Common use of UNION-COMPANY RELATIONSHIP Clause in Contracts

UNION-COMPANY RELATIONSHIP. 1. The Company is responsible to direct the work required. The Company shall therefore have no restrictions, except those specifically provided for in the Labor Agreement, in planning, directing, and controlling the operation of all the Company's work, in deciding the number and classification of employees to properly perform the work, in hiring and laying off employees, in transferring employees from job site to job site, in requiring employees to observe the Company's rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Labor Agreement, in requiring all employees to observe all safety regulations, and in suspending or discharging employees for proper cause. 2. The Company agrees that during the period of this Labor Agreement there shall be no lockout of members of the Union or any employees covered by the terms of this Labor Agreement. The Union, its membership, individually and collectively, agree that there shall be no strike, or other interruption of work, it being the desire of all parties to provide uninterrupted service to the public. The Company understands and agrees that the no-strike and grievance- arbitration provisions of this Labor Agreement shall not apply if there are picket lines established by Local 15, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, on or adjacent to the property of ComEd or at customers serviced by the employees of ComEd pursuant to a lawful strike by members of Local 15 who are employed by ComEd. 3. There shall be no discrimination, interference, restraint, or coercion, by the Company or any of its agents, against any employee because of the employee’s membership in the Union or because of any lawful activities on behalf of the Union. The Union or its agents will not solicit, engage in organization work or any other Union activities, during the working time of employees, except as provided in Article 8, Grievance - Arbitration, of this Labor Agreement. 4. Neither the Company nor the Union, through their officers, members, representatives, agents or committees, shall engage in any activity of any kind for the purpose of defeating or evading the terms of this Labor Agreement. 5. Posting of official Union notices on Company property shall be permitted and definite space shall be allotted for this purpose. 6. All employees of the Company covered by the terms of this agreement shall be required to join the Union after 520 straight time hours of employment (or the effective date of this agreement, whichever is later) or to tender the appropriate initiation fees, dues, and assessments to the Union, and to retain membership in the Union or to continue to tender the appropriate initiation fees, dues and assessments to the Union as a condition of employment during the term of this Labor Agreement. 7. Upon presentation of a written check-off authorization from the employee, the Company will deduct from the employees' pay and remit to the Union, initiation fees, dues, and regular and special assessments. The authorization shall be irrevocable for a period of one year, or until the termination of the current Labor Agreement between the Company and the Union, whichever occurs sooner; and the authorization shall be automatically renewed and shall be irrevocable for successive periods of one year or for the period of each succeeding applicable Labor Agreement between the Company and Union, whichever shall be shorter, unless written notice of revocation is given by the employee to the Company and the Union not more than 30 days and not less than 10 days prior to the expiration of each period of one year, or of each applicable Labor Agreement between the Company and the Union, whichever occurs sooner.