composed of wood pulp, plastic, plaster, transite or composition materials or any combination of any of the above with any other material including combined or faced with metal regardless of the manner attached; the erection and assembly of interior and exterior signs or displays of all types; set up and dismantle of all displays, signs, banners, kiosks and tents whether temporary or permanent; unloading, handling and erection of all wood, metal, plastic and composition partitions; cutting and applying of all furring; making and fastening of wood brackets for metal ceilings and side walls; erecting of all furring regardless of composition, and putting on all grounds for plaster or cement finish.

6. The building, erection and dismantling of all staging and scaffolding regardless of height where carpenters shall perform work thereon, including all types of protection and work platforms utilized for any part of the industry, whether wooden, tubular, mobile, stationary or otherwise, including "Morgan" type scaffolding and other self-rising scaffolding; the maintenance, repair and jacking of all mechanical scaffolding such as "Morgan" scaffolding including installation, maintenance and dismantling of bridge brackets and catch plank; the building and constructing of all derricks; the erection and dismantling of elevators and towers, such as concrete conveyors and temporary material elevators, scaffolding or other structures to be used as scaffolding inside or outside buildings, the making of mortar boards, boxes and trestles; putting in needle uprights; all shoring of buildings, razing and moving buildings whether commercial or residential, jacking and lifting. Installation of all work related to boardwalks and all related components.

7. Fitting, installation and fastening of stops, beads and molding in doors and windows; framing of all false work, derricks and hoists, travelers and all lumber or material used in the building and construction industry; putting on of all hardware; putting up interior and exterior trim or finish of wood or substitute material. The hanging, setting and installation of wood, metal or plastic doors, including but not limited to fire, formica, overhead and security doors, sash, jambs, bucks, including freestanding bucks, casings, moldings, chair rails, mantels base or mop boards wainscoting furniture, china closets, kitchen cabinets, serving counters, booths, wardrobes, non-electrical bells, mail slots, interviewers, knockers, louvers, kickplates and installation of bowling alleys, and installation of displays; setting of vanities of all types with or without fixtures, all lockers, regardless of their composition.

8. The manufacturing and erecting of cooling towers, refrigeration buildings and rooms, sauna baths and tanks. The erection and installation of all hospital and laboratory Clean Rooms and associated equipment & accessories and all other work associated with Infectious Control Risk Assessment (ICRA). The installation of wood, plastic or metal awnings, door shelters, marquees, jalousies and plastic roofs. The laying and finishing of all floors including wood, knitter house floor tile or liquid substances for floor tile, cork, asphalt, linoleum, vinyl, rubber, liquid, Astroturf type covering and other synthetic turf products or any other type of resilient floor covering, the preparation of various floors for receiving any of said types of flooring or covering. Installation of elevated and floating floors. The installation of rugs, carpets, draperies, tracks, cubicles and curtains. The application of acoustic tile whether glued or nailed; acoustical suspended ceilings in their entirety; installation of Armstrong and/or other brands of low voltage ceiling grid systems; and all insulation of all types including bats or blankets, whether rigid or otherwise, whether nailed, glued or blown. The installation of all premanufactured walls, assemblies and Head Panels associated with all facilities.

9. Building, handling, installing, unloading and erecting stairs, store, office, bank and other fixtures, furniture, wrapped, bundled, crated or not, refrigeration cases, whether for display or otherwise and walk-in boxes, shelving, racks whether of wood or other material; making and fitting of screens; putting on weather strips and caulking. The installation of laboratory equipment including cabinets and overhead air handling units, fume hoods, alberene stone tops, sills and work benches, including Alucibond panels and terra cotta rain screen and any component of a total envelope system whether wood or metal, medicine cabinets with or without mirrors, or electrical fixtures, bookcases, including Nesbitt type bookcases, fume cabinets, and cabinets either separately or used in conjunction with heating and / or air conditioning units, blackboards, bulletin boards, billboards, meter boards and boards of all types including all layout, drilling and fastening related to the installation of these products. The receiving, unloading, handling, installation, erection and dismantling for re-use of all seating facilities.

10. The handling and installation of lumber, fixtures, trim and other material including exterior and interior metal studs, drywall and gypsum wallboard of all types, regardless of finish.

Drywall taping and finishing. The erection of porcelain enameled panels, glass-weld type panels, wood, Masonite, corespan and transite type and metal siding. The assembling and setting of all seats in theaters, halls, churches, schools, banks, stadiums and open-air theaters and other buildings; installing wood, metal, plastic, corner beads, gypsum, tectum or similar planking and any material which receives poured gypsum; erecting mortar and brick hoists and concrete distributors used in erecting buildings or fireproofing floors or for pouring concrete buildings, building and repairing coal pockets, breakers, washers, tripples; setting of forms for sidewalks, sidewalk lights, curbs within property lines and on highway structures, utility vaults within the property lines, gutters; erection and installation of hampers, trash, garbage, laundry or mail chutes regardless of composition of material and all welding and burning incidental to carpentry. Setting and welding of armor joints, expansion joints, or any other imbedded item. The installation of cork, Styrofoam, urethane, foam-glass or any other form of insulation material used in construction of walk-in boxes, refrigerators, freezers, coolers, foundations and all interior and exterior sidewalls, roofs and ceilings, etc. and the installation of doors thereto.

11. All fitting, mortising or boring of holes for hardware on doors must be done on the job site, except pre-finished doors, metal doors, specially finished doors or when otherwise required by Architects specifications.

12. The operation of winches and jacks whether operated manually or operated mechanically by portable operating devices, used to handle material to be installed or erected by carpenters and all tagging and signaling incidental to the trade.

13. The handling and installation of all prefabricated, precut and modular structures, pre-engineered buildings, regardless of composition. The erection, disassembling and repair of metal, wood, or plastic forms for modular units. The handling and installation of all wood, vinyl or composite fencing, pre-manufactured playground equipment, all types of athletic equipment regardless of composition.

14. The maintenance and operation of small generators, welding equipment, gas operated saws, electric saws, skill saws and other portable equipment used by carpenters in the performance of their work. Maintain shall mean starting, stopping, oiling, greasing, gassing, handling and sharpening, if done on the job site and when requested by the employer, repairs on the jobsite.

15. All work in relation to the installation of Photovoltaic Energy Systems (Solar Panels), Wind energy, Windmills/Turbines and all energy related technologies, switch yards, converter stations, substations, storage facilities to include the following but not limited to:

Loading, unloading, handling, maintenance, layout, pile, foundations, anchor-bolts, supports, brackets, pans, racks, positioning motors, windmills and turbines, counterweights and supporting structures of any kind regardless of material or design.

All rigging, setting prefabrication, fastening, welding, bolting in relation to these systems, whether built on land, flat roofs, pitched roofs, on water or any other application.

When systems are mounted on motorized frames designed to be directed towards sunlight, the motorized systems will be the work of the millwright.

16. Any change in technology or materials that replaces an application that falls under carpenter or millwright jurisdiction shall be deemed the work of the carpenter or millwright.

17. Slot Machines-Transport & movement, Bolting & unbolting, drilling of holes, mounting of bill changers, Repair & installation of plastic laminate, Installation of top sections & additions, Installation & removal of all slot machines including slant tops and novelty machines.

Slot Machine Bases-Transportation & movement, fastening together, drilling of holes, Cutting, altering, repair & modification, Installation of filler pieces, Repair & installation of laminate and corner guards, Installation & removal of all slot machine bases. Gaming Tables and Furniture- Transportation & movement, Assembly & disassembly, Cutting, alteration, repair & modification, Installation of all gaming tables and furniture, Repair and installation of laminates, upholstery and fabrics, Installation & removal of all gaming tables and furniture, including but not limited to Black Jack, Roulette, Pia Gow, Poker, Baccarat, Mini Baccarat, Big Six Wheel Tables, Caribbean Stud, etc., including all stools & chairs, etc. that accompany gaming tables. All pit stands and related furniture accessories. Figurines, Statues, Ornaments, Artifacts, Wall Hangings and Ornamentations-Transportation & movement, Assembly & disassembly, Installation & removal, Cutting, alterations, repair & modification, The building and fabrication of all landscaping items, e.g. rock scapes, trees & etc.

18. Unloading and Installation of all products that have a UL or other outside testing agency approval.

B. Millwright

The term “Millwright” and Machinery Erectors shall mean the unloading, hoisting, rigging by any means, transferring, moving, cleaning, disassembling, assembling, welding, burning, erecting, calibrating, aligning, starting-up and testing, adjusting, repairing, and the maintaining of all machinery and equipment, be it powered by, or receiving power from, steam, gas, gasoline, diesel, jet, electric, pneumatic, water, solar, thermal, mineral, atomic, rocket, nuclear, chemical, wind or any other source, regardless whether temporarily or permanently installed or located and shall also include the following work:

Although some components of machinery and/or equipment may be described in one application or location and not in another, it shall not be excluded from our autonomy when, to avoid repetition, it is not described in other applications, any change in technology or materials that replace an application that falls under Millwright jurisdiction shall be deemed the work of the Millwrights.

Some of the locations in which you may find machinery, equipment and their components are:

woodworking, canning, food, and computer industries, steel, metal, plastic, and glass manufacturing or recycling plants, foundries, ore reduction plants, stamping facilities, coffee roasting plants, paper, cellophane and film industries, feed and saw mills, rock, gravel, sand washing, stone crushing, cement and asphalt plants, water, sewage and chemical treatment plants, laundries, kitchens, restaurants, hospitals, bakeries, fertilizing and mixing plants, can, ice, bottle and bag manufacturing plants, textile, flour, and paint mills, breweries, milk, rendering and meat processing plants, locks, dams and bridges, coal yards, sugar refineries, ethanol or similar type facilities, bio-mass facilities, cosmetic facilities, pharmaceutical facilities, post offices, package handling centers, incinerators, co-generation, coal gasification and power plants, automotive, truck and or similar manufacturing type factories, maintenance facilities for cars, trucks, trains, planes, buses, bio-research facilities, the amusement, recreational and entertainment fields, semi-conductor plants, clean rooms and wind farms, all mechanical equipment on submarines and ships either assembled, semi assembled, disassembled or maintenance of is the work of the Millwright.

1. Unloading, hoisting, rigging, dismantling, processing, erecting, assembling, cleaning lining, aligning and adjusting of all machinery used in the transmission of power, in building factories, or elsewhere, shafting, bangers, gears, sprockets and chains, belting and all other drives necessary to the transmission of power, truck bumpers, telescopic seals at truck terminals, load levers and Kelly type docks.

2. Millwrights shall set all engines, motors, dynamos, generators, diesel generators, motor restraints, install, measure and align with optical instruments when necessary the reactors, control, push and shut-down rods, rod pressure housing, drives, guide sleeves and other related equipment in reactors, turbines, castings, combustion chambers and all its related components, the attachment of the inlet manifolds and exhaust ducts, cylinders, diaphragms, rotors, blade rings, blade or bucket assemblies, hydrogen coolers, blower assembles, packing joints on hydrogen coolers, exciter or Alterex and all others, turning gear, extension box, welding of extension box, lagging, stretching of coupling bolts or others, perform oil flush, install turbine lube oil tank, pumps and related component skids, filters, thrust bearings, the sweating on and shrinking of bearings, couplings, shafts and others, sole plates and machine bases, perform precision grouting integral to the setting of machinery, using the following materials, epoxy, wet, non-shrink, dri-packing or other types, demineralizing, hydromation and mechanical dust systems, sensors, air compressors, super chargers, coolers, boiler controls and linkage, Bailey Meters or similar devices and their linkages, fluid drives, embedded guides for traveling screens, traveling screens, roller, slide, knife, lock and sluice gates, limit torques on mechanical valves, gates and others, tainter valves, limit switches, trips, triggers or switches including the brackets that are attached to, stop logs, dam rollers, transfer cars, gear head motors, lifts, guns and gun mounts, the skidding and unskidding and crating and of all machines, shall be the work of the Millwrights.

Setting of all motors and pumps and putting on all pulleys, sheaves and flywheels for same;

and setting of all worm or gear drives directly coupled to motors; and the making and setting of all templates and any re-work of the above either on site or the removal of pumps for rework off site.

3. All coal handling machines and drives; crushers, conveyors, and drafts, whether the frames be of steel or wood; and all necessary supports shall be assembled by millwrights except such as are to be fastened by hot rivets. The framing and drilling of all work hoppers as handling machinery either elevated or conveying. All burning and welding of same.

4. Stone crushing and gravel washing plants, crushers, screens, revolving or eccentric, rolls, fan conveyors, all conveyors, belt, chain, screw, whether boxes be of steel, iron or wood.

The assembling of all train rails, mono rails, overhead cranes or all travelers where no hot rivets are used in assembling same.

Setting all beams or timbers used in the reception of machinery and drilling of holes, necessary for the foundation whether they be of wood or steel, stone, concrete or other materials, whether ratchet or power drills are used. The erection and dismantling of machinery conveyors except that temporary or portable installations pertaining to Heavy and Highway construction is excluded.

5. All grain handling appliances, cleaners, clippers, needles machines, car pullers and grain shovels. The manufacture and erection of wood leg, spouts and conveyor boxes.

6. The erection of steel and/or cast-iron legs, heads or roots and conveyor boxes, framing of all marine legs and ship shovels and the framing of all scale timbers. Setting of all scales, tract hopper or automatic, all boot tanks, receiving hoppers and devices used for elevator legs when not electrical appliances.

7. All bin valves, turnheads and indicators, all necessary shafting bearing and supports, all drives, rope belt, chain or rawhide, all pulleys, cable sprockets or gearing and the cutting of all key seats and valve lapping and fitting all machine surfaces in new or old work in the field.

8. All sewage disposal machinery and coffee roasting plants.

9. All amusement devices of all kinds; all animation and mechanical exhibits that are used in expositions and fairs, all turntables in expositions, fairs, gas stations and garages, all barrel or package devices either elevated or conveying; all presses, hydraulic or otherwise.

10. All direct or connected machinery of any power hog hoist and meat handling machinery, all spice or flour or cereal mills, or cotton, wool, silk, twine, paper, saw, cement, planing, powder and paint mills, machinery and woodworking shops or factories, jewelry and powerhouse machinery, sugar refineries, starch house, bakeries, fertilizer breweries, and shoe factories. All ice plants and equipments, ice cream factories and laundries, knitting mills and power sewing machines. Finally, all work pertaining to machinery used for manufacturing purposes or amusement devices which will come with the evolution of time and this craft will come under this jurisdiction claim, and all burning and welding involved.

11. Sewage and Water Treatment Plants-disassembly, fabricating, rigging, erecting and aligning of skimmers, rake mechanisms, feed wells, baffles, scum troughs, degritting equipment, bar screens, communitors, mixers, pumps, aeration systems, blowers, membrane filtration systems, sequencing batch reaction systems, including any related piping or duct work, filter presses, sand filtration systems (excluding the filtration media and associated earthworks), ultra violet rack systems, mechanical drive assemblies, conveyors, mono rails, gates and setting odor control equipment, (excluding heating, ventilating and air conditioning work or associated earthworks).

12. The setting of thru-clean bar, straight line bar, trash, tritor drum, and disc screens, straight line grit, circuline grit, circuline sludge, and circuline mixer collectors, straight line, flash, horizontal slow, vertical slow, and vibra flow feeder machines, pre-aeration and settling tanks, covers for tanks, bowls and basins including stationary or mechanical covers regardless of materials, thickeners, rotoline distributors, sludge bed cleaners, digestion systems, heaters, dyna-grind sewage screening grinders, screw pumps, spiral classifer, agitators, junk remover, hydro pulper, cooling fans, lube systems, selectifier screens, hydrosensors, fuel blowers, grizzly screens, trommels, table feeders, dryers, optical sorters, high tension separators, grip dewatering screens, flash mixer, horizontal slow mixer, vertical slow mixer, vibra-flow feeder machine, circuline grit collectors, pre-aeration and settling tanks, circuline sludge collectors, circuline mixer collectors, grip dewatering screens, filter, cone and rotary presses, comminutors, barminutors, degreasers, rotometers, dehumidifiers, benches, washers for cars, trucks, buses, trains and other types, hydraulic units, shroud boxes, silencers, scales, load cells, eddy current clutches, disintegrators, dehairing machines, grain handling devices, laboratory equipment, machine shop equipment, ladle cars, stunning pens and doors, activation equipment, racks, material handling platforms, transition pieces, the handling and installation, of pulleys, gears, sheaves and fly wheels, air vacuum, worm, belt, friction, rope, chain and gear drives that are directly or indirectly coupled to motors, belts, chains, shafts, or screws, installation of legs, boots, guards and boot tanks, all bin and diverter valves, turn hands and indicators, shafting, bearing cable sprockets, cutting of all key seats in old and new work, troughs, chippers, calendars, rolls, winders, rewinders, slitters, cutters, wrapping machines, blowers, forging machines, pneumatic, electric and hydraulic rams, extractors, expellers and extruders, ball and dust collectors, splicing of ropes and cables.

13. The laying out, fabrication and installation of protecting equipment including:

machinery guards, making and setting of templates for machinery, fabrication of bolts, nuts, pans, drilling of holes in machinery for any equipment which the Millwrights install regardless of materials, all welding and burning regardless of type, fabrication of all lines, hose or tubing used in the lubrication, operation, cooling or heating of machinery including the installation of all fluids used to operate, lubricate, cool or heat equipment installed by Millwrights, cleaning of machinery before turnover to owner, machining, grinding, milling, broaching, boring, threading, lapping and keying that may be necessary for any part of equipment, including the starting up, breaking in, trial running and operational or functional testing of any equipment or machinery installed by the Millwrights.

14. When optical instruments such as automatic levels, builders’ transits, precision jig transits, tilting levels, theodolites or other precision tools and instruments are used to locate and set machines, these tools are considered a tool of this trade and are to be used by Millwrights to set their equipment.

15. Rock, sand and gravel plants, batch or aggregate plants, recycling equipment, crushers, conveyors, chutes from one piece of mechanical equipment into another piece of mechanical equipment, or from a vessel into a conveyor, or into other places or mechanical equipment or other mechanical equipment used (for the purpose of description only) to excavate material from one area to another from highways, roadways or elsewhere.

16. Asbestos removal on equipment in which Millwrights normally remove during maintenance and repair work. (Removal shall be allowed by the Union whose members have been educated and trained in the safe removal of asbestos materials and have a Connecticut State Certified License for asbestos removal.) Any new equipment or technology designed to replace any of the equipment described above shall remain in the jurisdiction of the Millwrights.

17. All welding and burning connected with Millwright work as defined herein.

18. The setting of variable drives, fans, coal cranes, truck cranes or other types, including servicing and the adjusting and aligning of mechanical equipment within the cranes, crane rails and all other types of rails which would carry mechanically activated equipment, including their alignment, monorail (all sizes), trolleys, pumps and their associated components, packaging equipment, refrigerating equipment, chillers, and related equipment, lantern rings, packing glands, packing for pumps, pollution equipment, carbon absorbers, heat exchangers, grain, ball, hammer, roller mills and other, crushers and beaters, hoppers, bins chutes and spouts, turn tables, shears, casing machines, robots, air conveyors, conveyors of all sizes, types, and styles regardless of the materials they are constructed with, including their supports, people movers, jetways, magnetic separators, hoists, feeding machinery, Z-loaders, S-loaders, palletizes, Triax equipment, mechanical equipment in scrubbers, pack towers, precipitators, cooling towers and air cooled condensers.

19. Offshore Work. All work involving travel offshore to a work site , including but not limited to, the unloading, hoisting, rigging by any means, transferring, moving, cleaning, disassembling, assembling, welding, burning, erecting, calibrating, aligning, setting, starting-up and testing, adjusting, repairing, and the maintaining of all turbines, castings, combustion chambers and all its related components, be it powered by, or receiving power from, steam, gas, gasoline, diesel, jet, electric, pneumatic, water, solar, thermal, mineral, atomic, rocket, nuclear, chemical, wind or any other source, regardless whether temporarily or permanently installed or located, as well as any other related work for oil, gas, wind and/or any other natural resource exploration and drilling facilities. regardless of location within the state of NJ and/or federal waters from the NJ shoreline.

20. With respect to the new jurisdictional language added to Article X(B) in the 2013 Agreement and for Association contractors only it shall not be a violation of this Agreement if an Employer assigns work defined in Article X, Section B/Millwrights to another recognized building trades union, where the work in question is within the recognized and traditional jurisdiction of another Union with which the Employer has an Agreement and where the Employer has a history of using another building trade to perform the work in question.

21. For millwright work, Local 715 recognize the threat of non-union competition and will do all possible to promote union millwright construction, including holding pre-bid and/or pre-job conferences on an individual job basis to mutually agree on ways to enable the Union Employers to be more competitive with non-union Employers. The parties recognize the threat of unfair competition in certain areas and types of work from contractors who do not conform to the standards provided in this collective bargaining agreement. In order to address that problem, the Employer may request relief from certain provisions of this collective bargaining agreement. The Employer shall contact the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Millwright Council or his designee to discuss the relief being requested. If an agreement on relief is granted, it will be reduced to writing, and reasonable efforts will be made to advise other signatory contractors who are bidding on the project of the relief and will notify the Associations. It is expressly understood that no modification or deviation may be made from the existing collective bargaining agreement except by mutual agreement of the parties. It is further understood that failure to reach an agreement under this provision shall not be subject to arbitration. It is the intent of the parties that this procedure will be utilized where circumstances warrant and that the Employer will not abuse this procedure. Procedures shall be established by the Executive Secretary Treasurer or his or her designee to notify all contractors of the changes, which have been granted for that particular job.

C. Lathing

1. Lathing shall be assigned to journeymen and apprentices represented by this Regional Council on the following work: erecting, constructing, installing and completing of all light iron construction, furring; making and erecting of brackets, clips and hangers; wood, wire and metal lath; plaster board or other material which takes the place of same to which plastic or acoustical material is adhered; corner beads, all floor construction; arches erected for the purpose of holding plaster, cement, concrete or any other plastic or acoustical material.

2. All carrying bars, purlins and furring, regardless of size; light iron and metal furring of all descriptions such as rods, channels, flat iron, nailock, screwlock, pomeroy and other ceiling bars or systems for the receipt of metal lath, rock lath, gypsum board, or any other materials and all light iron and metal studs such as stran studs, penn metal, soule, truscon and other trade names of metal studs and all other types of light iron and metal studs, no matter what the manufacturer including Unistrut, when such studs are to receive a dry wall finish, such as gypsum board, wall board, wooden paneling, etc., or when such studs are to receive metal lath, rock lath or other material for the application of plaster or other sprayed on wet material; and all other light iron furring erected to receive lath, plastic or acoustical materials. Installation of all Unistrut.

3. The nailing, tying and fastening of all wire and metallic lath such as wirecloth, wire mesh, expanded metal lath, hyrib lath and all rib and flat expanded metal lath and wire of all descriptions as well as the placing of all hangers and all inserts used for the purpose of supporting suspended ceiling of any of the above types of light iron or metal furring which receive lath, plastic or acoustical materials; the placing of all types of floor lath, such as hyrib lath, paper-back steeltex floor lath, Penn metal rib, and all other appurtenances connected therewith.

4. The erection of all metal plastering accessories such as metal corner beads, door and window casing beads, metal picture mould, metal chair rail, metal base and base screed and any and all other metal plastering accessories which are covered and/or serve as a ground guard, stop, or screed for plastic material.

5. Such other work as falls within this article as such other work may now exist or may come into being as a result of the development of new methods and new materials, including, but not limited to the installation and erection of the drivit and other synthetic stuccos and similar systems.

6. Installation of formwork for reinforced concrete construction where such agreements prevail.

7. The loading, unloading, carrying, placing and handling of all materials falling within the trade jurisdiction of this Council from the point of delivery on the jobsite to the point where work is to be performed with said materials.

ARTICLE XI

JURISDICTIONAL SETTLEMENT PROCEDURE:

1. It is agreed between the Union and the Association that this agreement is applicable to construction work that is primarily within the recognized and traditional jurisdiction of the Union and shall be performed in accordance with the terms of this agreement. It is further agreed that should any employer be required to perform construction work that is within the recognized and traditional jurisdiction of another Union with which the employer has a similar agreement for the performance of that work, then work assignments shall be made in accordance with Agreements of Record or prevailing area practice.