Common use of MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES Clause in Contracts

MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. A. Each shop shall have a Head Meat Cutter and he shall be a journeyman meat cutter and he may perform all the duties of, and shall direct the work, movements and operations of the meat department employees. B. A journeyman is one who has qualified as a skilled meat cut­ ter. His duties shall include the receiving, cutting, grinding, slic­ ing, preparing, processing, sealing, wrapping, bagging, pricing, fabricating and serving of all items in the meat department and the performance of all work incidental thereto. C. Any apprentice must be eighteen (18) years of age or older, learning all details and developing skills for performing the duties of a journeyman meat cutter. The Employer agrees to assign each apprentice to various jobs in order to give him the opportunity to qualify as a journeyman. The apprenticeship training period shall be for a two-year period. In cases where the apprentice has not qualified as a journey­ man at the end of the apprenticeship training period in the judge­ ment of the Employer, such apprenticeship period may be ex­ tended an additional six (6) months and the apprentice shall be paid at the top apprentice rate during this period. Nothing in this Section C wil prevent the Employer from ad­ vancing an apprentice to a journeyman before the end of the ap­ prenticeship training period if, in the judgement of the Employer, the apprentice is qualified. D. Employees engaged in weighing, wrapping, pricing and dis­ playing shall be eighteen (18) years of age or over. Wrappers may be employed to wrap, scale, price, label, display, board, tray, bag poultry and other items, stock meats and slice cheese, bacon and delicatessen items with slicing machines, and to clean work tables and any equipment that they work with, including removable racks and display cases, glass, and to disassemble and clean re­ frigerated conveyor troughs, but excluding cleaning electiric saws, grinders, tenderizers and xxxxx machines. Wrappers shall not be permitted to cut any red meat, pork, lamb, poultry, rabbits, or fish. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classification will have the opportunity to transfer without loss of seniority or re­ duction in straight-time hourly wage rate to the apprentice class­ ification when a vacancy exists, provided they have the skills, abilities, and physical capacity to perform the work. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classifications wishing to make application for such openings shall do so in writing with copies to both the Employer’s designated official and the Union. When a wrapper is assigned to the journeymen or apprentice classification, the Wrapper will retain seniority in the Wrapper classification for a period of one (1) year. After one (1) year, if the former Wrapper continues to be assigned to the apprentice or journeymen classification, his or her seniority date will be the date assigned as an apprentice or journeyman. If the former Wrapper is to be laid off, the former Wrapper may elect to be reas­ signed to the Wrapper classification rather than accept a layoff. If the former Wrapper elects this option, his or her seniority date shall be the date originally assigned as a Wrapper. If the former Wrapper has returned to the Wrapper classifica­ tion and is recalled to the journeyman or apprentice classifica­ tion, the Wrapper may accept the recall or remain in the Wrapper classification without further recall rights to the journeyman or apprentice classifications. A Wrapper with one (1) year of full-time service with the Em­ ployer shall receive six (6) months credit upon entrance to Xx­ xxxxxxxx training. E. The Employer and the Union agree that any qualified em­ ployee eighteen (18) years or older, regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex or national origin, is eligible to work, and will be given an equal opportunity to work in any job classification covered by this Contract. F. Head Meat Outers shall be allowed to voluntarily return to the journeyman classification without loss of seniority upon the giving of thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Company. The return of the Head Meat Cutter to the journeyman classification shall be conditioned upon the Employer having a qualified Head Meat Cutter replacement readily available to assume the respon­ sibilities of the Head Meat Cutter desiring to return to the jour­ xxxxxx classification.

MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. A. Each shop shall have a Head Meat Cutter and he shall be a journeyman meat cutter and he may perform all the duties of, and shall direct the work, movements and operations of the meat department depart­ ment employees. B. A journeyman is one who has qualified as a skilled meat cut­ tercutter. His duties shall include the receiving, cutting, grinding, slic­ ingslicing, preparing, processing, sealing, wrapping, bagging, pricing, fabricating and serving of all items in the meat department and the performance of all work incidental thereto. C. Any An apprentice must be eighteen (18) years of age or older, learning all details and developing skills for performing the duties of a journeyman meat cutter. The Employer agrees to assign each apprentice to various jobs in order to give him the opportunity to qualify as a journeyman. The apprenticeship training period shall be for a two-two (2) year period. In cases where the apprentice has not qualified as a journey­ man journeyman at the end of the apprenticeship training period in the judge­ ment judgment of the Employer, such apprenticeship period may be ex­ tended extended to an additional six (6) months and the apprentice shall be paid at the top apprentice rate during this period. Nothing in this Section C wil will prevent the Employer from ad­ vancing advanc­ ing an apprentice to a journeyman before the end of the ap­ prenticeship apprentice­ ship training period if, in the judgement judgment of the Employer, the apprentice is qualified. D. Employees engaged in weighing, wrapping, pricing and dis­ playing shall be eighteen (18) years of age or over. Wrappers may be employed to wrap, scale, price, label, display, board, tray, bag poultry and other items, stock meats and slice cheese, bacon and delicatessen items with slicing machines, and to clean work tables and any equipment equip­ ment that they work with, with including removable racks and on display cases, glass, and to disassemble and clean re­ frigerated refrigerated conveyor troughs, but excluding cleaning electiric electric saws, grinders, tenderizers and xxxxx machines. Wrappers shall not be permitted to cut any red meat, pork, lamb, poultry, rabbits, rabbits or fish. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classification will have the opportunity to transfer without loss of seniority or re­ duction in straight-time hourly wage rate to the apprentice class­ ification when a vacancy exists, provided they have the skills, abilities, and physical capacity to perform the work. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classifications wishing to make application for such openings shall do so in writing with copies to both the Employer’s designated official and the Union. When a wrapper is assigned to the journeymen or apprentice classification, the Wrapper will retain seniority in the Wrapper classification for a period of one (1) year. After one (1) year, if the former Wrapper continues to be assigned to the apprentice or journeymen classification, his or her seniority date will be the date assigned as an apprentice or journeyman. If the former Wrapper is to be laid off, the former Wrapper may elect to be reas­ signed to the Wrapper classification rather than accept a layoff. If the former Wrapper elects this option, his or her seniority date shall be the date originally assigned as a Wrapper. If the former Wrapper has returned to the Wrapper classifica­ tion and is recalled to the journeyman or apprentice classifica­ tion, the Wrapper may accept the recall or remain in the Wrapper classification without further recall rights to the journeyman or apprentice classifications. A Wrapper with one (1) year of full-time service with the Em­ ployer shall receive six (6) months credit upon entrance to Xx­ xxxxxxxx training. E. The Employer and the Union agree that any qualified em­ ployee eighteen (18) years or older, regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex or national origin, is eligible to work, and will be given an equal opportunity to work in any job classification covered by this Contract. F. Head Meat Outers shall be allowed to voluntarily return to the journeyman classification without loss of seniority upon the giving of thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Company. The return of the Head Meat Cutter to the journeyman classification shall be conditioned upon the Employer having a qualified Head Meat Cutter replacement readily available to assume the respon­ sibilities of the Head Meat Cutter desiring to return to the jour­ xxxxxx classification.

MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. A. Each shop shall have a Head Meat Cutter and he shall be a journeyman meat cutter and he may perform all the duties of, and shall direct the work, movements and operations of the meat department depart­ ment employees. B. A journeyman is one who has qualified as a skilled meat cut­ tercutter. His duties shall include the receiving, cutting, grinding, slic­ ingslicing, preparing, processing, sealing, wrapping, bagging, pricing, fabricating and serving of all items in the meat department and the performance of all work incidental thereto. C. Any apprentice An Apprentice must be eighteen (18) years of age or older, learning all details and developing skills for performing the duties of a journeyman meat cutter. The Employer agrees to assign each apprentice to various jobs in order to give him the opportunity to qualify as a journeyman. The apprenticeship training period shall be a three (3) year period until May 1, 1969 and after that date appren­ ticeship training shall be for a two-two (2) year period. In cases where the apprentice has not qualified as a journey­ man at the end of the apprenticeship training period in the judge­ ment of the Employer, such apprenticeship period may be ex­ tended an additional six (6) months and the apprentice shall be paid at the top apprentice rate during this period. Nothing in this Section C wil prevent the Employer from ad­ vancing an apprentice to a journeyman before the end of the ap­ prenticeship training period if, in the judgement of the Employer, the apprentice is qualified. D. Employees engaged in weighing, wrapping, pricing and dis­ playing shall be eighteen (18) years of age or over. Wrappers may be employed to wrap, scale, price, label, display, board, tray, bag poultry and other items, stock meats and slice cheese, bacon and delicatessen items with slicing machines, and to clean work tables and any equipment that they work with, with including removable racks and on display cases, glass, and to disassemble and clean re­ frigerated refrigerated conveyor troughs, but excluding cleaning electiric electric saws, grinders, tenderizers ten- derizers and xxxxx machines. Wrappers shall not be permitted to cut any red meat, pork, lamb, poultry, rabbits, rabbits or fish. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classification will have the opportunity to transfer without loss of seniority or re­ duction in straight-time hourly wage rate to the apprentice class­ ification when a vacancy exists, provided they have the skills, abilities, and physical capacity to perform the work. Employees in the Weighers and Wrappers classifications wishing to make application for such openings shall do so in writing with copies to both the Employer’s designated official and the Union. When a wrapper is assigned to the journeymen or apprentice classification, the Wrapper will retain seniority in the Wrapper classification for a period of one (1) year. After one (1) year, if the former Wrapper continues to be assigned to the apprentice or journeymen classification, his or her seniority date will be the date assigned as an apprentice or journeyman. If the former Wrapper is to be laid off, the former Wrapper may elect to be reas­ signed to the Wrapper classification rather than accept a layoff. If the former Wrapper elects this option, his or her seniority date shall be the date originally assigned as a Wrapper. If the former Wrapper has returned to the Wrapper classifica­ tion and is recalled to the journeyman or apprentice classifica­ tion, the Wrapper may accept the recall or remain in the Wrapper classification without further recall rights to the journeyman or apprentice classifications. A Wrapper with one (1) year of full-time service with the Em­ ployer shall receive six (6) months credit upon entrance to Xx­ xxxxxxxx training. E. The Employer and the Union agree that any qualified em­ ployee eighteen (18) years or older, regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex or national origin, is eligible to work, and will be given an equal opportunity to work in any job classification covered by this Contract. F. Head Meat Outers shall be allowed to voluntarily return to the journeyman classification without loss of seniority upon the giving of thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Company. The return of the Head Meat Cutter to the journeyman classification shall be conditioned upon the Employer having a qualified Head Meat Cutter replacement readily available to assume the respon­ sibilities of the Head Meat Cutter desiring to return to the jour­ xxxxxx classification.