RECOGNITION AND CONTRACT COVERAGE Clause Samples

RECOGNITION AND CONTRACT COVERAGE. (a) The Union is hereby recognized as the sole collective bargaining agency for an appropriate unit consisting of all employees working for the Employer within the jurisdiction of the Union, except meat cutters, apprentices, meat wrappers and other meat department employees. Store managers who are su­ pervisors within the meaning of Section 2 (11) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, and other persons clas­ sified by the Employer as supervisors under the law are specifically excluded hereunder, and none of the terms of this agreement shall be applicable to such supervisors. (b) All work and services (not defined as supervisory under Section 2, (11) N.L.R.A) connected with or incidental to the handling or selling of all ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇­ ▇▇▇▇ offered for sale to the public in the Employer’s retail establishment shall be performed only by employees within the appropriate unit as defined in this agreement; except such work as may be performed by employees working ex­ clusively in the meat department, and who are engaged in the handling, cut­ ting, selling, processing, wrapping, or displaying of fresh, frozen or processed meats, poultry, fish and sea food pro­ ducts in said department; and except such work as is performed under pre­ vailing practices in San Francisco at the point of delivery by a driver-salesman engaged in servicing the retail markets with merchandise directly from a deliv­ ery vehicle. This provision shall be subject to the following additional conditions: (1) Single owners or two bona fide partners each holding an equal inter­ est in a grocery or delicatessen store of an equal partnership are not re­ stricted by this agreement as to the amount of non-supervisory work they may perform. (2) In stores other than Safeway that have operated since February 1, 1955, where the owner is not actively engaged on the premises, the existing practices and policies, as determined at said time by the joint Union-In­ dustry survey conducted by ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ with respect to non-supervisory work performed by the over-all supervisory store manager shall remain in effect; and further, as to any store opening after said date a similar survey at the Union’s option during the second thirty days of operation of such stores shall determine the amount of such non-supervisory work that may be performed by the over-all supervisory store manager. With respect to Safe­ way, existing company policy provid­ ing that the primary function of the over-all supervisory location m...