Safeguards and Resources a. No entity created under this Section may amend or modify the Basic Labor Agreement, recommend or affect the hiring or discipline of any Employee or take any action with respect to contractual grievances.
Safeguards and Resources a. The Company shall provide the members of the Plant Training Committee and the Training Coordinator with such training as is necessary to enable them to perform their responsibilities under this Section with a high degree of competence. Employee participation in the Plant Training Committee shall normally occur during normal work hours. All meeting time and necessary and reasonable expenses of the Plant Training Committee shall be paid for by the Company and Employees attending such meetings shall be compensated in accordance with standard local plant understandings.
Safeguards and Resources. A. No joint committee may amend or modify the Basic Labor Agreement.
Safeguards and Resources. (A) Except as may be approved by the Partnership Committee, no joint committee may amend or modify the Agreement.
Safeguards and Resources. 1. The selection of any consultant to assist in the development of the employee involvement and empowerment process will be mutual.
Safeguards and Resources. No entity created under this Section may amend or modify the Basic Labor Agreement, recommend or affect the hiring or discipline of any Employee or take any action with respect to contractual grievances. Service on any entity created under this Section shall be voluntary, and no Employee may be disciplined for lack of involvement or commitment to the matters covered under this Section. Employee participation or training contemplated in this Section shall normally occur during normal work hours. At the mutual invitation of the Co-Chairs of any committee created under this Section, appropriate Union representatives and Company representatives may attend a committee meeting. All meeting time and necessary and reasonable expenses associated with any committee created under this Section shall be paid for by the Company and Employees attending such meetings in accordance with standard local plant understandings. Joint committees may mutually agree to employ experts from within or outside the Company as consultants; advisors or instructors and such experts shall be jointly selected and assigned. All Union participants involved in any and all joint activities under this Section or in any other joint committee involving members of a Union bargaining unit, shall be chosen and removed from the process exclusively by the relevant Local Union President/Unit Chair and the Chair of the Union Negotiating Committee. All current improvement, involvement and joint programs will be restructured to be consistent with this Section. Following the Effective Date, new improvement programs involving Employee participation may not be implemented without approval of the Union and, where implemented, shall operate in a manner consistent with this Section. This Section shall in no way diminish the Union’s collective bargaining rights regarding changes in technology and work organization that impact Employees.
