Subcontracting

SECTION 1. For the purpose of preserving work and job opportunities for the employees covered by this agreement, the Employer agrees that no work or service of the kind, nature, or type covered by, presently performed, or hereafter assigned to the collective bargaining unit will be subcontracted, transferred, leased, assigned, or conveyed in whole or in part to any other plant, person, or nonunion employees, unless otherwise provided in this Agreement and is presently being subcontracted. The Company will discuss any additional subcontracting with the Union prior to subcontracting such work.

SECTION 2. The work normally performed by the Distribution Division employee will be done by the Company insofar as it is practical to do so.

The Company reserves the right to contract for such work when, in the judgment of the Company, special equipment is required or a time limitation is involved.

However, when a contractor or contractors are engaged in such work, normally performed by Company employees, in any calendar year, Distribution Division employees, who held such eligible positions on December 1, 2001, and any employee hired or transferred into the Distribution Division through January 1, 2003, will be guaranteed a minimum of thirty-four (34) eight (8) hour Saturdays in the calendar year scheduled at the Company's discretion.  Notification of the scheduling of such Saturdays shall take place no later than the Tuesday prior and employees will have forty-eight (48) hours to accept or decline such offered work.  In the event the Company and Union agree that stormy weather prohibits work being started on Saturday, the day will be banked for the affected individuals.  If, once work has commenced, the Union designee decides that the weather has become stormy, the employees will stop work and will be paid only for the hours worked.  The remainder of the day will not be banked.