Indefinite Production Interruptions. A. If supervision determines a job will be down for the balance of the day, and if there is no work in the employee's classification, the Company will assign other work as may be available.
B. For employees in the Secondary Department, on the following days, the employee whose job is down will accept available work in his or her classification or bump the lowest signed person in his or her classification and on his or her shift as outlined in D through H, below. If he or she chooses not to bump the lowest person in his or her classification, he or she will accept another job from available work offered.
C. For employees in the Forge Department, the following will apply in addition to D through H, below.
1. In the event a secondary unit is not available, the crew will be assigned to perform work as needed and will retain their respective rates of pay for the balance of the shift.
2. The affected forge crew members will be allowed to exercise seniority to displace an employee assigned to another forge unit beginning at the start of shift on the second day of their unit being down. At such time, the employees will be allowed to bump.
D. When work is available in an employee's classification under this section and there is an excess number of available employees in the classification to do the work required and the excess employees are to be used in another classification, the senior employee will have the option to go outside of his or her classification to work on an open job in another classification. When an employee bumps the lowest seniority employee in his or her classification, on his or her shift, he or she must remain there for 30 calendar days (unless he or she is bumped by another employee) after which he or she may either remain there or bump any employee in the department which he or she has the seniority, skill, and the ability to do the work required, regardless of shift. This will not constitute shift preference. If he or she is not bumped by another employee, he or she must remain on this job until either this job goes down, his or her original job starts up, or he or she moves to another job through the job posting provisions.
E. An employee whose unit or job is down, or an employee who is bumped from his or her job due to another employee's unit or job being down, must bump on a signed job under this section within 60 calendar days of such displacement or forfeit his or her rights to do so. An employee who has bumped under this section and ...
