Joint Apprenticeship Program. 1. The Association and the Union hereby adopt an apprenticeship program to be administered by the Ohio Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Fund (formerly, Ohio Laborers’ Training and Upgrading Fund) (“Fund”) which will establish a program for the training and utilization of registered apprentices on construction sites. The program and contributions to it shall be in compliance with the Labor Management Relations Act and the federal and state requirements for approved apprenticeship programs. The trust agreement provisions and the rules for eligibility and regulations created by the Trustees overseeing the Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Fund are incorporated by reference and will be made available upon request by any contributing Contractor. 2. All registered apprentices shall be under the direction and control of the Board of Trustees of the Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Trust Fund, which will administer the Apprenticeship Program and serve as the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (“JATC”) with full power and authority to promulgate standards of apprenticeship applicable to this Agreement. 3. The Contractor contribution to the amended Fund shall remain unchanged and be in the amount of contributions required for the Fund set forth in the Agreement. 4. The ratio of apprentices to Laborers shall be no less than one competent and qualified Laborer to one apprentice for the first apprentice on the job, and three competent and qualified Laborers to one apprentice thereafter. There shall be no commingling of apprentices onto one or more specific job sites, as the ratio must be maintained for each project. 5. Every employee of a Contractor who comes within the scope of the Agreement shall be considered a Laborer unless registered as an apprentice under the Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Fund. 6. Apprentices shall work under the supervision of competent and qualified workers on the job. Instruction in safety and safe work practices will be part of job instruction, in addition to that included in related off-job instruction. 7. Individuals accepted into the apprenticeship program shall fulfill all obligations of the Apprenticeship Standards before being granted recognition as a skilled Construction Craft Laborer and until such time as these obligations are met, the apprentice shall be granted an “apprentice member card” by the International Union. The apprentice will be required to complete the requirements of the Apprenticeship Standards before becoming eligible to claim journeyworker status, be recognized as a journeyworker and/or enter the journeyworker out-of-work list. Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship program, the individual shall be issued a regular membership card by the International Union. 8. The amount of wages to be paid the apprentice shall be at a percentage or graduated wage scale of the Laborer for the class of work and work location set forth in the Agreement, as follows: The above percentages are calculated on the base wage rate only. The apprentice shall receive full payment on his or her behalf into the fringe benefit programs at the rate called for in the Agreement. In no instance shall the starting rate be less than the hourly minimum of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 9. The Ohio Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Trust Fund shall formulate rules and regulations necessary to administer the apprenticeship program to govern eligibility, registration and education to meet the needs and requirements of the program and in compliance with federal and state apprentice guidelines. The purpose of the program is to supply apprentices to Contractors signatory to the Agreement and the program will require apprentices trained under the program to continue in the employ of signatory Contractors during and after completion of the program. Any registered apprentice who goes to work for a non-signatory Contractor shall no longer be eligible for the program. 10. Unless the Contractor and Business Manager specifically agree otherwise, a signatory Contractor to this Agreement may refer applicants to the Ohio Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Trust Fund for proposed inclusion in the apprentice program, provided it has no registered apprentice on layoff. Unless and until accepted, the referred applicant shall not be eligible for an apprentice rate. 11. A signatory Contractor may request the local union having jurisdiction over the work area covered by the specific project for apprentice referrals who, if referred, will serve as the employee hired through the local union.
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Sources: Building Agreement
Joint Apprenticeship Program. 1. The Association A. It is agreed that employers signatory to the "Apprenticeship and Training Standards for the Union hereby adopt an apprenticeship program to be administered Sheet Metal Industry" compiled by the Ohio Laborers’ Arizona Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee may secure from the Joint Apprenticeship Committee, apprentices eligible for employment from the established apprentice pool.
B. It is further agreed that apprentices and Apprenticeship Fund (formerly, Ohio Laborers’ Training and Upgrading Fund) (“Fund”) which will establish a program apprenticeship training are for the training and utilization purpose of registered apprentices on construction sites. The program and contributions to it shall be in compliance with creating skilled craftsmen for the Labor Management Relations Act and the federal and state requirements for approved apprenticeship programs. The trust agreement provisions and the rules for eligibility and regulations created by the Trustees overseeing the Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Fund are incorporated by reference and will be made available upon request by any contributing Contractor.
2. All registered apprentices shall be under the direction and control future of the Board of Trustees of the Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Trust FundSheet Metal Industry. Therefore, which will administer the Apprenticeship Program and serve as the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (“JATC”) with full power will move apprentices as necessary to insure proper training. Every effort will be made to minimize disruption of the Employers' business and authority to promulgate standards productivity when movement of apprenticeship applicable to this Agreementapprentices is required.
C. Apprentice ratios & recovery work: It is further agreed that for an employer to be eligible for an apprentice, he must have a minimum of one (1) journeymen employed. An employer may secure one (1) apprentice for each Building Trades Journeyman for the first three (3) journeymen employed. The Contractor contribution employer would be eligible for the fourth (4) apprentices when the fifth (5) journeymen is hired, the ratio from there on will be three (3) journeymen to the amended Fund shall remain unchanged one (1) apprentice. For an employer to be eligible for a tradesman, he must first have three (3) apprentices employed, then he may secure an additional or tradesman for each three (3) journeyman and one (1) apprentice thereafter. Fifth year apprentices (9th term and 10th term) are not to be counted in the amount journeyman- apprentice- tradesman ratios. The above ratios may be adjusted for contractors signatory to Local Union No. 359 in order to allow them the opportunity to be competitive with non-union contractors. These adjustments will be permitted by the Business Manager through the utilization of contributions required for Resolution 78. It is also understood that additional ratios will be implemented to allow signatory contractors of Local Union No. 359 the Fund set forth opportunity to be competitive in the Agreement.
recovery work category. Journeymen I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Apprentices I I I I I I I I I Tradesmen I ….AND SO ON I I I I I I D. Tradesmen: Tradesmen will be available for new work, in the Recovery Work Category, on all projects bid after July 1, 1999. No tradesman will count on projects requesting or receiving hourly Equality Fund Relief. No tradesman will be allowed on projects bid under Resolution 78 Concessions. It is further agreed that for an employer to be eligible for a tradesman, he must have a minimum of one (1) journeyman employed. Tradesmen may be hired in ratio to apprentices, as follows, for use on recovery work. An employer may secure one (1) tradesmen for one (1) apprentice up to, but no more than, four (4) covered employees; the next apprentice may be secured with the fifth tradesmen; then the ratio goes to three (3) journeymen; and so on; all in accordance with the ratio scale as follows: Journeymen, apprentices, and tradesmen may work on any project. Ratios will be on a company basis. The ratio first worker assigned to any project will be a journeyman. Every eighth worker on a recovery work project will be a journeyman. All supervisory positions will be performed by Local Union No. 359 journeymen, foremen, general foremen, or superintendents. The Local Union will retain the right of apprentices dispatching tradesmen. Journeymen sheet metal workers who are unemployed may apply for work as journeyman/tradesmen sheet metal workers, without losing their position on the out of work (A) list. Journeymen sheet metal workers will have the first priority. Out of work journeymen (voluntarily) to Laborers be taken off of the top of the list only. Wage rates for journeymen sheet metal workers employed as journeyman/tradesmen shall be no less than one competent seventy percent (70%) of current journeyman scale. Journeymen working as journeyman/tradesmen will receive full benefits for every hour worked. Payroll deductions for journeymen working as "Journeyman/Tradesmen" shall be as follows: Working Dues check-off – 3% of their total wage and qualified Laborer to one apprentice for the first apprentice on the job, and three competent and qualified Laborers to one apprentice thereafter. There fringe package; there shall be no commingling Equality Fund deduction for journeymen dispatched and working as "Journeyman/Tradesmen." The rate for tradesmen sheet metal workers will be not less than $10.00 per hour. The initial rate of apprentices onto one or more specific job sites, as pay shall be established by the ratio must be maintained Local Union for each project.
5non-journeyman tradesman worker. Every employee The initial rate shall be determined by proof of experience and/or comprehensive placement testing. Periodic reviews will be performed on each tradesmen worker employed every six (6) months. The maximum rate of pay for a Contractor who comes within the scope non-journeyman tradesmen sheet metal worker shall not exceed seventy percent (70%) of the Agreement current journeyman scale. Industrial rates for tradesmen shall be considered a Laborer unless registered as an apprentice four dollars ($4.00) above the applicable wage rate in effect, excluding zone 2 subsistence. Tradesmen cannot exceed the total number of journeymen employed. (This provision does not apply to contractors employing less than twelve (12) full time journeymen.) Effective July 1, 2016 - Senior Tradesmen will be available for hire under the Laborers’ provisions set forth in this article regarding ratios to apprentices and journeyman on job sites or in the shop. A senior tradesman is defined as a worker with at least two (2) years of trade experience and not currently or previously registered in the Arizona Joint Apprenticeship Training and Apprenticeship Fund.
6program. Apprentices shall work under The maximum rate of pay for a senior tradesman will not exceed seventy percent (70%) nor be less than fifty percent (50%) of the supervision of competent and qualified workers current journeyman scale. Senior tradesmen will have contributions made on their behalf to the job401(k) Plan. Instruction in safety and safe work practices will be part of job instruction, in addition If at any time a senior tradesmen chooses to that included in related off-job instruction.
7. Individuals accepted into join the apprenticeship program shall fulfill all obligations of the Apprenticeship Standards before being granted recognition as a skilled Construction Craft Laborer and until such time as these obligations are met, the apprentice shall they will then be granted an “apprentice member card” by the International Unionclassified accordingly. The apprentice Senior tradesmen will be required to complete one (1) Continuing Education Unit (CEU) annually to maintain senior tradesmen status. The ratio for senior tradesmen will be one
(1) senior tradesman to one (1) Journeyman and one (1) apprentice on the requirements jobsite or in the shop. Senior tradesmen may perform any work covered by Article I for which they are capable and will work under the general direction of a journeyman. Senior tradesmen shall be evaluated using a method jointly developed by Labor and Management to determine the wages, qualifications, and capabilities to enter the workforce. In the event the employer is entitled to employ a tradesman or senior tradesman worker, and the union fails to comply with the Employer's written request to furnish a tradesmen sheet metal worker within forty-eight (48) hours, the Employer may directly hire such employees, and refer them to the Union. RECOVERY WORK DEFINITION. Recovery work shall be defined as 1) light commercial work as defined in Article XXXVI of the Apprenticeship Standards before becoming eligible Addenda to claim journeyworker status, be recognized as a journeyworker and/or enter the journeyworker out-of-work list. Upon successful completion Standard Form of the apprenticeship program, the individual shall be issued a regular membership card by the International Union.
8. The amount of wages to be paid the apprentice shall be at a percentage or graduated wage scale of the Laborer for the class of work and work location set forth in the Union Agreement, as follows: The above percentages are calculated on the base wage rate only. The apprentice shall receive full payment on his or her behalf into the fringe benefit programs at the rate called for in the Agreement. In no instance shall the starting rate be less than the hourly minimum of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
9. The Ohio Laborers’ Training 2) elementary, junior high and Apprenticeship Trust Fund shall formulate rules and regulations necessary to administer the apprenticeship program to govern eligibilityhigh schools, registration and education to meet the needs and requirements of the program and in compliance with federal and state apprentice guidelines. The purpose of the program is to supply apprentices to Contractors signatory to the Agreement and the program will require apprentices trained under the program to continue in the employ of signatory Contractors during and after completion of the program. Any registered apprentice who goes to work for a non-signatory Contractor shall no longer be eligible for the program.
10. Unless the Contractor and Business Manager specifically agree otherwise3) supermarkets, a signatory Contractor to this Agreement may refer applicants to the Ohio Laborers’ Training and Apprenticeship Trust Fund for proposed inclusion in the apprentice program4) shopping malls, provided it has no registered apprentice on layoff. Unless and until accepted5) arcades, the referred applicant shall not be eligible for an apprentice rate.
11. A signatory Contractor may request the local union having jurisdiction over the work area covered by the specific project for apprentice referrals who6) commercial production facilities, if referred7) convention halls, will serve as the employee hired through the local union.8) penal institutions,
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Sources: Union Agreement