PARI-MUTUEL EMPLOYEES GUILD OF
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“ W O R K R U L E S ”
PREAMBLE:
The Union
of Pari-Mutuel Employees Guild, SEIU, AFL-CIO Local 280 has, under the
applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements currently in effect, an obligation
to provide qualified clerks to each race track and to each satellite facility
for each race meeting conducted in the State of California.
Based
upon this obligation, the following work rules shall apply for all members of
Local 280. In most cases the following
points merely interpret and clarify the intent of our existing
Constitution and By-Laws and our Collective Bargaining Agreements. In others, they provide guidelines for
special situations which, though not specifically covered, require consistent
and judicious control.
Any
effort to apply the following principles in a narrow or self-serving fashion
will create undue and unfair hardship on fellow members.
It should
be noted that the following policies are intended for interpretation by mature
and reasonable members.
APPLICATIONS:
1. Members must indicate to the union whether they are
available as Regular Employees or Weekend/Holiday Employees. From this information the Union shall create
and maintain Two (2) types of Work
lists; one type for members who wish
to work each and every day or night at a given race track/satellite facility,
and another type for those who wish
to work Week-ends/Holidays only. (Article V, Section 10 of the By-Laws)
EMPLOYMENT QUALIFICATIONS:
2. Any member more than Thirty-Two (32) days delinquent in
repayment of obligations to the Mutuel Welfare Fund shall be removed from any
and all existing work lists until the deficit is resolved.
3. Any
union member schooled at a given race track/satellite facility shall not be
presumed qualified and eligible for the
new classification until a subsequent race track/satellite facility begins.
WORK LISTS
4. Work lists are prepared for each race
track/satellite facility by the Union Office based upon
timely, notification to the union. Members shall be
granted work assignments, including premium requests, in accordance with either
order of preference as supported by the seniority status. (Article V, Section 1
of the By-Laws)
5. Work lists are prepared and updated by the appropriate
business representative in three categories ,as follows:
A. A Regular Worklist - A list of members who have
applied for and may reasonably expect to work each and every day.
B. A Replacement Worklist - A list of members who may
expect to work only in the event that the Regular Worklist is either
temporarily enlarged, or upon the occasion that
a member on the Regular Worklist is absent and must be temporarily replaced.
C. A Week-end/Holiday Worklist - A
list of those members who wish to work Week-ends/ Holidays only
.
D. In the event of a special shift (in lieu of an Early Bird Shift), a special
list will be created
in Seniority
Order for that day only, on the first day of the work week, on a voluntary
basis. (Article V, Section 10 of the By-Laws).
E.
Week-end/Holiday Retirees-members who participate in the W.H.R. program
may use their W.H.R. seniority number to work weekends and holidays. W.H.R. day
shift is Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays. W.H.R. night shift is Friday, Saturday
and Holidays.
6. Members whose names appear on more than
one work list for conflicting race tracks/satellite facilities are required to
notify the Union or the Business Representative, no less than Seventy-two (72)
hours prior to the opening of a given race track/satellite facility of the race
track/satellite facility, at which they intend to work. Failure to so notify
the
7. At race track/satellite facilities receiving more than One
(1) signal, each signal will be considered a separate meeting with it’s own
separate work list under the following Work Rules: # 13 (A thru D) and # 14.
REPORTING FOR WORK:
8. Members who are on a work list that do not appear as
scheduled for work without notifying
the appropriate Mutuel office of their
impending absence shall be made to forfeit employment the next day of work.
9. Members on a Replacement work list who are employed
on any week-day will take hiring precedence for succeeding Week-end/Holiday
employment over members on the Week-end/Holiday work list. (Article V, Section 10 of the By-Laws)
10. No members will be considered to be on the Regular Work list
merely be working opening day at any given race track/satellite facility.
LEAVING/RETURNING SEPARATE RACE TRACKS/SATELLITE
FACILITIES:
11. Each host track and each satellite
facility receiving the host signal shall be considered a separate meeting with
it’s own separate work list.
12. Any member beginning a race track/satellite facility, or
entering a race track/satellite facility in progress will be expected to
complete said race track/satellite facility, except under certain carefully
controlled circumstances. The following,
therefore, are the conditions for leaving a race track/satellite facility, and
the stipulations for later returning to the original race track/satellite
facility.
LEAVE
IN MID-MEETING RETURN TO ORIGINAL MEETING
A. Bumped or no-fault layoff from Upon conclusion of an alternative race track/
Regular Work list.
satellite facility, or in the event of a bump or
no-fault layoff from the Regular Work list
at the
next race track/satellite facility.
B. Voluntarily leaving a race track/ Not
in the same race meeting.
satellite facility in progress from
a Regular Work list to open a
new race track/satellite facility.
C. Voluntarily leaving a race track/
May leave race track/satellite facility in progress
satellite facility in progress from
from Replacement or Week-end/Holiday list for a
Replacement list or Week-end/
regular position at alternative race track/satellite
if bumped from regular work list or at
conclusion of
alternative race track/satellite facility.
D. Dispatched by the
fill Contract obligations. facility or if bumped from a Regular Work
list, or
re-dispatched to fulfill Contract
obligations
.
13. Any members who at a given race track/satellite facility are
offered, but refuse an alternate position to that which they have indicated as
their first choice, or those with one choice only, will not be considered as
either bumped or laid off.
Members leaving a race track/satellite facility
under such circumstances may not return to the original race track/satellite facility
in the same season under any conditions whatsoever.
GENERAL:
14. Members hired either as replacements for other employees who
are absent or granted assignments resulting from an enlarged crew, will be made
from the Replacement Work list in order of seniority and classification
preference.
15. No member shall be permitted to work more than Six (6) days
consecutively under the Collective Bargaining Agreements with the race
tracks/satellite facilities, except by Board action to cover special emergencies.
16. Members will not be allowed to leave an active or
concluding race track/satellite facility and bump into a successive race track/satellite facility on a Sunday.
17. Members will not be permitted to leave an active or concluding
race track/satellite facility and bump into another race track/satellite
facility if the remaining time gap at the alternative race track/satellite
facility is Six (6) days or less.
18. No member, under the jurisdiction of Local 280 will be allowed to work more than One (1) shift in a single racing day ahead of a member who has not been assigned and is available for work that day. Said member will be fined One (1) day’s wage for every double shift worked.
Members who have an assigned shift at night, and who work during a day shift when “all union” are used, are allowed to use their seniority number to work their assigned night shift. Union members always work ahead of permit workers.
19. Members who
are Extra Employees Only at a race track/satellite facility where they are
obligated
and have fulfilled their obligation at that race track/satellite facility, may, with proper notification to the Business Representative, after all Union Members at another race track/satellite facility are hired, work ahead of non-union (permit) at another race track/satellite facility.
20. Members effected by the closure of a race
track/satellite facility for a period of Five (5) racing days or
more, may elect to work another race track/satellite
facility, based upon seniority, during this time, but these numbers effected
must return to original race
track/satellite facility upon it’s reopening.
21. The preceding Work Rules have been voted
in by Membership and cannot be changed or waived except by a majority vote of
the Executive Board or Membership with exception of Work Rule # 15.
REVISED
Rules and
Resolutions Committee
Rusta McConnaughhay, Chairperson Marcie Shelton
Percy Ives Glenn
Stefan
Germaine Payne Jeanette
Zapata