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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 2608010" data-attributes="member: 14176">I&#039;m not in the East, I am in the Central Region and our Article 4 &quot;Maintenance Of Standards&quot; language reads as follows.ARTICLE 4 - MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDSThe Employer agrees that all conditions of employment in his/her individual operation relating to wages, hours of work, overtime differentials and general working conditions shall be maintained at not less than the highest standards in effect at the time of the signing of this Agreement, and the conditions of employment shall be improved wherever specific provisions for improvement are made elsewhere in this Agreement. It is agreed that the provisions of thisSection shall not apply to inadvertent or bonafide errors made by the Employer or the Union in applying the terms and conditions of this Agreementif such error is corrected within ninety (90) days from the date of error. Any disagreement between the local union and the Employer, with respect to this matter, shall be subject to the grievance procedure. This provision does not give the Employer the right to impose or continue wages,hours and working condition less than those contained in this Agreement.Sound familiar???It should, because it is word for word the same as your Western Region, Article 23, Maintenance Of Standards language.So do you want to try and tell me again how the West was able to &quot;carve out&quot; of the H&amp;W language contained in the National Master, when we in the Central Region were told it was not possible?Btw, you did get one thing right out of all of that. I am mad, on several levels. I just don&#039;t let it define me. Thanks for trying to explain.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 2608010, member: 14176"] I'm not in the East, I am in the Central Region and our Article 4 "Maintenance Of Standards" language reads as follows. ARTICLE 4 - MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS [I]The Employer agrees that all conditions of employment in his/her individual operation relating to wages, hours of work, overtime differentials and general working conditions shall be maintained at not less than the highest standards in effect at the time of the signing of this Agreement, and the conditions of employment shall be improved wherever specific provisions for improvement are made elsewhere in this Agreement. It is agreed that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to inadvertent or bonafide errors made by the Employer or the Union in applying the terms and conditions of this Agreement if such error is corrected within ninety (90) days from the date of error. Any disagreement between the local union and the Employer, with respect to this matter, shall be subject to the grievance procedure. This provision does not give the Employer the right to impose or continue wages,hours and working condition less than those contained in this Agreement. [/I] Sound familiar??? It should, because it is word for word the same as your Western Region, Article 23, Maintenance Of Standards language. So do you want to try and tell me again how the West was able to "carve out" of the H&W language contained in the National Master, when we in the Central Region were told it was not possible? Btw, you did get one thing right out of all of that. I am mad, on several levels. I just don't let it define me. Thanks for trying to explain. [/QUOTE]

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