Deduction of Dues The Company shall deduct from the pay period which contains the twentieth (20th) day of the month, from wages due and payable to each employee coming within the scope of this Collective Agreement, an amount equivalent to the uniform monthly union dues of the Union, subject to the conditions and exceptions set forth hereunder.
31.01 The amount to be deducted shall be equivalent to the regular dues payment of the Union and shall not include initiation fees or special assessments. The amount to be deducted shall not be changed during the term of the Agreement excepting to conform with a change in the amount of regular dues of the Union in accordance with its constitutional provisions.
31.02 Membership in the Union shall be available to any employee eligible under the constitution of the Union on payment of the initiation or reinstatement fee uniformly required of all other such applicants by the Local Lodge. Membership shall not be denied for reasons of race, national origin, color, religion, sex or marital status.
31.03 Deductions shall commence on the first pay period which contains the twentieth (20th) day of the month in the month employment last commences in a position covered by this Agreement or such other date as may be mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union, subject to the provisions of Clauses 31.04 and 31.05.
31.04 If the wages of an employee payable on the payroll for the last pay period of any month are insufficient to permit the deduction of the full amount of dues, no such deductions shall be made from the wages of such employee by the Company in such month. The Company shall not, because the employee did not have sufficient wages payable to her on the designated payroll, carry forward and deduct from any subsequent wages the dues not deducted in an earlier month.
31.05 Only payroll deductions now or hereafter required by law, deduction of monies due or owing the Company, pension deductions and deductions of provident funds shall be made from wages prior to the deduction of dues.
31.06 The amounts of dues so deducted from wages accompanied by a statement of deductions from individuals, shall be remitted by the Company to the Union as may be mutually agreed by the Union and the Company, not later than twenty-one (21) calendar days following the pay period in which the deductions are made.
31.07 The Company shall not be responsible financially or otherwise, either to the Union or to any employee for any failure to make deductions or for making improper or inaccurate deductions or remittances. However, in any instance in which an error occurs in the amount of any deduction of dues from an employee's wages the Company shall adjust it directly with the employee. In the event of any mistake by the Company in the amount of its remittance to the Union, the Company shall adjust the amount in a subsequent remittance. The Company's liability for any and all amounts deducted pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall terminate at the time it remits the amounts payable to the Union.
31.08 The question of what, if any, compensation shall be paid the Company by the Union in recognition of services performed under this Agreement shall be left in abeyance subject to reconsideration at the request of either party on fifteen (15) days' notice in writing.
31.09 In the event of any action at law against the parties hereto resulting from any deduction or deductions from payrolls made or to be made by the Company pursuant to this Article of this Agreement, all parties shall cooperate fully in the defense of such action. Each party shall bear its own cost of such defense except that if at the request of the Union, counsel fees are incurred these shall be borne by the Union. Save as aforesaid, the Union shall indemnify and save harmless the Company from any losses, damages, costs, liability or expenses suffered or sustained by it as a result of any such deduction or deductions from payrolls.
