2006 - 2011

United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the

Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada

SEC. 10. 

(a) The United Association shall adopt a Union Label, as authorized and approved by the General Executive Board.

(b) The General Officers shall enact rules and regulations for the use of said Union Label by certain qualified employers.

(c) The right and privilege of using the Union Label of the United Association shall not be granted to an employer unless that employer signs a uniform Union Label Agreement providing for the privilege and for the use of said Union Label upon terms and conditions as set forth in said uniform Union Label Agreement.

(d) Before the use of the Union Label may be granted to any employer, such employer must be a party to a United Association Local Union Agreement and must agree to pay the building and construction journeyman’s wage rate to all journeymen members in his employ, or employed in fabricating and assembling of pipe formations, and further, such employer must agree that when journeymen in his employ are employed on construction projects, he will pay the prevailing journeyman’s building and construction wage rate contained in the United Association’s national or the United Association’s local agreement covering the place where the construction work is being done. An employer requesting the use of a Union Label who does not operate as a mechanical contractor or perform field work shall not be required to sign a Local Union Building and Construction Trades Agreement, but can sign a fabrication shop agreement with the Local Union.

(e) Labels shall not be used by any employer in any plant or shop other than the one named in said agreement.

(f) The Union Label shall be used only on pipe, pipe formations, fabricated or processed pipe, pipe work, fittings or fixtures where all of the fabrication, preparation or processing of the pipe for installation is done or performed by journeymen or apprentices receiving the building and construction wage rate. All such fabrication, processing or preparation of any pipe or pipe work or fixtures must be done in the plant, shop or establishment of the employer or on the job site by journeymen and apprentices receiving the building and construction wage rate.

(g) Every employer under the uniform Union Label Agreement with the United Association shall have a shop steward, and it shall be the duty of the shop steward to see and be responsible for the Union Label being placed on all piping, pipe fittings, fixtures and equipment that are fabricated or processed in said plant, shop or establishment. The Union Label must be applied to the piping or pipe fittings, fixtures and equipment in the plant, shop or establishment where fabricated or processed, and said label must at no time be removed.

(h) A valid Union Label of the United Association shall have the name and address of the employer and the Local Union printed on said label.

(i) It shall be the duty of every Local Union, District Council, and member of the United Association to make it generally known to the entire membership of the United Association that all piping, pipe fittings, fixtures and equipment fabricated and processed in a plant, shop or establishment away from the job site shall be prepared by journeymen and apprentices receiving the building and construction wage rate.

(j) The General President shall have the right and authority to cancel or revoke the employer’s use of the Union Label for any violation or breach of the terms of the uniform Union Label Agreement or for any other just cause.

(k) The United Association may adopt a separate Union Label for the fabrication, processing and assembling of all pipe and fixtures for a plumbing system in a fabricating shop. This Union Label shall be authorized and approved by the General Executive Board and its use shall conform to and be governed and controlled by subsections 10(a) through 10(j) inclusive.

(l) In exceptional cases and in order to meet competitive as well as technological changes in the plumbing and pipe fitting industry and to preserve and protect the United Association’s trade jurisdiction, the General Executive Board may adopt a Union Label for employees engaged in modular and other new methods of construction and the General President is empowered to enact rules and regulations for its use and to enter into and execute Union Label Agreements with such employers whose terms may vary from the preceding subsections. Such Union Label Agreements may be executed in the name of the United Association alone or jointly with other building and construction unions.