POSTED NOVEMBER 1, 2005
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006
IBEW LOCAL UNION 584 REFERRAL PROCEDURE
METHODS AND RULES THIS OFFICE WILL FOLLOW IN OPERATING THE REFERRAL PROCEDURE FOR INSIDE CONSTRUCTION
All applicants for employment must be unemployed in the Electrical Industry.
No applicant shall be permitted to register if employed under the terms of an IBEW Agreement within the inside jurisdiction of Local Union 584. You must quit the employer you are working for first, before you can sign the book to work for another.
Registration for employment will be two parts: The Available-for-Work Book and the Day List.
All applicants for employment will be allowed to sign an available for work book during normal business hours.
Applicants will give the dispatcher information needed to properly place applicants in their Referral Group. A paid up IBEW Local Union Dues Receipt or Information as to prior employment. The information must be in writing and verifiable by the prior employer (s). Applicants may be asked to furnish their W-2 forms, or similar proof of experience at the trade.
Applicants will make initial registration in a register book (available-for-work book), giving Date, Name, Address, Phone Number, State License or No State License. Applicants will re-register each time they again become available for employment. No initial registration will be done on the Available-for-Work Book by telephone or mail.
Applicants must re-register every month in order to retain his place on the Out-of-Work List. Resign in the first ten days of the month. Failure to re-register within the first ten days of the month shall cause said applicant’s name to be removed from the Available-for-Work List.
Applicants may re-register in PERSON, MAIL, FAX, EMAIL or PHONE. If by mail, the Union Office MUST HAVE: Your first and last name (print), IBEW card number or social security number, address, phone number, and write “ I want to re-register on the Available –for-Work book,” then sign your name to the letter. Without this information you may not get re-registered. Mail to IBEW LU 584, PO Box 50313, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74150, Attention Dispatch Officer. Resign by mail must be postmarked no later than your re-register date or you will be removed from the list.
In order to have your name placed on the Day List, you must be registered in the Available-for-Work Book. Your position on the Day List will be determined by your position on the Available-for-Work Book.
All persons wanting to go to work must initial the Day List on the day you want to be dispatched, to be eligible for dispatching.
Initial time will be from 8:00 AM, until 8:15 AM.
Each individual on the Day List will be dispatched in the order of original registration time, date, and referral group, on the out of work book.
All available calls will be offered to each applicant on the Day List in the proper order of referral set forth above, until all calls are filled. Dispatch shall remain open until all calls are filled.
Registrants will be allowed two turndowns without penalty and be rolled completely off the book for a third turndown. They must re-register in person after being rolled off.
Being unavailable for referral when work would have been offered to the registrant shall be considered a turndown. Rejection of the applicant by an employer is not a turndown. There shall be no turndown “hickey’s” for any specialty or restrictive calls.
All referrals will be void 24 hours after issuance, except Saturdays, Sundays, and all holidays, and taken off the books.
When a pre-hire drug test is required. Anyone taking the referral not passing the drug test will be removed from the out of work list for a period of not less than TEN (10) days, For a second offense, removal will be for THIRTY (30) days, If there is a Third offense within one year from the time of the first offense, that person will be brought before the Executive Board.
Exception: If you are on legal medication and make it known to the employer before the drug test.
All short calls will be used for the maximum of ten (10) regular working days and will be extended to include any holidays. Short call dispatching will commence from the last number dispatched or should the name on the short call mark move up do to a regular call. The short call mark will move up also.
If you quit a short call or are fired before the call is completed, you lose your position on the book and must resign.
All regular and short calls received from contractors will be placed on a recorder (night line) by 5 PM of each business day. The recording will give the name of the contractor, where to report for work and requirements for that job. If there is no answer on the Night Line that means there are no calls. The nightline number is (918) 592-2990.
The Business Manager of Local Union 584, or his Assistants, will not be required to give the expected length of any job to an applicant.
If an employer calls for a Journeyman Wireman by name for the sole purpose of filling the position of foreman, the named wireman will be so referred if on the Available-for-work book at least thirty -30- working days and if qualified for Referral Group I.
These methods and rules shall be followed for all applicants, without exception.
All wording appearing in the masculine gender will include the feminine.
Apprentices shall be referred and transferred in accordance with the applicable apprenticeship standards and by the training authority for the apprenticeship committee.
Intermediate Journeyman, shall be referred in accordance with the applicable Intermediate Journeyman standards, and by IBEW Local Union 584.
Teledata referrals shall be referred in accordance with the applicable Teledata standards, and IBEW Local Union 584.
All applicants for employment have four or more years experience in the trade, are residents of the geographical area constituting the normal construction labor marked, have passed a Journeyman Wireman’s examination given by a duly constituted Inside Construction Local Union of the IBEW or have been certified as a Journeyman Wireman by an Inside Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee and who have been employed performing electrical work for a period of at least one year in the past four -4- years in the geographical jurisdiction of IBEW Local Union No. 584.
All applicants for employment who have four or more years experience in the trade and who have passed a Journeyman Wireman’s examination given by a duly constituted Inside Construction Local Union of the IBEW or have been certified as a Journeyman Wireman by an Inside Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee.
All applicants for employment who have two or more years experience in the trade, are residents of the geographical area constituting the normal construction labor market and who have been employed for at least six months in the last three years in the trade under a collective bargaining agreement between the parties to this Agreement.
All applicants for employment who have worked at the trade for more than one year.
Means the following geographical area plus the commuting distance adjacent thereto, which includes the area from which the normal labor supply is secured:
Adair Hughes Okfuskee Pushmataha
Atoka Latimer Okmulgee Rogers
Cherokee LeFlore 1/ Osage 2 / Sequoyah 5 /
Coal Mayes Ottawa Tulsa
Craig McIntosh Pawnee 3 / Wagoner
Creek Muskogee Payne 4 / Washington
Haskell Nowata Pittsburgh
Delaware
1/ Except Braden, Pocola and Spiro Townships
2/ That portion east of State Highway No. 18
3/ That portion east of State Highway No. 18
4/ Eagle, Indian, Mound and Union Townships only
5/ That portion west of Akins, Gans, Hanson, Long and Redlands Townships.
The above geographical area is agreed upon by the parties to include the areas defined by the Secretary of Labor to be the appropriate prevailing wage area under the Davis- Bacon Act to which this Agreement Applies.
Means a person who has maintained his permanent home in the above defined geographical area for a period of not less than one -1- year or who, having had a permanent home in this area, has temporarily left with the intention of returning to this area as his permanent home.
An “examination” shall include experience rating tests if such examination shall have been given prior to the effective date of this procedure, but from and after the date of this procedure, shall include only written and or practical examination given be a duly constituted inside construction Local Union of the IBEW. Reasonable intervals of time for examination are specified as ninety -90- days. An applicant shall be eligible for examination if he has four -4- year’s experience in the trade.
Revised 11/1/2005