Common use of JOINT SESSIONS Clause in Contracts

JOINT SESSIONS. Upon the request of either the Union or the Association, the Joint Arbitration Board will meet at mutually agreeable times to survey industry conditions and trade problems. Upon request of either the Union or the Association, the Joint Arbitration Board shall meet as a fact-finding body to determine whether any Employer has become delinquent in the payment of wages, travel, or subsistence owed under this Agreement. At any such hearing, the party that requested the Joint Arbitration Board meeting shall present evidence of such a delinquency, and the accused Employer shall present its books and records to evidence the payment of wages, travel, and subsistence. The Joint Arbitration Board shall thereupon render a factual finding as to whether the Employer is delinquent in the payment of wages, travel, or subsistence owed under this Agreement. If the Joint Arbitration Board makes a factual finding that the Employer is so delinquent, the Union’s time period for filing a grievance to collect that delinquency shall commence when the factual finding of delinquency is rendered. (The term “delinquent,” for the purpose of this provision, shall refer to a wholesale or widespread delinquency, not a failure to pay on one or a small number of employees or a good faith dispute over the amount owed.)