LETTER OF AGREEMENT FOR C.B.A. commencing 7/01/2001 (PDF File)

1. Five year agreement with wage increases of 25.75 % over that period. 1St year-2nd year-3rd year-4th year-5th year
      4.5 %   6%   5%   5%   5.25 %

   (2+ 2.5)   (3+3)

2. All Foreman shall receive $3.00 per hour more in wages than Journeyman.

3. All General Foreman shall receive $ 6.00 per hour in wages more than Journeyman.

4. Carpenters shall only work 35 hour work weeks. ( 40 hour week must have written notification to the D.C. prior to commencement of job and must continue for the duration of the job.

5. All contractors will make sure that any products they ask carpenters to handle will have a UBC stamp on it as long as it is within their power to do so.

6. All jobs regardless of what type agreement they work under shall have a NYCDC certified shop steward.

7. All shanties shall be assembled by carpenters on the job whether they are built in place or they are knockdown shanties as long as it is within that contractors power to do so.

8.  All Carpenters will be given time to wrap up their tools and wash up before lunch and quitting time.

9. Carpenters will be hired by the job referral list at the district council. The 50/50 rule will be enforced and the contractor can hire whom he wants on his 50% ratio. The other 50 % will come from the job referral list and all requests will be honored from the job referral list, providing those carpenters requested are members of the NYCDC. All requests must be made for N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters only. All Carpenters on a job site who are not members of the N.Y.C. District Council of

Carpenters will be matched from the out of work referral list one for one, and requests cannot be used to match out of town carpenters.

10. There will be no quotas imposed on Carpenters working on a jobsite.

11. We want apprentices to learn the trade. All apprentices must work a minimum of 50% of a work week on the tools with journeyman while employed on a regular basis.

12. Any contractor found guilty of offering cash to Carpenters for hours worked shall pay a fine of $5000 to the carpenters relief and charity fund after he has paid all monies that were due to the benefit funds. This will be decided through the C.B.A. grievance and arbitration clause.

13. In the agreement the monetary amounts need to be changed to the following: Tools   $600 [ Finish ]

$500 [concrete ]

Overcoat   $150

Other clothing   $150

Shoes   $125

14. Other than an emergency, notice of all overtime work should be given to the Carpenters before noon if possible.

15. Carpenters will never be penalized for refusing to work overtime.

16. All NYCDC certified shop stewards shall be given time to deliver his or her shop steward reports for that work week to the union hall in the jurisdictional area they are working in and the time must be agreed between Company and Steward.

17. No Carpenter is to start work before the designated starting time.

18.  When a Carpenter is terminated from a job, his or her wages and benefits must be paid in full at that time. If the employer through no fault of his own cannot have the benefits there at that time , they will be allowed a twenty four hour grace period to overnight the benefits to the members home or local union.

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Section 10. - When the employer desires to engage in manufacturing custom fixtures and mill-cabinet products, within the jurisdiction of Local 2090,then it shall be governed by the appropriate agreement signed between the District Council and the Association of employers engaged in such work.

20. When a signatory contractor wishes to layoff a shop steward during continuous employment, the contractor must notify the union and have a meeting on the job with the union within 24 hours. If termination takes place a letter must be sent to the union.

21. In order to protect and preserve for the employees engaged in the manufacturing of custom fixture and mill cabinet products used in the trade, and in order to prevent any device or subterfuge to avoid the protection and preservation of such work, it is hereby agreed that all custom manufactured mill cabinet and architectural woodwork products which are specified and required in the employers contract with the client, including doors specifically designed as matching components of said products, shall be fabricated in a signatory shop within an area encompassing the five boroughs of New York City and extending approximately 40 miles beyond the city's borders. Doors, jambs and related components which do not fall within the stated category will be excluded from this provision.

22. No work normally built by carpenters on the job will be fabricated off the job with anyone other than union Carpenters being paid the same wages and benefit package.

23. All Carpenters will be allowed a ten minute coffee break in the morning . This will also be allowed in the afternoon when working 40 hours.

24. The apprentice ratio in the agreement will be raised to two apprentices to every five journeymen and one of those apprentices must be a third or fourth year apprentice referred from the out of work list by the District Council.

25. The Union and the Association agree to explore other forms of worker's compensation insurance, such as Alternative Dispute Resolution, (ADR) to help our union contractors be more competitive.

Accepted and agreed to on June 28nd 2001 by :