Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1633 B. IBKW. LOCAL 40— DmSION OF WORK 1. Iiistallin? of permanent equipment used in the recording, rerecording, or reproduction of sound in connection with the making of motion pictures (excluding engineering worl< and minor alterations of equipment and circuits). 2. Manufacturing of studio electrical sound equipment (excluding engineering work and minor alterations of equipment and circuits). NoTK. — In paragraphs B-1 and B-2 above, the use of the words "minor alterations" shall be construed to include any changes, modifications, alterations, and replacements of component parts of sound and/or electronic equipment, channels, and systems, such as. for example, tubes, pads, conden.sers, transformers, resistors, and the like. 3. All operation, maintenance, and repairs on generators and storage batteries, permanent and portable, except battery charging on trucks or compact jwrtable recording units or channels where the charging of batteries or other operation necessitates only the turning of switches, such as where a tungar charge is used. Note. — A local 695 engineer and/oi service recorder shall be permitted at all times to service and maintain his truck and associates units, and portable units and equipment, on location. 4. All repair work on power unit, such as motors, battery-chacging rectifiers, alternators, and primary power equipment (excluding audio and higher frequency equipment). n. Making up of all cables in sound departments ; service and repair of power cables when not on production. 6. Manufacture, installation, maintenance, service, and repair of the following permanent and fixed installations hi the administration bxiildings and offices : Intercommunicating systems, telephones, dictographs, and buzzers (excluding those used in connection with sound recording and those used on production). 7. Manufacture of public address units ; installation of permanent and fixed public address units. C. IN GENERAL 1. All work and classifications hereinabove set forth as belonging to one local union are hereby w\aived by the other local union, and each union agrees to be bound as specified in the respective divisions of work. 2. It is understood that separate and distinct shops, as between the two local unions, shall be maintained at each studio or place of employment; but that if separate shops are impracticable, then, and in that event, separate sections in the same shop shall be designated and maintained. 5. A man now employed in a job which, by the terms of this agreement, comes M'ithin the .lurisdiction of the other union in which he is not a member, shall remain on that job and shall be forthwith taken into membership in that other union, provided he meets the proper requirements thereof. Both local unions mutually agree, at the earliest opportunity, to make a survey of the sound departments in the various studios insofar as the same concerns or affects the men named on a list mutually agreed upon, which men were employed in specific jobs at particular studios. Upon such survey being made, the unions mutually agree to use every effoi't to insure that the man shall return to his said job. or a comparable job, at his old studio or at another studio, as soon as production reqm'rements warrant, and he shall be entitled to admission into the union having jurisdiction of that job, provided he meets the requirements of membership. 4. Each of the unions agrees to cooperate in establishing a fair wage scale commensurate with services performed ; and where a job or pay-roll classification of work is modified or created by the terms of this agreement, as to either union, such classification shall be evidenced by interlineation or a rider attached hereto, upon the same being d'^termined by agreement between the local union concerned in each instance and the employers. 5. It is further agreed that all actions at law or in equity or other proceedings now pending by one party against the other shall be immediately withdrawn and dismissed with prejudice. 6. It is mutually agreed that the tran.sfer initiation fee for transferees from one local union to the other shall be as follows : For a transfer into the IBEW Local 40, $102; for a transfer into the International Sound Technicians, Local No. 695, $125. Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring either union to accept into membership any particular individual or group of individuals, other than by virtue of the agreements contained herein, because of this division of