PARAGRAPH 151 - 160
Apprentice Wage Rates
(151) Effective with the effective date of this agreement, the straight time hourly wage rates (exclusive of Cost-of-Living Allowance and shift premium) for apprentices in the bargaining unit shall be the rates set forth in the following Apprentice Rate Schedule:
*The “Rate Difference” shall be determined by subtracting the sum of $.20 and the Hourly Rate for the 2nd 916 Hours from the maximum rate established in the Local Wage Agreement for the journeyman/woman classification for which the apprentice is in training. Resultant rates shall be rounded to the nearest 1 cent.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, seniority employees transferred to apprentice training, including seniority GM employees transferred from other GM-UAW locations, shall be transferred at their current rate or the rate of $22.74 per hour, whichever is lower, provided, however, that in no event will their 1st Period Rate be lower than a rate of ten cents (10¢) over the 1st Period Hourly Rate set forth above. Upon their completion of that 1st Period, they shall be paid a rate of $21.57 or their first period rate, whichever is higher, and if retained, shall be paid such rate until they qualify for a higher rate in accordance with the Apprentice Rate Schedule.
The $22.74 and $21.57 rates shown in the above paragraph will become $23.42 and $22.22 on September 18, 2000; $24.12 and $22.89 on September 17, 2001; and $24.84 and $23.58 on September 16, 2002.
Upon graduation, apprentices will receive an increase, if retained, to the midpoint of the rate range for the skilled classification to which they are assigned.
The above Apprentice Rate Schedule automatically provides for all increases in straight time hourly wage rates which are effective on the effective date of this Agreement. The wage increases provided for in Paragraph (101)(a)(2) shall be added to the fixed portion of the Hourly Rate in the Apprentice Rate Schedule and to the above stated $22.74 and $21.57 rates and the straight time hourly wage rates for individual apprentices shall be determined only in accordance with the provisions of this Paragraph (151).
[See Par. (99), (132), (137)(d), (181a)]
Skilled Trades Vacancies
[See App. I]
(152) Management will study its future tool, die, maintenance, machine repair, wood and metal pattern shop needs, and at least once each six months will post on the bulletin board a list of jobs, if any, for which a shortage of journeymen/women is anticipated. Where qualified journeymen/women are not available either through new hires, from journeymen/women currently working on other than skilled trades classifications who have submitted appropriate documents to Management pursuant to Paragraph (178), or from graduated apprentices, employees working on other than skilled trades classifications will be permitted to file application for vacancies in skilled trades classifications listing their qualifications for such jobs. However, subject to rules and conditions established by written local agreement employees working in skilled trades classifications may be permitted to file application for vacancies in other skilled trades classifications listing their qualifications for such jobs.
[See Par. (153)]
[See Doc. 63 ]
(153) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Agreement, Management may select non-journeymen/women seniority employees who have previously filed an application as provided above for transfer to the skilled trades classifications for training and to perform the work in such classifications. Employees transferred to skilled trades classifications shall be selected on the basis of their qualifications, [including time worked after January 1, 1968, pursuant to Paragraph (179) unless otherwise mutually agreed between Management and the Shop Committee], and when their qualifications are equal, employees with the longest seniority will be given preference. The recruitment, selection, employment, and training of employees-in-training (E.I.T.) shall be without discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or sexual orientation. Affirmative action will be taken to provide equal opportunity in the Employee-in-Training Program.
[See Par. (6a), (152), (154) ]
[See App. H; K]
(154) Where no applications of seniority employees with qualifications have been filed for transfer, non-seniority employee applicants may be transferred or new non-journeymen/women applicants with qualifications may be hired for the work.
[See Par. (153)]
Classification of “Employees-in-Training” and “Employees-in-Training Seniority”
[See App. I]
(155) Employees transferred to a skilled trades classification in which they do not hold journeyman/woman or E.I.T.S. status, or non-journeyman/woman new-hires assigned to a skilled trades classification in which they do not qualify for E.I.T.S. status, shall be identified in the skilled trades classification in which they are working as employees-in-training (e.g., “Lathe Operator [E.I.T.]”, “Tool Maker [E.I.T.]”) until their status is changed to employee-in-training seniority (E.I.T.S.) or they are reclassified as journeymen/women in such classification in accordance with provisions of Paragraph (166).
[See Par. (156)]
[See App. B, C]
(156) An employee or a non-journeyman/woman new hire who completes or has completed at least four years of work as an employee-in-training (E.I.T.) in any one skilled trades classification in any General Motors plant shall be identified in such skilled trades classification as an “Employee-in-Training Seniority” (e.g., “Lathe Operator [E.I.T.S.]”, “Tool Maker [E.I.T.S.]”), as of July 1, 1977, if the employee is working in that skilled trades classification, or upon transfer or recall to that skilled trades classification if later than July 1, 1977, until classified as a journeyman/woman in such classification in accordance with Paragraph (166), except as provided in Appendix C.
[See Par. (155), (157)(a)(1), (167), (168)]
[See Par. (175)(3), (180)(c)]
(157)(a) When employees-in-training (E.I.T.) are identified as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.), they shall for the purpose of layoff and recall be credited with seniority as follows:
[See Par. (158)]
(1) Employees who, pursuant to Paragraph (156), are identified as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) in a skilled classification in the plant subsequent to July 1, 1968, and were employees-in-training (E.I.T.) in such skilled classification in the plant prior to such date shall receive seniority credit as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) for the time worked in the plant prior to July 1, 1968, equal to one (1) pay period for each four (4) pay periods worked and for the time worked in the classification in the plant after July 1, 1968, shall receive seniority credit as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) equal to one (1) pay period for each two (2) pay periods worked in the classification in the plant and for time worked in the classification in the plant after January 1, 1988 shall receive credit as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) equal to the time worked in the classification in the plant except as provided in Appendix C.
[See Par. (156)]
(2) Effective July 1, 1977, employees who are classified as employees-in-training (E.I.T.) for the first time subsequent to July 1, 1968, shall, upon becoming employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) in accordance with Paragraph (156), receive seniority credit for 50% of the time [subsequent to their seniority date established pursuant to Paragraph (57)] during which they worked in that skilled trades classification in that plant either on a continuous or accumulated basis, and for all time during which they worked in that classification in that plant subsequent to January 1, 1988, except as provided in Appendix C.
(157)(b) For the purpose of layoff and rehire in the skilled trades classifications, employees-in- training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) transferred or hired directly to employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) status, shall, subsequent to acquiring plant seniority pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (57), establish seniority in the skilled trades classification to which they are assigned. The date such employees are transferred or hired into the skilled trades classification shall be their skilled seniority date in that classification except that such date will not precede their seniority date established pursuant to Paragraph (57).
(158) Employees covered by Paragraph (158) of the September 20, 1961 National Agreement who were not returned to the classification under the terms of that Agreement as of the date it terminated shall continue to have seniority credited to them in accordance with Paragraph (157) in the skilled trades classification in which they hold employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) status. However, such employees shall exercise their seniority in the skilled trades classification in which they hold employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) status only upon being returned to work in that classification, provided, however, that notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, they shall have preference to return to that classification over (1) new hires and (2) any other employees with lesser seniority in the classification who would otherwise be entitled to be returned to the classification.
Seniority of “Employees-in-Training” and “Employees-in-Training-Seniority”
[See App. I]
(159) Employees-in-training (E.I.T.) and employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) shall retain and accumulate seniority in the seniority group in which it is established at the time of their transfer to the employee-in-training status.
(159a) Employees transferred directly to employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S) status, shall retain and accumulate seniority in the seniority group in which it is established at the time of their transfer to employee-in-training-seniority status.
(160) For the purpose of layoff and rehire in the skilled trades classifications, employees-in-training (E.I.T.) shall establish a date of entry in the skilled trades classification to which they are assigned as of the date they are transferred or hired into such classification. They shall retain such date of entry in such classification until their status is changed to employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S) or they are reclassified as journeymen/women in that classification; provided, however, Local Management and the Shop Committee may work out a local agreement, subject to the approval of the Corporation and the International Union, dealing with the matter of multiple dates of entry of an employee.
[See Par. (165), (173), (175)(4), (180)(c)]
[See App. B, C]
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