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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 502907" data-attributes="member: 14176">Steve, sorry to hear that you found out the hard way.The hypocrisy has always been evident to me.The bonus system is the most obvious example to me.How can a driver beat the time study without shortchanging the methods?Without skipping lunch and breaks?Instead who do they observe?The overallowed. Also thought you might find this contractual language interesting: Section 20.4 Safety and Health CommitteesThere shall be Safety and Health Committees to cover all full-timeand part-time employees. There shall be one (1) committee perCenter unless the number of employees and/or job classificationswithin a center dictate the establishment of more than one (1) committee.The respective committees will be comprised of a mutuallyagreed to number of bargaining unit representatives and up to anequal number of management representatives.Bargaining unit members who seek to serve on the Safety andHealth Committee may volunteer to do so, with approval of theLocal Union. The Union co-chair of the committee(s) shall beselected by the bargaining unit members of the committee.Each committee shall meet at least once each month at a mutuallyagreeable time and place. The Employer shall provide committeemembers with adequate time to perform committee functions, asdescribed in paragraphs 1 through 7 below.Each committee shall perform functions including, but not limitedto:1. Creating sub-committees, on an as needed basis, to investigatespecific issues of safety and health concern. These committees shallreport to the full committee.2. Developing and maintaining minutes for all meetings, withcopies to all committee members and posted on designated safetybulletin boards.3. Conducting periodic inspections of the facility to ensure thatthere is a safe, healthful and sanitary working environment in eachcenter.4. Accompanying governmental, union, and/or Company healthand safety professionals on facility inspection tours. The Employermay limit the number of bargaining unit members of the committeeaccompanying such an inspection tour.5. Receiving information pertaining to lost workday injury/accidentcauses and review results of the investigation of suchinjuries/accidents.6. Receiving copies of the center’s OSHA Illness and Injury logsand the facility’s man-hours.7. Receiving the Company sponsored training to enable committeemembers to effectively perform their respective functions as safetyand health committee members.Any information provided to a CHSP committee will not be sharedoutside the committee without the Employer’s consent.If the committee is unable to resolve a safety and health concern andall steps of the Comprehensive Health and Safety Process (CHSP)have been exhausted, the issue will be subject to the grievance procedure.</blockquote>

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