Common use of Designation of Members Clause in Contracts

Designation of Members. Board Rules. (a) The parties hereto agree that, during the term of this Agreement, there shall be a standing Joint Trade Board composed of four (4) representatives designated by the Association and four (4) representatives designated by the Union, one of whom shall be elected as Chairman and one of whom shall be elected as Secretary of said Board. In order to assure equal Employer and Union representation at all times, it is agreed that whenever a vacancy exists and whenever a member of the Joint Trade Board is absent from a meeting, if such vacancy or absence results from a lack of a Union representative or representatives, the vote or votes represented by such vacancy or absence shall be divided equally among the remaining Union representatives, each of whom shall be entitled to vote the whole or fractional vote or votes allocated to him as a result of such division, in addition to his own vote, until such vacancy is filled or such absence terminates. If such vacancy or absence results from a lack of an Employer representative or representatives, the vote or votes represented by each vacancy or absence shall be divided equally among the remaining Employer representatives, each of whom shall be entitled to vote the whole or fractional vote or votes allocated to him as a result of such division, in addition to his own vote, until such vacancy is filled or such absence terminates. (b) The Joint Trade Board shall have the right to set up its own rules and regulations providing ways and means of enforcing and adjudicating this Agreement and any Employer who has signed an Agreement with the Union agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Joint Trade Board. Such rules and regulations are to be published in booklet form for distribution to the parties under this Agreement.