BASE CLOSURE. In the event of a base closure the Employer will notify the union and employees as soon as possible. The Employer will provide a minimum of sixty (60) days’ notice for the closing of a base outside Washington State and a minimum of six (6) weeks’ notice for the closing of a base inside Washington State. The employees will be laid off in order of seniority using the following process: A. a bump pool of nurses working in ALNW positions equal to the number of nurses being laid off as a result of the base closure will be developed. The bump pool will consist of the least senior nurses working throughout the Airlift Northwest system. B. in order of seniority, nurses from the base being closed will be offered the opportunity to displace any junior nurse in the bump pool. C. nurses who choose not to displace a junior nurse from the bump pool and nurses for whom there is no displacement option will be placed on the Airlift Northwest rehire list and will have full rehire rights in accordance with Article 38 – Seniority, Layoff, Rehire. D. Nurses displaced as a result of (A) above, will be placed on the rehire list and will not have the opportunity to displace a less senior nurse.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
