Scope_of_Work_Provisions-Plumber,_Steamfitter.pdf

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This document is a detailed Scope of Work Provisions for plumbing trade classifications issued by the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry, covering multiple California counties including Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, and others. The document establishes comprehensive jurisdictional work definitions for plumbers, steamfitters, refrigeration fitters, and pipe tradesmen, specifying their precise roles in various construction, maintenance, and service contexts. It delineates work responsibilities across multiple domains including new construction, service and maintenance work, industrial piping systems, water mains, sewage disposal plants, building water lines, lawn sprinkler installations, and miscellaneous piping work.

The scope of work provisions meticulously outline the specific tasks assigned to different trade classifications, including detailed descriptions of pipe installation, handling, fabrication, assembly, and maintenance across diverse environments such as industrial facilities, commercial buildings, residential spaces, and municipal infrastructure. The document includes an extensive 50-point jurisdiction list that comprehensively defines the work boundaries for plumbing and pipe fitting professionals, covering everything from water and sewage systems to specialized piping for industrial, manufacturing, and transportation applications. The provisions also address extended work scope elements like material loading/unloading, demolition of piping fixtures, ditch digging, and job site preparation, ensuring clear delineation of responsibilities between different trade classifications.

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SCOPE OF WORK PROVISIONS

CRAFT/CLASSIFICATION

Plumber: Plumber, Steamfitter, Refrigeration Fitter (HVAC)

LOCALITY

ALPINE (Portion Lying Outside The Tahoe Basin Area), Amador (Portion South Of Sutter Creek), Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Kings, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Modoc, Plumas, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne and Yuba Counties

CRAFT/CLASSIFICATION

Plumber: Plumber, Pipe Fitter and Refrigeration Fitter (HVAC)

LOCALITY

Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties

CRAFT/CLASSIFICATION

Plumber: Pipe Tradesman

LOCALITY

Alpine (Portion Lying Outside The Tahoe Basin Area), Amador (Portion South Of Sutter Creek), Calaveras, Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne Counties

ID

204-X-3

SCOPE OF WORK

Section 3. Work Covered. This Agreement shall cover all Solar, Plumbing, Heating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Process and Industrial Piping Systems at the job site or in the shop of the l/E and coming within the jurisdiction of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, as recognized and established by the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, International Agreements or other Agreements to which the DC #36 is a party or is bound, and decisions of record of the Impartial Disputes Plan for the Construction Industry, including specifically the following:

(A) The fifty (50) points of jurisdiction (except as otherwise hereinbefore provided) as set forth in the Constitution of the United Association, a copy of which fifty (50) points is annexed hereto.

(B) The loading and unloading, anywhere at the job site or at the I/E's shop, yard or job site stock pile, distributing, reloading by any method, whether power equipment is used or not, the rigging, hoisting, assembling, fabricating, installation and erection of pipe work of any kind and description, hangers, supports ( except yard supports which are bridged together or constitute a part of the building structure) regardless of material or shape, fixtures, appurtenances and equipment which are part of the piping system, to be installed or used by the l/E, whether by fork lift, handy crane, tugger, welding machine (gas or diesel propelled) or other equipment, and any accessories thereto.

(C) (1) The loading and unloading of plumbing, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration and the piping materials and/or equipment on and off trucks used to deliver such materials from a job stockroom, fabricating shop or job stock pile to the approximate point of use or installation.

(2) Job stockroom, tool room, fabricating shop and job stock pile are defined to be that stockroom, tool room, shop or stock pile which is situated on the premises of the job site and which is used by the employees covered hereby as a place to stock plumbing, heating, air conditioning and/or refrigeration and other piping 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 stock pile to another on the job site.

(D) All work not specifically mentioned above which has been traditionally or normally done by the employees covered by this Agreement as though specifically herein set forth.

ARTICLE Ill FABRICATION

Section 1. The fabrication of all plumbing, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration and piping materials and industrial piping which has been traditionally and normally performed at the job-site by I/E's using employees covered by this Agreement, shall continue to and must be performed at the· job-site by the employees covered by this Agreement under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No employee may be required to install, or be discharged or otherwise disciplined for refusal to install, any materials which have been fabricated on or off the job-site by any other employer whose total economic cost per unit of labor is less than the total economic cost per unit of labor of I/E's performing the same work under this Agreement.

All hanger rods that are not to be cut and threaded on the job site shall be done in a union fabrication shop in accordance with District Council #36 or the U.A. Fabrication Agreement. All catalog items such as clamps, U-bolts, etc. may be purchased from any source are the option of the employer. Erection of such items shall be covered by the terms of this Agreement.

ARTICLE XXVII SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE WORK

(A) Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Service and Maintenance.

(1) Service arid Maintenance work is the work normally performed by the l/E on an emergency call basis relating to: evacuation, charging, start-up, inspection, operation, maintenance and service calls necessary to keep a mechanical system of refrigeration, air conditioning, heating and/or ventilation or any other newly installed, remodeled, revamped or redesigned mechanical system in operational order. Service and maintenance shall include, but not be limited to, all the maintaining, cleaning, adjusting, repairing, overhauling, starting, and balancing of any system or component part thereof, regardless of size or location, including all other service and maintenance work assigned to the l/E by the customer.

Except for initial start-up, "Service Work" in heating, air conditioning and refrigeration, includes any and all work in charging, testing, changing motors, all types of controls, compressors or other replacement parts, repair of any pipe or any tubing connected thereto, and the service and repair of all newly developed systems, removal, addition or control of heat or humidity and setting, handling and changing of such equipment. This includes all maintenance repairs and service of air conditioning and refrigeration of industrial, commercial and residential packages, built up and remote systems and all work incidental to a service call. Where it becomes necessary to replace one case in a line of cases and it is impractical to replace the single case without replacing the entire line, service shall include replacement of the entire line of cases. INTENT: The prior sentence shall not be used as a subterfuge to accomplish a store remodel.

(2) If an l/E receives a call for service from a customer within the jurisdiction of another L/U of DC #36, the l/E must get clearance from the L/U Business Office prior to sending a man in. This may be accomplished by telephone. There is no requirement for depositing a travel card on service call work as herein defined.

(3) For service and repair, an out-of-area l/E may send in two (2) men for a day on a job not to exceed eight (8) hours. If the job is to exceed eight hours at a single location, then a man or men from the L/U Hiring Hall must be hired.

(4) The first man coming from an outside area to another Local's jurisdiction must be a U.A. Journeyman. The second may be an Apprentice or Tradesman.

(B) Jobbing and Repair on work other than Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.

(1) Jobbing and repair is defined as the repair, replacing, cleaning, or servicing of any existing segment of any existing system other than a refrigeration or air conditioning system.

(2) On any such work, an l/E as defined in Section 3 or Article XIV has the right to work with or without journeymen for not to exceed eight (8) hours on any job, as provided in Section 3(A) (4) or Section 4, whichever is applicable, of Article XXV.

The total work of any job on which an l/E works must not require more than eight

(8) hours to complete.

ARTICLE XXlX SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT

Section 1. The MCCCC, the l/E, and the DC #36 for itself and each L/U, warrants and agrees that it will not by the adoption or amendment of any provisions of its Articles of

Incorporation, ownership, or change in the geographic location of its Employment Office, constitution, by laws, or by contract, or by any means whatsoever, take any action that will prevent or impede it in the full and complete performance of each and every term and condition hereof.

Section 2. This Agreement contains all of the covenants, stipulations and provisions and agreements between those parties to or covered by this Agreement and no agent or representative of any party to this Agreement, MCCCC, or l/E or L/U, APPENDIX I

The following is the jurisdiction of work of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.

(1) All piping valves, [REDACTED] for plumbing, water, waste, floor drains, drained grates, supply, leader, soil pipe, grease traps, sewage and vent lines, [REDACTED]

(2) All piping for water filters, water softeners, water meters and the setting of same.

(3) All cold, hot and circulating water lines, piping for house pumps, cellar drainers, ejectors, house tanks, pressure tanks, swimming pools, ornamental pools, display fountains, drinking fountains, aquariums, plumbing fixtures and appliances, and the handling and setting of the above mentioned equipment.

(4) All water services from mains to buildings, including water meters and water meter foundations.

(5) All water mains from whatever source, including branches and fire hydrants, etc.

(6) All down spouts, drainage areas, soil pipe, catch basins, manholes, drains, gravel basins, storm water sewers, septic tanks, cesspools, water storage tanks, [REDACTED], etc.

(7) All liquid soap piping, liquid soap tanks, soap valves, and equipment in bath and washrooms, shower stalls, etc.

(8) All bathroom, toilet room and shower room accessories, i.e., towel racks, paper holders, glass shelves, hooks, mirrors, [REDACTED].

(9) All lawn sprinkler work including piping, fittings, and lawn sprinkler heads.

(10) All sheet lead and copper lining for X-ray rooms, fountains, swimming pools or shower stalls, tanks or vats for all purposes and for roof flashings in connection with the pipe fitting industry.

(11) All fire stand pipes, fire pumps, pressure and storage tanks, valves, hose racks, fire hose, cabinets and accessories, and all piping for sprinkler work of every description.

(12) All block tin coils, carbonic gas piping, for soda fountains and bars, etc.

(13) All piping for railing work, and racks of every description, whether screwed or welded.

(14) All piping for pneumatic vacuum, cleaning systems of every description.

(15) All piping for hydraulic, vacuum, pneumatic, air, water, steam, oil, or gas, used in connection with railway cars, railway motor cars, and railway locomotives.

(16) All marine piping, and all piping used in connection with ship building and ship yards.

(17) All power plant piping of every description.

(18) The handling, assembling, and erecting, of all economizers, superheaters, regardless of the mode or method of making joints, hangars, and erection of same.

(19) All internal and external piping on boilers, heaters, tanks and evaporators, water legs, water backs and water grates, boiler compound equipment, etc.

(20) All soot blowers and soot collecting piping systems.

(21) The setting, erecting, and piping, for smoke consuming and smoke washing and regulating devices.

(22) The setting, erecting and piping of instruments, measuring devices, thermostatic controls, gauge boards, and other controls used In connection with power, heating, refrigerating, air-conditioning, manufacturing, mining and industrial work.

(23) The setting and erecting of all boiler feeders, water heaters, filters, water softeners, purifiers, condensate equipment, pumps, condensers, coolers and all piping for same in power houses, distributing and boosting stations, refrigeration, bottling, distilling and brewing plants, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.

(24) All piping for artificial gasses, natural gasses, and holders and equipment for same, chemicals, minerals and by-products and refining of same, for any and all purposes [REDACTED].

(25) The setting and erecting of all underfeed stokers, fuel burners, and piping, including gas, oil, power fuel, hot and cold air piping, and all accessories and parts of burners and stokers, etc.

(26) All ash collecting and conveyor piping systems, including all air washing and dust collecting piping and equipment, accessories and appurtenances and regulating devices, etc.

(27) The setting and erection of all oil heaters, oil coolers, storage and distribution tanks, transfer pumps, and mixing devices, and piping thereto of every description.

(28) The setting, erecting and piping of all cooling units, pumps, reclaiming systems, and appurtenances, in connection with transformers, and piping to switches of every description.

(29) All fire extinguishing systems, and piping, valves, [REDACTED], whether by water, steam, gas or chemical, fire alarm piping, [REDACTED] and control tubing, [REDACTED].

(30) All piping for sterilizing, chemical treatment, deodorizing, and all cleaning systems of every description, and laundries for all purposes.

(31) All piping for oil, or gasoline tanks, gravity and pressure lubricating and greasing systems, air and hydraulic lifts, etc.

(32) All piping for power, or heating purposes, either by water, air, steam, gas, oil, chemicals, [REDACTED] or any other method.

(33) All piping setting and hanging of all units and fixtures for air-conditioning, cooling, heating, [REDACTED] refrigerating, ice making, humidifying, dehumidifying, dehydrating, by any method, [REDACTED] and the charging and testing, servicing of all work after completion.

(34) All pneumatic tube work, and all piping for carrying systems by vacuum, compressed air, steam, water, or any other method.

(35) All piping to stoves, fire grates, blast and heating furnaces, ovens, dryers, heaters, oil burners, stokers and boilers and cooking utensils, etc. of every description.

(36) All piping in connection with central distributing filtration treatment stations, boosting stations, waste & sewage disposal plants, central chlorination and chemical treatment work, and all underground supply lines to cooling wells, suction basins, filter basins, settling basins, and aeration basins.

(37) All process piping, valves, [REDACTED] for refining, manufacturing, industrial, and shipping purposes of every character and description. [REDACTED]

(38) All air piping of every description.

(39) All temporary piping of every description in connection with building and construction work, excavating and underground construction.

(40) The laying out [REDACTED] and cutting of all holes, chases and channels, the setting and erection of bolts, [REDACTED], inserts, stands, brackets, supports, sleeves, thimbles, hangers, [REDACTED], conduit and boxes, used in connection with pipe fitting industry.

(41) The handling and setting of boilers, setting of fronts, setting of soot blowers, and attaching of all boiler trimmings.

(42) All pipe transportation lines for gas, oil, gasoline, fluids and liquids, water aqueducts, and water lines, and booster stations of every description.

(43) All acetylene and arc welding, brazing, lead burning, soldered and wiped joints, caulked joints, expanded joints, rolled joints, or any other mode or method of making joints in connection with the pipe fitting industry.

(44) Laying out [REDACTED], cutting, bending and fabricating of all pipe work of every description, by whatever mode or method.

(45) All methods of stress relieving of all pipe joints made by every mode or method.

(46) The assembling and erecting of tanks, used for mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial purposes, to be assembled with bolts, packed, or welded joints.

(47) The handling and using of all tools and equipment that may be necessary for the erection and installation of all work and materials used in the pipe fitting industry.

(48) The operation, maintenance, repairing, servicing, [REDACTED] and dismantling of all work installed by journeymen members of the United Association [REDACTED]

(49) All piping for cataracts, cascades (i.e. artificial water falls), make-up water fountain, captured waters, water towers, cooling towers, and spray ponds used for industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or for any other purposes.

(50) Piping herein specified means pipe made from metals, tile, glass, rubber, plastics, wood, or any other kind of material, or product manufactured into pipe, usable in the pipe fitting industry, regardless of size or shapes.

DEFINITION OF WORK JURISDICTION BETWEEN U.A. PIPE TRADESMAN AND

U.A. PLUMBER/PIPEFITTER

1. The work covered in this jurisdictional agreement includes all new construction and/or all and any work performed by private contractors but it does not include nor is it intended to include in any way any work performed by municipal employees.

2. On all work involved in this Addendum, all necessary cribbing and shoring, the breaking of concrete, pipe wrapping, digging by any method, backfilling, tamping, resurfacing and paving of all ditches, preparation for and the completion of work after the laying of all pipe in ditches shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesmen.

3. SEWERS: (Sanitary)

a. All sewers regardless of material other than a single sewer serving one building shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman. The single sewer shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

b. The installation of all sanitary sewers shall be in accordance with the color-coded layout map.

c. All sewage ejectors and the laying of forced mains and placing of pumps and connections thereto is the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

4. STORM SEWERS AND DRAINS:

a. All work in the installation of corrugated metal piping for drainage as well as installation of corrugated metal piping for culverts shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

b. The installation of all storm sewers and drains shall be in accordance with the color-coded layout map.

5. INDUSTRIAL SEWERS:

a. The installation of industrial sewers in connection with piping systems, tanks and equipment is the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter. Work on sanitary sewers, storm sewers and drains shall be as set forth under those headings.

6. WATER MAINS:

a. The work of installation of all such water mains including the rigging, lowering into a ditch, aligning, leveling and making of joints shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

b. The unloading, handling and distribution to point of installation of all such water mains shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

c. Grouting, dry packing and diapering of joints, including pouring of concrete over joints, shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

7. BUILDING WATER LINES:

a. All water lines that service a building or buildings ONLY will be installed in their entirety from the main to the building by the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

8. SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANTS:

a. All sewage pumping stations and sewage disposal plant piping regardless of material shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/ Pipefitter, except raw sewage feed piping and by-pass piping and treated sewage outfall line where such treated water is not re-used for domestic or industrial purposes shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman. Piping used exclusively for farm irrigation shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

9. WATER PUMPING OR TREATMENT PLANTS:

a. All piping, valves and fittings involved in water pumping or treatment plants shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipe-fitter. Work on drain lines, storm sewers shall be done in accordance with the U.A. Pipe Tradesman and U.A.

Plumber/Pipefitter agreement.

10. MISCELLANEOUS:

a. All piping under, inside or on a building or structure is the work of the U.A.

Plumber/Pipefitter.

b. Temporary quick-coupling piping in tunnels, aqueducts, and dams ONLY while under construction is the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman. All temporary welded, screwed, or mechanical joint pipe is the work of the U.A.

Plumber/Pipefitter.

c. Temporary water piping for building of freeways is the work of the U.A.

Plumber/Pipefitter, except temporary piping for dirt work on freeways and building site preparation which shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

d. Cutting of holes, chases, channels and drilling of holes for pipes, hangers, equipment and appurtenances is the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

When jack hammers, pavement breakers, chipping guns, and spades are used, it shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman. (Roto hammers or similar tools and/or drills are not to be construed as chipping guns).

e. Salvaging of all pipe, and appurtenances presently installed that are to be re-used on that jobsite is the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter. Where such piping, fittings and appurtenances are removed as part of remodel or revamp work, the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter shall dismantle and lower to the ground and from that point, same is the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

f. Complete demolition of a building or structure is the jurisdiction of the U.A.

Pipe Tradesman.

g. All pipe handling, fabricating, assemblying, stockroom work, loading and unloading in piping shops is the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

h. The use of concrete saws not in conflict with the provisions of Paragraph 4 shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

i. All piping, drains, equipment and appurtenances in swimming pool piping shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

11. LAWN SPRINKLER AND LANDSCAPING - New Construction Only:

a. The laying of all water pipe composed of any material in connection with any landscape and sprinkler system and the making of all pipe joints, pipe leveling and caulking in connection with any landscape or sprinkler system shall be the work of the U.A. Plumber/Pipefitter.

b. All digging, digging by any method, grading, backfilling and ground preparation for all types of pipe to all points of the jobsite and the completion of work after the laying of all pipe in ditches shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

c. All ground preparation including ground leveling, layout and planting of shrubbery, trees and ground cover, including watering, weeding, moving, edging, pruning and fertilizing, the breaking of concrete, digging, digging by any method, backfilling and tamping for the preparation and completion of all work shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

d. The initial distribution of pipe and all fittings and pipe materials to the point of installation shall be the work of the U.A. Pipe Tradesman.

EXTENDED SCOPE OF WORK:

12. Loading, unloading and distributing materials at the job site.

13. Putting away materials in storage bins at the shop, or, in job site secure storage areas.

14. Demolition of piping and fixtures in remodels or tear-outs.

15. Digging out and back-filling ditches.

16. Setting up and tearing down work benches, ladders and job shacks.

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