Membership Dues and Check Off. All employees in the Collective Bargaining Unit for more than thirty (30) days and upon becoming Union members by signing a legally valid membership/dues authorization card, shall pay dues consistent with the provisions of the membership/dues authorization card,
Membership Dues and Check Off. (a) The Employer shall deduct once each month from the pay of each full-time employee the amount equal to his regular monthly Union dues. Such monthly dues are uniformly levied upon all members of the Union in accordance with its constitution and by-laws. The amount of such dues shall be certified to the Employer by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Union. The dues so deducted shall be turned over by the Employer to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Union within fifteen days after deduction is made and before the end of the current month for which deduction was made commencing in the month following the month of hire. The Union shall indemnify and hold the Employer harmless from any claims, suits, judgments, attachments and from any other form of liability arising as a result of such deductions made in accordance with the provisions of this Article. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article, the Employer shall not be prevented from allocating employment to any person because the Union has denied him membership unless such person has refused to tender the Union dues uniformly required as a means of maintaining membership in the Union or, in the case of non-members, has refused to tender in lieu thereof an amount equal to such Union dues.
