ARTICLE XVIII

Maintenance of Standards

SECTION 1. It is the Company's intention to continue its past practices with respect to employee benefits that are not expressed in the contract. Should the Company contemplate diminution of any such employee benefits affecting bargaining unit employees, the matter will be discussed with the Union in advance of the change.

SECTION 2. The Employer shall not enter into any other written or oral agreement with any employee or group of employees covered by this Agreement which in any way violates the wages, hours, or working conditions of this Agreement. The Local Union shall have the right to recover from the Employer in its own name and on the employee's behalf the amount of any wages or other benefits which any member may waive or assign to the Employer.