Contractors' Association of Greater New York, Inc.

AGREEMENT

SHEET METAL CONTRACTING DIVISION

OF THE

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS

LOCAL UNION NO. 28

SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

OF NEW YORK CITY, INC.

AND

SMACNA OF LONG ISLAND, INC.

AND THOSE EMPLOYERS

WHO SUBSCRIBE THERETO

EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 2021 TERMINATES OCTOBER 31, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS Article Page

I. Jurisdiction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1

II. Fan Maintenance……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4

III. Work Preservation And No Subcontracting…………………………………………………………………………. 5

Work Performed City of New York …………………………………………………………………………………… 6

Work Performed Nassau/Suffolk Counties ……………………………………………………………………….. 10

IV. Union Security ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 12

V. Manpower …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13

VI. Apprentices …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15

VII. Wages…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16

VIII. Hours & Holidays ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 18

IX. Shift Work…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19

X. Shop Steward ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20

XI. Travel…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20

XII. Fringe Benefit Funds………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 22

XIII. Promotion Funds……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 27

XIV. Owners And Owner-Members…………………………………………………………………………………………. 28

XV. Work Rules …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 28

XVI. Miscellaneous ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 32

XVII. Grievance Procedure………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 34

XVIII. Term…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 35

Sketch A ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 36

Sketch B ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 37

Sketch C ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 38

Joint Negotiating Committee ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 42

Side Letter Agreement …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 43

AGREEMENT

SHEET METAL CONTRACTING DIVISION

OF THE

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

THIS AGREEMENT, effective as of the first day of November 2021, by and between SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY, INC., and SMACNA OF LONG ISLAND, INC., hereinafter referred to as the “Employer” and INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS, LOCAL UNION NO. 28 hereinafter referred to as the “Union.”

ARTICLE I JURISDICTION

SECTION 1.

A. This Agreement covers the rate of pay rules and working conditions of all employees of the

Employer including owner/members as defined in the International Association of Sheet Metal,

Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Constitution and Ritual, engaged in the manufacture,

fabrication, assembly, erection, installation, dismantling, reconditioning, adjustment, alteration,

repairing, and servicing of all sheet metal work (including ferrous or nonferrous sheet metal) and

any and all other work included in the jurisdiction of the Sheet Metal Division of the Sheet Metal,

Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers’ Union, including, but not limited to, any and all substitute

materials and/or new technologies or technological advances within the Union’s covered industry

that may replace, alter, eliminate, or antiquate the current and future here-to-for agreed upon

jurisdiction of the Union. (any questions of jurisdiction of substitute material on job sites within

the City of New York to be settled in accordance with the Joint Arbitration Plan between the

Building Trades Employers’ Association and the Unions of the Building Trades of the City of New

York), including all shop and field sketches used in the fabrication and erection (including those

taken from original architectural and engineering drawings or sketches) and all other work included

in the jurisdiction of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation

Workers.

B. Within the limits of Nassau/Suffolk Counties, New York, disputes which arise concerning the

substitution of material to be settled and adjusted according to the present plan established by the

Building and Construction Trades Department (Plan for National Joint Board for the Settlement of

Jurisdictional Disputes in the Building and Construction Industry) or any other plan or method or

procedure that may be adopted as a replacement thereof.

C. Testing and balancing of all air-handling equipment ductwork and water-balancing shall be

performed only by journeyperson sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this

Agreement. Testing and Balancing Employers must bid a job to do the complete testing and

balancing work, which includes using computer communication. The Testing and Balancing

Employer, using journeyperson sheet metal workers, shall balance a system by testing and

adjusting parameters for the proper C.F.M. square foot area, velocity pressure, and K factor.

D. All internal linings for casings, plenums and ducts are and shall remain the work of sheet metal

workers, exclusively, which shall be performed only by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal

workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement. Internal linings for casings, plenums

and ducts must be lined prior to erection.

E. Supply casings shall be the work of and performed only by journeyperson and apprentice sheet

metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement in accordance with Sketch “A” on

page 46.

F. Supply air shafts shall be sheet metal and the work of and be performed only by journeyperson and

apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement.

G. Walls, floors and ceilings (excluding concrete and masonry and excluding penthouses) that are part

of the HVAC system shall be sheet metal and the work of and be performed only by journeyperson

and apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement, unless they

serve a dual purpose.

H. O.B.D.’s and Santrols shall be utilized as per Sketches B and C on pages 47 and 48.

I. The handling and installation of electric motors for fans. VAV boxes, dampers, etc. in work

contracted for the renovation and/or rehabilitation of the HVAC System shall be done by Local

Union No. 28 members under the terms of this Agreement.

J. The fabrication, handling and installing of all types of solar panels shall be done by Local Union

No. 28 members under the terms of this Agreement.

K. The work connected with the following items shall be performed only by journeyperson and

apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement:

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)	Under Floor Air Distribution Systems.Indoor Air Quality.Energy Management.Photovoltaic Cells and Support Frames and Modules.Solar-to-Air Systems.Sub-Slab Depressurization Systems.
(vii) Sock Systems.(viii) FRP Duct.
(ix)	Toilet Partitions regardless of material.

SECTION 2. As used in Section 1.A, the term “dismantling” shall consist of all of the following work:

A. When duct work or other sheet metal work is the only work to be dismantled; and

B. When duct work or other sheet metal work is dismantled mechanically; and

C. When other trades dismantle the work of their respective trades.

SECTION 3. It is hereby understood and agreed that none but journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices shall be employed by the Employer within the bargaining unit on work specified in this Article of the Agreement quoted below, which work may not be specifically covered in the jurisdictional claims of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers as provided for in this Article of the current Standard Form of Union Agreement. Work covered by this Agreement, the manufacturing and erection of all sheet metal in connection with buildings and structures, follows:

Hollow metal sash, frames, partitions, skylights, cornices, crestings, awnings, circular moldings, spandrels, (except stamping of same), sheet iron sheeting or roofing, package chutes, linen chutes, rubbish chutes, hoods, sheet metal fireproofing, ventilators, heating and ventilating pipes, air washers, conveyors, breeching and smoke pipes for hot water heaters, furnaces and boilers, laundry dryers and

all connections to and from same, metal jackets and lagging for pumps and boilers, blow pipe work in mills, sheet metal connections to machines in planing mills, saw mills, and other factories (whether it be used for ventilating, heating or other purposes), sheet metal connections to and from fans, separators, sheet metal cyclones for shavings or other refuse in connection with various factories, sheet metal work in connection with or fastened to storefronts or windows, sheet metal work in connection with concrete construction and sheet metal columns and casings, covering all drain boards, lining of coil boxes, iceboxes, and other sheet metal work in connection with bar furniture and soda fountains. Spot welding, electric arc welding, oxyacetylene cutting, and welding in connection with sheet metal work covered by this Agreement; also sheet metal work in connection with plain and corrugated fire doors; also the erection of floor domes, the setting of registers and register faces, the cutting and bending of metal necessary for the application and erection of metal ceilings and side walls (except stamping), the applying of metal ceiling and side walls and the furring and sheathing of same. The assembling and erection of fans and blowers; also, the erection of metal furniture, factory bins, shelving and lockers, corrugated iron on roofs and sidings, all metal shingles and metal slate and tile, plain or covered with a foreign substance, the manufacture and erection of corrugated wire glass and accessories; also, the glazing of metal skylights. The installation of unit vents where there is sheet metal work in connection with the supply and discharge of air, the setting of radiator enclosures. The cleaning of ductwork in new and existing buildings. Duct cleaning. The use of 3-D scanning, plotting or imaging equipment. Fire Life Safety or Damper inspections and/or ventilation verification. In the manufacture of drawn metal work the work of the journeyperson sheet metal workers shall be the cutting and forming of the metal before the same is applied to the wood, and all clipping and soldering that may be necessary in the finishing of the assembled parts and the covering of wood and composition doors, frames and sash with sheet metal. Also, such other sheet metal work, not herein specified, that has been decided by the Executive Committee of the Building Trades Employers Association to be, or is now, in the possession of the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union, shall be regarded as sheet metal workers’ work.

In the Kitchen Equipment industry, it is understood that the term “sheet metal work” shall mean all work made of sheet metal including the making, mounting, erecting, cleaning and repairing of all steel and gas ranges, grid irons and oven racks, hoods, tables and stands, warming closets, plate warmers and plate shelves, bands, doors and slides for same, drip pans, urns and percolators, kettles, revolving covers, meat dishes and covers, steam and carving tables and drainers for same, bain marie boxes and potato mashers and any other items or types of work that are included in Article I, Section 5 of the current Constitution and Ritual of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.

In the Testing and Balancing segment of the sheet metal industry, it is understood that the term “Testing and Balancing” shall mean all work in the Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing of BOTH AIR AND WATER systems. This work includes the set up and operations of any and all instruments, tools, equipment, and computers and any computer like device used in communicating to the equipment being tested, adjusted and balanced.

All such work as has been described in the foregoing paragraphs shall be performed by journeyperson sheet metal workers and apprentices who shall be furnished only to Employers regularly engaged in the sheet metal industry, except that authorization may be issued from time to time by united agreement of the Joint Adjustment Board, authorizing the employment of journeyperson sheet metal workers by an Employer on work that may be the subject of jurisdictional disputes in order to permit the claim or retention of such work by sheet metal workers.

The Jurisdictional Settlement between the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators (hereafter referred to as Insulators) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, dated June 1, 2019, shall be incorporated for reference for as long as such agreement remains in effect.

SECTION 4. If a contractor purchases or rents a knockdown shanty of any material, the jurisdiction for the erection of such shanty shall be that of Local Union No. 28.

SECTION 5. The Employer agrees that all the work described in this Article shall be performed only by journeyperson or apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement.

SECTION 6.

A. Within the limits of New York City, New York, disputes which arise between the Sheet Metal

Trade and other trades and disputes relative to questions of jurisdiction of trade shall be adjusted

in accordance with the method set forth in the Joint Arbitration Plan of the New York Building

Trades as adopted on July 9, 1903 and amended on April 22, 1905, and all decisions rendered

thereunder determining disputes arising out of the conflicting jurisdictional claims of the various

trades shall be recognized by and be binding upon the parties hereto.

Jurisdictional controversies within the limits of New York City, New York shall be settled in accordance with the provisions and intent of agreements between the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers and other National or International Unions directly involved or by decisions rendered by regularly constituted authorities recognized by the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, including any jurisdictional council voluntarily set up by the AFL-CIO Building Trades Unions and various contractors’ associations (including Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association, Inc.), to which the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers subscribes.

B. Within the limits of Nassau/Suffolk Counties, New York, disputes which arise concerning the

jurisdictional controversies to be settled and adjusted according to the present plan established by

the Building and Construction Trades Department (Plan for National Joint Board for the Settlement

of Jurisdictional Disputes in the Building and Construction Industry) or any other plan or method

or procedure that may be adopted as a replacement thereof.

ARTICLE II FAN MAINTENANCE

SECTION 1. In the temporary operation of fans or blowers in a new building, or in an addition to an existing building for heating and/or ventilation, and/or air conditioning, prior to the completion of the duct work in connection therewith, journeyperson sheet metal workers shall have jurisdiction in the temporary operation and/or maintenance of such fans or blowers, and they shall work in full shifts of not less than seven (7) hours, nor more than eight (8) hours each, and shall be paid eighty percent (80%) of the then prevailing straight time hourly rate of pay for each shift of this work, including nights, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, on full shifts. No journeyperson engaged in fan maintenance shall work in excess of forty (40) hours in any work week. The eighty percent (80%) ratio to journeyperson wage rate is not to be applied to the fringe benefit contributions provided in this Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Employer will continue to pay fringe benefits at the full rate. The Employer shall receive a twenty percent (20%) reimbursement of all fan maintenance wages from the Joint Labor Management Committee and Trust.

A. The jurisdiction of Local Union No. 28 shall apply to the operation and/or maintenance of fans or

blowers only for new systems installed in an existing building or when an old system is in effect

completely replaced by a more modem and complete system.

B. Journeyperson sheet metal workers shall not be employed for the sole purpose of operating and/or

maintaining fans or blowers during any period when such fans or blowers are operating for the sole

purpose of testing or adjusting a heating, ventilating or air-conditioning system.

C. The Employer is to provide a log for workers to sign in and sign out to verify hours worked as

many owners or construction managers require copies of log or shop tickets to be attached with

invoices for payment.

D. The Employer shall provide manpower for three (3) shifts per twenty-four-hour period. Hours

worked per shift will be limited to one (1) eight-hour shift every twenty-four hours and forty (40)

hours per payroll period. The number of different sheet metal workers assigned to fan maintenance

on a particular job site shall be limited.

E. Journeypersons working fan maintenance shall be expected to perform the following duties:

(i) Check that all systems are running, as required.

(ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)

Check that all belts, pulleys, drive and belt guards are properly secured.Check that all access doors are secured.Check filters or replace filters, if required.Check auto control dampers; confirm that they are operating properly.Check and lubricate fans and equipment, if required.

F. On fan powered boxes, there shall be no fan maintenance required on the first floor of their use,

but fan maintenance shall be required when they are used on the second or any additional floor.

SECTION 2. All temporary operations and/or maintenance shall be paid at single time. Less than a full shift of work outside of regular hours shall be paid at one and one-half (1 1/2) time, except for Sundays and those recognized holidays listed in Article VIII, Section 3.

SECTION 3. In the temporary operation and/or maintenance of fans and blowers, the jurisdiction of Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union No. 28 shall continue:

A. Until a system and/or systems are accepted by the owner or his representative after having been

tested and balanced, and until the area is substantially completed.

B. Each area in a building shall be considered as substantially completed for the purpose of stopping

fan maintenance when all core work, toilets, elevator machine rooms, perimeter systems and fan

rooms are installed in the area, and the public corridor and perimeter of the building are plastered

to the ceiling height, or a substitute for plaster is used on either the public corridor or periphery or

perimeter of a building. The plastering requirements shall be waived where the plastering is not

done because the area is not rented.

SECTION 4. The number of journeyperson sheet metal workers required for each shift of fan maintenance shall be based on the assignment of one employee to maintain a reasonable number of operating heating, ventilating, air conditioning or exhaust systems.

ARTICLE III

WORK PRESERVATION AND NO SUBCONTRACTING

SECTION 1. RULES GOVERNING USE OF CONDUIT AND FLEXIBLE HOSE FOR SUPPLY AND/OR RETURN SYSTEMS AND FABRICATED ITEMS.

INTRODUCTION

Historically, sheet metal workers are skilled journeypersons with four and one half (4 1/2) years apprenticeship training and have always been unique in that they have fabricated what they erected. While other crafts in the building trades erected materials fabricated by others, sheet metal workers historically fabricated the cornices they erected, they fabricated the skylights they erected; and since the development

of modern systems for air-conditioning, they have fabricated the ducts and distributional devices which they have erected. Lately the introduction of machine-made products for the conveying and distribution of air in air-conditioning systems has posed a serious threat to the nature and extent of job opportunities of sheet metal workers. Convinced that the introduction of these items, which are intended to reduce labor costs with resultant loss of job opportunities and to give no benefit of automation to sheet metal workers, and to reduce their trade to an erection trade only and to obviate the need for the use of their skills as fabricating craftsperson, sheet metal workers and their Union have insisted that reasonable rules be adopted for the conservation and spreading of work opportunities and terms of employment. Sheet metal workers and their Union insisted that the failure to adopt these reasonable rules would result in the loss of not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the work hours now available to sheet metal workers.

To meet these demands for the preservation and extension of work opportunities and job conditions after an eight-week strike in 1960, a five-week strike in 1969, and a nine-week strike in 1972, and in consideration of the Union dropping many demands similarly designed to conserve work opportunities and to protect working conditions, the Employer has consented to the following Rules Governing Use of Spiral Conduit and Flexible Hose for Supply and/or Return Systems, which the Union deems necessary.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR JOBS/WORK PERFORMED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK

SECTION 1. (A) GENERAL

1. The use of spiral conduit and flexible hose is divided into two (2) categories:

A. Airtight (high-pressure)

B. Conventional

2. The classification of a system, for this purpose, will not be determined by static pressure of velocity

but by the following requirements:

A. A high-pressure system will have airtight duct work of special construction. It will be made

airtight by mechanical means such as welding, gasketing, and/or caulking.

B. In addition, for a system to be considered high pressure, it must have pressure reduction

devices such as one of the following:

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)	Pressure reducing valve with lined duct.Pressure reducing valve with sound trap.Attenuation box with pressure reducing valve.Double duct or mixing box with valves.Peripheral high velocity system.
For the purposes of this section, VAV Boxes, Control Volume Boxes, and Fan Volume Boxes shall not be considered pressure-reducing devices.Any supply system that does not have both airtight construction and a pressure-reduction device will be considered a conventional system.	3.

4. The requirements in Paragraph No. 2 above refer to both supply and return systems, except, in

addition to the aforementioned, a high velocity return system must have metal flues or metal risers

to be considered high pressure and be of airtight construction to qualify.

5. There shall be no limitation in the use of spiral conduit and flexible hose in private one (1) and two

(2) family homes and garden apartments up to three (3) stories.

6. There shall be no limitation in the use of spiral conduit on exhaust and return risers in apartment

houses except for kitchen exhaust risers.

7. It shall be permissible to use spiral in airtight (high pressure) systems from the trunk to the box

(variable air volume, control volume, fan volume) not to exceed ten feet (10’).

8. On fume exhaust systems, dust collector systems, and carbon monoxide systems, each piece may

be no longer than ten feet (10’). All fittings required shall be fabricated in the shop of the Employer.

SECTION 1. (B) CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS.

1. The use of spiral conduit and flexible hose is not permitted in a conventional system, with the

exception of when spiral conduit is used to a single outlet as a sub-branch off the main rectangular

duct on low pressure systems.

2. The use of flexible hose is permitted to connect to any air delivery device which is supported by

the ceiling up to a maximum of ten feet (10’).

SECTION 1. (C) HIGH PRESSURE (AIRTIGHT) SYSTEMS 1. Peripheral Systems (Single or Double Duct)

A. The use of spiral conduit shall not be restricted in any manner except that the maximum

diameter of conduit shall be twenty inches (20”).

B. Flexible hose may be used to connect the riser or crossover mains to the window units. There

shall be no limitations of length or size in this application.

NOTE: Where the connection to the window unit is from a header duct, the header duct shall be adjacent to the periphery of the building.

2. Interior Single Duct Systems

A. Unlimited use of spiral conduit up to a maximum diameter of twenty inches (20”) will be

permitted from fan to connection at final pressure-reducing device.

3. Rules Governing Use of Flexible Hose on All-Air Outlets and Troffers on Sealed and Unsealed Systems (drawing above).

A. Flexible hose may be used only to connect the inlet side of any box, valve or troffer.

B. The maximum length of flexible hose which can be used is ten feet (10’).

C. Where flexible hose is permitted, there shall be no restriction as to its configuration.

SECTION 2. MEMORANDUM CONTAINING NO SUBCONTRACTING CLAUSE

A. For the preservation of the work opportunities of journeyperson sheet metal workers and apprentice

sheet metal workers within the collective bargaining unit, each Employer within the collective

bargaining unit shall not subcontract out any item or items of work described herein below except

that each said Employer shall have the right to subcontract for the manufacture, fabrication or

installation of such work with any other Employer within the collective bargaining unit as set forth

in paragraph B below:

1. Duct work.

2. Radiator enclosures except when manufactured and sold as a unit including heating element.

3. Functional louvers.

4. Attenuation boxes except for mechanical devices contained herein; sound traps.

5. Dampers: All types of dampers, including automatic dampers and multizone dampers,

manual control dampers and fire control dampers, except patented pressure-reducing devices,

OBD’s and Santrols as per Sketches B and C.

6. Skylights, sheet metal sleeves, pressure-reducing boxes, volume control boxes, troffers

(plenums), high pressure fittings and gutters (excluding 112 round gutters).

7. Air-handling units in excess of 50,000 C.F.M.’s. Air-handling units up to a maximum of one

hundred thousand (100,000) C.F.M.’s shall be permitted on Airside projects and for rooftop

units distributing air in a building up to six (6) stories for all areas other than the borough of

Manhattan. Rooftop units in excess of 100,000 C.F.M.’s must receive Union approval

pending consideration of the work opportunities available on these units.

8. Testing and balancing both air and water systems.

9. All other work historically, traditionally and customarily performed by journeyperson sheet

metal workers and apprentice sheet metal workers within the collective bargaining unit in

accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All the work described in this “no subcontracting clause” shall be performed by journeyperson and/or apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement.

B. The Employer shall be required to perform all sheet metal work in its contract with its own employees. The Employer shall have the right to subcontract work within the bargaining unit under the following circumstances:

1. When it is an item the Employer does not normally fabricate.

2. When required, the Employer may purchase items from a manufacturing company whose

employees are within the collective bargaining unit covered by this Agreement.

3. The Employer may sub-contract a portion of a larger job if said subcontract includes drafting,

fabrication and installation.

4. When the Employer takes sheet metal work as part of an HVAC contract as a mechanical

contractor.

Each item described in the “No-Subcontracting Clause” shall have both an international label and a label indicating that it was manufactured by employees within the collective bargaining unit covered by this Agreement.

C. The items listed below shall be governed as follows:

1. The Employer shall make its best effort to purchase these items from a Local Union No. 28

manufacturing contractor and is required to purchase said items from a Local Union No. 28

manufacturing contractor when there are at least two (2) Local Union No. 28 manufacturing

contractors fabricating said items. This would apply only to suppliers who are manufacturing

only and do not have, or are affiliated with, a duct shop.

2. These Items may be utilized on any and all jobs.

3. Items Covered: Flat Oval, Swivel Elbows, Snap Lock for Round Pipe, Roofing Curbs,

HETOS, Conical Take-Offs, Straight Take-Offs, T-Fittings, Reducers, Stamped Elbows, End

Caps and Couplings, and all the associated items such as miscellaneous single blade dampers

and special hangers/connectors directly associated with flat oval.

4. All the above items except flat oval and roofing curbs shall be limited to a fourteen-inch

(14”) diameter or less.

5. All items must have a SMWIA/SMART Label.

SECTION 3. SUBSTITUTE MATERIALS AND SUBSTITUTE SYSTEMS

The heating, ventilating and air conditioning industry is continuously introducing new methods for distributing air into the conditioned spaces. Two of these new systems known as the continuously slotted or linear type of distribution and the pressurized ceiling type of air distribution have seriously affected work opportunities for sheet metal workers and could cause a serious loss of employment opportunities.

A. LINEAR SLOT DUCT AIR DISTRIBUTION

The continuously slotted type of duct distribution generally consists of an acoustically-lined tubular duct directly connected to a slotted or continuous linear type diffuser, and therefore, is within the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 28. The tubular duct work and the lining of this duct shall be fabricated and installed by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers. The ductwork shall be fabricated of uncut, unformed or unbent steel, aluminum or other materials. The duct shall be lined with acoustical insulation from bulk rolls. The fabrication of the duct work and lining of the ducts as well as the installation shall be done by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers.

In order to avoid jurisdictional disputes and “split” responsibility for the integrated performance of the systems, this portion of the system shall be included with the entire job under the HVAC section of the specifications and/or contract.

B. PRESSURIZED CEILING DISTRIBUTION/ PRESSURED PLENUM DISTRIBUTION

This type of system consists of supply and return ducts delivering or returning conditioned air to or from the pressure chambers above a hung ceiling or under a raised floor of a room to which air is delivered. This air is distributed from the air chamber through various types of openings such as, but not limited to, perforated tile, slotted tile, slotted ceiling bars, floor tiles, etc. The installation of the ceiling or floor distributing panels and/or slotted diffusers and zone baffles, which replace the normal distribution and outlets, are substitutes for the ducts which normally and conventionally would carry the air.

Therefore, the distribution system when accompanied by a pressurized air chamber is within the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 28 and should be assigned to and installed by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers in order to offset some of the opportunities for employment lost in the non-fabrication and non-erection of conventional systems because of the use of the aforesaid pressurized plenums. In order to avoid jurisdictional disputes and “split” responsibility for this type

of system for integrated performance, the Employers agree that this type of system should be included with the entire job under the HVAC section of the specifications and/or contract.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR JOBS/WORK PERFORMED IN THE COUNTIES OF NASSAU/SUFFOLK, NEW YORK

SECTION 1. (A) GENERAL

1. The use of spiral conduit and flexible hose is divided into two categories:

A. Conventional

B. Airtight (high velocity) i.e.: two thousand (2,000) F.P.M.

2. The classification of a system, for this purpose, will not be determined by the static pressure or

velocity, but by the following requirements:

A. A high-pressure system will have airtight duct work of special construction. It will be made

airtight by mechanical means such as welding, gasketing and/or caulking.

B. In addition, for a system to be considered high velocity, it must have pressure reduction

devices such as one of the following:

(i) Pressure reducing valve with lined duct. (ii) Pressure reducing valve with sound trap. (iii) Attenuation box with pressure reducing valve. (iv) Double duct or mixing box with valves. (v) Peripheral high velocity system.

(vi) It shall be permissible to use spiral in airtight (high pressure) systems from the trunk

to the box (variable air volume, control volume, fan volume) not to exceed ten feet (10’).

For the purposes of this Section VAV Boxes, Control Volume Boxes, and Fan Volume Boxes shall not be considered pressure-reducing devices.

SECTION 1. (B) CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS

1. The use of spiral pipe is not permitted in a conventional system, except as follows:

A. Spiral duct may be used in place of transite or sonair duct in underground installation.

B. Unlimited use of spiral pipe on branch lines and/or take off in private homes (one (1) and

two (2) family) and garden type apartments.

C. Where the original design specifications and mechanical drawings clearly indicate the use of

conduit or spiral pipe.

D. When spiral conduit is used to a single outlet as a sub-branch off the main rectangular duct

on low pressure systems.

2. The use of flexible hose is permitted on a conventional system, as follows:

A. Up to ten feet (10’) of flexible hose may be used without restrictions.

B. Unlimited use of flexible hose in branch line and/or take off (one (1) and two (2) family

homes) and garden type apartments.

C. Ten feet (10’) of flexible hose unless a greater length is otherwise specified may be used in

the following special exhaust systems:

• Fume exhaust system,

• Dust collector system,

• Carbon monoxide system.

SECTION 1. (C) HIGH PRESSURE (Airtight) SYSTEMS 1. Peripheral Systems (Single or Double Duct)

A. The use of spiral pipe shall not be restricted in any manner.

B. Flexible hose may be used to connect the riser or crossover mains to the window units.

There shall be no limitations of length or size in these applications.

LOW VELOCITY SYSTEMS

Volume damper if required MAX 10’ 0” FLEX

2. Interior Single Duct System

A. The unlimited use of spiral pipe will be permitted from fan to connection at final pressure

reducing device.

B. The use of flexible hose is permitted to connect to any device which is supported by the

ceiling up to a maximum of ten feet (10’).

C. The use of flexible hose will be permitted in accordance with the following:

(i) Where the pressure reducing device is an “octopus” type box, a four-foot (4’) maximum

length of flexible hose may be used on the inlet side of the box, in addition, an eightfoot (8’) maximum length of flexible hose may be used from the box to each outlet. At the option of the Employer, on an “octopus box,” the flexible connection on the inlet side of the box may be eliminated and the use of a maximum length of ten feet (10’) of flexible hose shall be permitted from the box to each outlet.

(ii) Where flexible hose is permitted, there shall be no restrictions as to its configuration.

(iii) Where the pressure reducing device is located at the outlet, the Employer may use a

maximum of ten feet (10’) of flexible hose from the high-pressure duct to each pressure reducing device at outlet.

(iv) Where the pressure device is remote from the outlet, a maximum length of seven feet

(7’) of flexible hose may be used to connect the outlet to the conventional duct.

HIGH VELOCITY SYSTEMS

3. Double Duct Interior Systems

A. The use of spiral pipe from the fan to the pressure reducing or mixing box shall not be

restricted in any manner.

B. There shall be no spiral pipe permitted on the conventional (low pressure) side of the pressure

reducing device or mixing box, except when spiral conduit is used to a single outlet as a subbranch off the main rectangular duct on low pressure systems.

C. The Employer shall have the option of using flexible hose at the mixing box in accordance

with either of the following provisions:

(i) A maximum of ten feet (10’) of flexible hose may be used to each inlet of the mixing

box, or,

(ii) A maximum length of ten feet (10’) of flexible hose may be used as a connection to

each outlet on the low pressure reducing device or mixing box.

ARTICLE IV UNION SECURITY

SECTION 1. The Employer agrees to require membership in the Union as a condition of continued employment of all employees performing any of the work specified in Article I of this Agreement within seven (7) days following the beginning of such employment or the effective date of this Agreement, whichever is the later, provided the Employer has reasonable grounds for believing that membership is available to such employees on the same terms and conditions generally applicable to other members and that membership is not denied or terminated for reasons other than the failure of the employee to tender the periodic dues and initiation fees uniformly required as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership.

SECTION 2. If during the term of this Agreement the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, as amended, shall be amended by Congress in such manner as to reduce the time within which an employee may be required to acquire union membership, such reduced time limit shall become immediately effective instead of and without regard to the time limit specified in Section I of this Article.

SECTION 3. The geographic area and jurisdiction covered by this Agreement is composed of the five boroughs of New York City and Nassau and Suffolk counties, to be referred to as “the seven (7) counties of New York.”

SECTION 4. Employees hired outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the Union to perform work outside of said jurisdiction and within the jurisdiction of another local union of the International, Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this Article by acquiring and retaining membership in the said local union in whose jurisdiction such employee performs said work under the same conditions set forth in Section 1 of this Article.

SECTION 5. The provisions of this Article shall be deemed to be of no force and effect in any state, to the extent to which the making or enforcement of such provisions is contrary to law. In any state where the making or enforcement of such provision is lawful only after compliance with certain conditions precedent, this Article shall be deemed to take effect as to involved employees immediately upon compliance with such conditions.

SECTION 6. The Examining Board of Local Union No. 28 shall be the sole determining board to examine the qualifications for journeyperson membership into Local Union No. 28.

SECTION 7.

A. The Employer agrees to deduct from the wages of its employees, upon written authorization from

the employees, two percent (2%) of the total wage and fringe benefit package. Assessment

deductions shall be remitted weekly to the Financial Secretary of Local Union No. 28 together with

a list of names of employees to whom said monies are to be credited. The Union shall have the

right to withdraw manpower from the Employer, in addition to all other rights and remedies it might

have, for failure to remit said monies weekly. Interest at the rate of prime plus twelve percent (12%)

with a minimum of fifteen percent (15%) per year shall apply to all late payments of

dues/assessments to the General Fund. Interest shall begin after a grace period which shall be the

same length of time as that afforded by the Trustees of the Local Funds.

B. Dues and assessments are considered assets of the General Fund (Union) and title to all monies

paid to and/or due and owing to the Union shall be vested in and remain exclusively in the Union.

The Employer shall have no legal or equitable right, title or interest in or to any sum submitted by

or due from the Employer.

ARTICLE V MANPOWER

SECTION 1. The Union agrees to furnish the Employer, at all times, with duly qualified journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices in sufficient numbers as may be necessary to properly execute work contracted for by the Employer in the manner and under the conditions specified in this Agreement.

SECTION 2. Light Commercial Workers (LCW) may be utilized in the shop as follows:

A. Ratios for LCW to “A” Mechanics.

1st Employee 2nd & 3rd Employees

“A” MechanicsLCW

3 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

6 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

9 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

12 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

15 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

22 “A” Mechanics

1 additional LCW

B. No employer shall be entitled to more than a total of eight (8) Light Commercial Workers in its

shop.

C. The current Light Commercial Workers Wage Package is:

Hire $24.26

After six (6) months After one (1) year After two (2) years

$32.00$36.93$49.34

These rates shall be adjusted when required in accordance with the terms of the Light Commercial Agreement.

SECTION 3. All Industry Promotion Funds shall share and pay one-half (1/2) of the total of administering the Four-Year Experience Board.

SECTION 4. Contributions to the Welfare Fund and S.U.B. Plan on the first hour of overtime in the shop for key personnel only shall be on the basis of hours worked and not hours paid.

SECTION 5. Whenever, in the opinion of the Union, unemployment has risen to the point where some collective action shall be taken, the Joint Labor Management Committee shall meet, within forty-eight (48) hours, to attempt to place unemployed sheet metal workers in jobs.

SECTION 6. A mandatory referral hall shall be established as follows:

A. For every four (4) new hires, one (1) must be from the Referral Hall. An employer meets the

requirements of this Section regardless of the amount of time said referred employee remains with

the Employer.

B. All members must put their name on the Referral Hall list within twenty-four (24) hours of either

voluntary or layoff termination.

SECTION 7. The Employer shall notify the Union of each mechanic hired. A letter of termination will be provided with the employee’s final paycheck. Failure to provide the required letter of termination will subject the Employer to a penalty of four (4) hours wages per day until the Union receives the letter of termination. An Employer wishing to layoff an employee must notify the Union office no later than 12:00 noon of the day of layoff, and the Union will maintain a numbered registry for this purpose

SECTION 8. The Employer shall be at liberty to employ and discharge whomsoever it shall see fit, and the members of the Union shall be at liberty to work for whomsoever they shall see fit.

ARTICLE VI APPRENTICES

SECTION 1. All duly qualified apprentices shall be under the supervision and control of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Trust composed of ten (10) members, five (5) of whom shall be selected by the Employer, and five (5) by the Union. Said Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall formulate and make operative such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and which do not conflict with specific terms of this Agreement, to govern eligibility registration, education, transfer, wages, hours and working conditions of duly qualified apprentices and the operation of an adequate apprentice system to meet the needs and requirements of the trade. Said rules and regulations when formulated and adopted by the parties hereto shall be recognized as a part of this Agreement.

SECTION 2. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Trust designated herein shall serve for the life of this Agreement, except that vacancies in said Joint Apprenticeship Committee caused by resignation or otherwise may be filled by either party hereto, and it is hereby mutually agreed by both parties hereto that they will individually and collectively cooperate to the extent that duly qualified and registered apprentices shall be given every opportunity to secure proper technical and practical education, and experience in the trade under the supervision of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Trust.

SECTION 3.

A. Classes shall be instituted on a schedule established by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee and

Trust. All appointments shall be made pursuant to and in accordance with the Agreement and

Declaration of Trust, the Rules and Regulations adopted thereunder by the Trustees and as

administered by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Trust.

B. Apprentices shall be charged tuition at a rate to be established by the Joint Apprenticeship

Committee and Trust.

C. Apprentice ratio on layoff shall continue in accordance with past practices as determined by the

Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Trust.

SECTION 4. Each registered apprentice after successfully completing a pre-apprenticeship of six (6) months shall serve an apprenticeship of four and one half (4 1/2) years. Such apprentices shall not be put in charge of work on any job and shall work under the supervision of a journeyperson until their apprenticeship has been completed and they have qualified as journeypersons. Notwithstanding the other requirements of this Section, Apprentices in their 8th and 9th terms may work without any restrictions or limitations.

SECTION 5. All apprentices entering the program shall receive a wage package as set forth in the schedule attached hereto.

SECTION 6.

A. If the Union allocates any portion of wage increase for a journeyperson to fringes, then the

apprentice fringes shall be increased by the amount of money allocated to the fringes times the

percentage corresponding with the term.

B. The Union shall allocate the total fringe amount among the various Funds and may allocate some

wages to fringes.

C. The wage rate for apprentices may be adjusted during the term of this Agreement so as to increase

wages for entering apprentices and lower wages for upper-term apprentices with the total cost to

the Employer remaining the same, upon the recommendation of the Joint Apprenticeship

Committee and Trust and the approval of the Joint Adjustment Board.

D. Changes in the apprentice wage package shall become effective at the same time as the

journeyperson’s increase.

E. Each apprentice shall attend school for four (4) one-week sessions spread out over fifty (50) weeks.

Each apprentice shall receive a stipend for attendance at school as set forth in the schedule attached

hereto. This program shall be monitored and evaluated by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee,

who shall have the authority to make any changes it deems appropriate.

F. The number and size of each apprentice class shall be determined by the Joint Apprenticeship

Committee based upon the number of journeypersons employed.

G. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall set up a procedure so that each apprentice shall have a

basic set of tools when he/she reports to the Employer for work.

H. The ratio of Journeyperson to Apprentice shall be 1:1 starting and 3:1 thereafter.

ARTICLE VII WAGES

SECTION 1. The hourly wage rate for journeyperson sheet metal workers covered by this Agreement when employed in a shop or on a job within the jurisdiction of the Union to perform any work specified in this Agreement is set forth in the schedule attached hereto.

A. Provide for a wage package increase of $10.50 as follows:

11/01/2021 11/01/2022 11/01/2023 11/01/2024

$2.25$2.25$3.00$3.00

B. The Union shall make the required allocations to the Pension Funds out of the aforementioned wage

package increase. The Union shall allocate $0.50/hour contribution to the Joint Labor and

Management Committee and Trust.

C. Other than the required allocations for the Pension Funds and Joint Labor and Management

Committee and Trust, the Union will determine the allocation of the remainder of increase among

Wages, Benefit Fund Contributions and Dues check-offs subject to paragraph D below.

D. The Union shall have the right to redistribute contribution amounts between the Funds upon sixty

(60) days prior notice to the Employer. Any proposed redistribution from the Funds to Wages, or

from either Pension Fund to the other Funds or Wages, must receive prior approval by the

Employer.

E. The Foreperson minimum rate shall be two (2) dollars per hour over scale where there are six (6)

or more workers on the job site.

SECTION 2. Wages at the established rate specified herein shall be paid in cash or by check, in the shop or on the job, at or before one-half (1/2) hour prior to quitting time on Friday of each week for all monies earned during the payroll week ending the previous Wednesday.

However, employees when discharged or laid off may be paid in full by cash or check for all days worked. Checks must be bonded or insured, and there shall be a one hundred dollar and no cents ($100.00) payment for any bounced check for any reason. In addition to the foregoing, in the event an Employees check bounces for two (2) separate payroll periods, then the Employer must pay in cash for a period of six (6) months.

SECTION 3.

A. When a holiday falls on a Thursday, the Employer may terminate the work week on Tuesday, and

in such case, wages at the established rates specified herein shall be paid in cash or by check, in the

shop or on the job, at or before quitting time on Friday of that week. In such instance, any work

performed on the Wednesday preceding the Thursday holiday shall be paid on the Friday of the

following week.

B. When a holiday falls on Friday, the Employer may likewise terminate the week on Tuesday, but in

such case, wages at the established rate specified herein shall be paid in cash or check, in the shop

or on the job, at or before quitting time on Thursday of that week. In such instance, any work

performed on the Wednesday and Thursday proceeding the Friday holiday shall be paid on the

Friday of the following week.

C. The wage rate for payroll weeks when wage increases occur shall be determined by whether the

Monday of that payroll week is in the old month or the new month.

SECTION 4. Journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers who report to work at the direction of the Employer and are not placed to work or who are prevented from continuing to work for any reason, except for unforeseen conditions beyond the Employees control (excluding snow, rain, and other conditions), shall be paid in the following manner:

A. Journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers not placed to work shall receive two (2) hours

of wages at the rate (straight time at overtime rate) then and there prevailing. If employed by a

decking, siding or roofing contractor, journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers who

qualify under this subsection shall also receive an additional two (2) hours pay from the S.U.B.

Plan.

B. Journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers who are placed to work but are prevented from

continuing work in any hours from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. shall receive four (4) hours of wages at

the straight time rate then and there prevailing. Further, if the same should occur during such time(s)

when the overtime rate is in effect, then the journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal worker shall

receive wages at the overtime rate for the actual number of hours worked, but in no event shall said

journeyperson or apprentice be paid for less than three and one-half (3 1/2) hours of work at the

overtime rate.

C. Journeypersons and apprentices who are placed to work after lunch who are prevented from

continuing work shall receive eight (8) hours of wages at the straight time wage then and there

prevailing. If the same should occur during such time(s) when the overtime rate is in effect, then

the journeypersons and apprentices shall receive wages for the actual number of hours worked at

the overtime rate then and there prevailing.

SECTION 5. When a journeyperson sheet metal worker or registered apprentice contracts for or engages for a lump sum to do any of the work covered by this Agreement, his/her membership card if a member of the Union shall be forfeited and surrender demanded by the Union subject to the provisions of the Constitution and Ritual of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.

SECTION 6.

A. An Employer having been charged with violating this Article of the Agreement for paying to a

journeyperson sheet metal worker less than the prescribed rate of wage shall, on notice, appear

before a meeting of the Joint Adjustment Board called to consider the complaint and charges. If

upon the submission of conclusive proof of said charges of violation, the Joint Adjustment Board

shall find the Employer guilty an order shall be issued, without undue delay, that the Employer

shall pay in cash to the journeyperson sheet metal worker involved the difference between the

prescribed wage rate and that tendered by the Employer and accepted by the journeyperson sheet

metal worker.

B. A journeyperson sheet metal worker violating this Agreement by accepting less than the rate of

wages prescribed in this Article of this Agreement shall without undue delay pay as liquidated

damages into the Sick Dues Relief Fund of Local Union No. 28 the cash difference between the

Agreement wage prescribed and that accepted by the journeyperson sheet metal worker from the

guilty Employer, and be subject to such discipline as provided in the Constitution and Ritual of the

International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.

SECTION 7. On new all-air systems, the manufacturing of boxes shall be performed by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement at an eighty percent (80%) wage rate.

SECTION 8. Upon layoff, the employee is to be paid in full for hours worked and shall receive that pay no later than one (1) hour before the end of the same day, provided that the employee is on the job site or in the shop. In the event of non-compliance, the Employer shall be subject to a penalty of four (4) hours of pay per day until the employee receives their check. However, this provision shall not apply if the Member is not physically present on the job site at the time of termination or was terminated for cause. Employees when discharged or laid off may be paid in full by check for all days worked. In the event an employee is entitled to more than one week’s pay, the Employer shall pay same with two (2) checks.

SECTION 9. The term “wage scale” shall include the value of all applicable hourly contractual benefits in addition to the hourly wage rate.

ARTICLE VIII HOURS & HOLIDAYS

SECTION 1. The regular work day shall consist of eight (8) hours labor in the shop, Field, and drafting. The starting time shall be between 6:30 A.M. and 8:00 A.M. at each Employer’s discretion. The regular work week shall consist of five (5) consecutive eight (8) hour days of labor in the shop, field, and drafting beginning with Monday and ending with Friday of each week. All full time or part time labor performed during the hours specified herein shall be recognized as regular time and paid for at the regular hourly rates specified in this Agreement. On job sites where more than one (1) sheet metal Employer is working, there shall be a uniform starting time, except as set forth below. The regular workday for journeypersons attending coordination meetings shall begin at the time the meeting starts.

SECTION 2. Lunch time shall be one-half (1/2) hour between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., except if hoisting is to be done between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., then the lunch period may begin at 11:00 a.m.

SECTION 3. The following legal holidays shall be recognized and observed within the territory covered by this Agreement: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day,

Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Still further, the Union shall have the right/option to reschedule any of its designated twelve (12) holidays, prior to commencement of the calendar year, with input from the Employer.

SECTION 4. For all work permitted or required outside of the regular working hours specified in Section 1 of this Article one and one-half (1 1/2) times the regular rate shall be paid. On Saturdays, double the regular rate shall be paid after ten (10) hours. On Sundays and the holidays specified in Section 3 of this Article, double the regular rate shall be paid.

SECTION 5. No overtime work shall be performed during the term of this Agreement except in proven emergency situations. The Shop Steward shall report to the office of the Union all requests of the Employer for overtime work and the names of the journeypersons and apprentices working overtime. Employers must report overtime to the Union on jobs where a Shop Steward is not present.

SECTION 6. Should a journeyperson sheet metal worker or a registered apprentice leave his work before it is completed without the consent of his Employer, it shall be on his own time and at his own expense.

SECTION 7. High pressure fire dampers required pursuant to Local Law 5 may be installed outside of the regular work hours at a straight time rate with the proviso that a minimum of eight (8) hours work be performed during any one (1) regular work day.

SECTION 8. The Employer shall have the right to institute a time-management system in the shop. Such system may include Punch Card, Biometric, and Job Clock Keytab, etc.

SECTION 9. There may be a Saturday make-up day at straight time at the Employer’s discretion with Union approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. This shall only apply to a situation where a work day is lost during the week due to reasons beyond the Employees control; i.e. weather and job shutdown. There can only be one (1) Saturday make-up day per week regardless of how many days are lost during the week.

ARTICLE IX SHIFT WORK

SECTION 1. Shift work is defined as work that can only be performed outside the regular working hours as set forth in Article VIII, Section 1 of this Agreement. The Employer when confronted with this condition shall receive the approval of the Union, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.

SECTION 2. Should it be necessary to start a shift at the close of the regular work day, such shift, comprised only of journeypersons and apprentices who have not worked during regular working hours, shall start work between 3:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. with the customary lunch period and shall be paid at ten percent (10%) above the established hourly rate. This shall be known as the first shift. The second shift shall be between 11:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m., under the same conditions, with the exception of wages, which shall be paid at fifteen percent (15%) above the established hourly rate. On the above shifts, when job conditions require, the hours of work may be varied by mutual agreement of the parties. Shift work shall be for a minimum of five (5) consecutive work days in the shop or field.

SECTION 3. Employees working on shift on Saturdays shall be paid at one and one-half (1 1/2) time. Sundays and holidays shall be paid at double time shift differential; i.e. first shift twenty percent (20%), second shift thirty percent (30%). Shift wage rate shall be the basis for all contributions to the Funds.

SECTION 4. There shall be a lunch period during each shift conforming to the standard work day.

SECTION 5. Shifts shall start at 3:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. except if there is one (1) shift, which may start any time outside the regular working hours, provided the starting time remains the same for each day of the shift period.

SECTION 6. No shop shall be set up on the job site for shift work, and drafting shall not be done on shift work.

ARTICLE X SHOP STEWARD

SECTION 1. The Shop Steward shall be appointed by the Business Manager and/or Business Agent.

SECTION 2. The Shop Steward shall be a working steward and shall perform the duties of a journeyperson sheet metal worker and shall report any violations of this Agreement to the Business Agent or to the office of the Union.

SECTION 3. The Shop Steward shall not be discriminated against in any manner by the Employer because of his/her activities on behalf of the Union or discharged for Union activity. Neither shall the Shop Steward be discharged or laid off for any reason prior to the Employer notifying the Business Agent seventy-two (72) hours prior to said proposed layoff or discharge. If the Business Agent disagrees with the discharge, then the Union may, within forty-eight (48) hours, refer the matter to the Joint Adjustment Board, and if not settled there, then the Union may continue its grievance according to the procedures set forth in Article XVIII of this Agreement.

SECTION 4. Where four (4) or more journeyperson sheet metal workers, excluding superintendent or foreman, are employed on a job site, the Shop Steward may not be transferred without prior notification to the Business Agent.

SECTION 5. When the Employer of a Shop Steward has six (6) or more journeyperson sheet metal workers working overtime on a job site, the Shop Steward shall be one of the journeypersons working overtime.

SECTION 6.

A. On Multi-Employer job sites (all working on parts of the same contract), one (1) Shop Steward

shall be selected by the Union from among Journeypersons on said job. The Shop Steward’s time

with each Employer shall be a function of that Employer’s portion of the work awarded on the job.

All other provisions regarding Shop Stewards in this Agreement shall apply.

B. The aforementioned provisions may be modified by agreement of the Employer and the Business

Agent with the consent of the Union and the Associations.

SECTION 7. Every Employer must have a Steward in its shop to be selected by the Union from among the employees in the shop.

ARTICLE XI TRAVEL

SECTION 1. When employed outside the limits of the seven (7) counties of New York, employees shall provide transportation for themselves which will assure their arrival at the job site at the regular starting time, and they shall remain at the job site until the conclusion of the regular time. The Employer shall reimburse the employee for all tolls, carfare or any other travel expenses incurred in going to or returning from the job site.

SECTION 2. There shall be no travel or board in the seven (7) counties of New York, and there shall be no travel or board within a fifty (50) mile radius of Columbus Circle, Manhattan.

SECTION 3. Fifty (50) miles or over from Columbus Circle, Manhattan, shall be a board zone and shall be paid for at forty-five dollars and no cents ($45.00) per day, seven (7) days per week. One trip is to be paid for at the start of the job and one trip is to be paid for at the completion of the job at a rate of forty cents ($ .40) per mile plus straight time traveling wage. When working outside the seven (7) counties of New York, the Employer shall reimburse its employees for tolls and car expenses incurred.

SECTION 4. On all work specified in Article I of this Agreement fabricated and/or assembled by employees within the jurisdiction of the Union or elsewhere for erection and/or installation within the jurisdiction of any other local Union affiliated with International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, whose established wage scale is higher than the hourly wage rates specified in this Agreement, the higher wage scale of the local Union in whose jurisdiction the work is to be erected and/or installed shall prevail and shall be paid by the Employer.

SECTION 5. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Employer agrees that journeyperson sheet metal workers hired outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the Union to perform or supervise work outside of said jurisdiction and within the jurisdiction of another local Union affiliated with International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers shall receive the wage scale and working conditions of the local Union in whose jurisdiction such work is performed or supervised.

SECTION 6. When the Employer has any work specified in Article I of this Agreement to be performed outside of the area covered by this Agreement and within the area covered by another Agreement with another local union affiliated with the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, and qualified sheet metal workers are available in such area, the Employer may send no more than two (2) sheet metal workers per job into such area to perform any work which the Employer deems necessary, both of whom shall be from the Employer’s home jurisdiction. All additional sheet metal workers shall come from the area in which the work is to be performed. Journeymen sheet metal workers covered by this Agreement who are sent outside of the area covered by this Agreement shall be paid at least the established minimum wage scale specified in Section 1 of this Article but in no case less than the established wage scale of the local Agreement covering the territory in which such work is performed or supervised, plus all necessary transportation, travel time, board and expenses while employed in that area, and the Employer shall be otherwise governed by the established working conditions of the local Agreement. If employees are sent into an area where there is no local Agreement of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association covering the area then the minimum conditions of the home local union shall apply.

SECTION 7. Welfare benefit contributions shall not be duplicated.

When sheet metal workers are employed temporarily outside the jurisdiction of their home local union, the parties signatory to this Agreement agree to arrange through the Health and Welfare Trust Fund to transmit health and welfare contributions made on behalf of the employee to the Health and Welfare Trust Fund in the employee’s home local union.

The parties to this Agreement agree to establish a system for continuing health and welfare coverage for employees working temporarily outside the jurisdiction of the local collective bargaining agreement when health and welfare contributions are transmitted on their behalf by trust funds from other areas.

When sheet metal workers are temporarily employed outside the jurisdiction of their home local union, the parties signatory to this agreement shall arrange to transmit any 401(k) contributions required to be made to a 401(k) plan where the work is performed to a 401(k) plan established for the employee’s home local union, and/or to the National Supplemental Savings Fund.

This obligation is conditioned upon a suitable reciprocity arrangement being agreed to by the trustees of such plans.

SECTION 8. The term “jurisdiction of the Union” as used in Article XI shall mean the five (5) boroughs of New York City, and Nassau/Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York (referred to as the seven (7) counties of New York).

ARTICLE XII

FRINGE BENEFIT FUNDS

A. LOCAL UNION NO. 28 BENEFIT FUNDS

SECTION 1. WELFARE FUND

A. The Employer shall pay to the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union No, 28 Welfare Fund (“Welfare

Fund”) contributions as set forth in the schedule attached hereto. The contributions of the Employer

shall be used to provide group insurance such as life, hospitalization, accident, including prepaid

legal services, health and sick benefits and such other forms of group insurance as the said Welfare

Fund may wish to provide in addition to administrative costs. The said Welfare Fund shall be

administered pursuant to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as amended. The Welfare Fund

shall provide/pay for an annual physical examination for all eligible participants.

B. In addition, the Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto which shall

be used exclusively to provide vacation pay for eligible employees.

C. In addition, the Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto for each

hour paid for all employees covered by this Agreement:

(i)	To provide weekly benefits as determined by the Trustees to unemployed journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers covered by this Agreement.To reimburse employees for time lost from work and/or expenses in obtaining an annual physical examination.
(ii)

(iii) To pay two (2) hours’ wages to those employees who qualify under Article VII, Section 4

of this Agreement.

(iv)	To provide scholarships under a Competitive System and under the regulations established by the Trustees of this Fund.

SECTION 2. EDUCATION FUND

A. The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Sheet Metal

Workers’ (Local Union No. 28) Education Trust Fund (“Education Fund”) for each hour paid for

all employees covered by this Agreement to provide for the establishment of standards and

subsidies for the improvement of the proficiency, skill and ability of apprentice and journeyperson

sheet metal workers, and further to provide for the education of such apprentices and journeyperson

sheet metal workers now or hereafter members of the collective bargaining unit, and to provide

such appropriate educational criteria and mechanical and scholastic attainments, greater skill and

perfection in other and expanded fields to which such skills may be adapted and utilized all to the

benefit of such apprentices and journeyperson sheet metal workers.

B. If the Associations and the Union agree that additional funding is required for the Education Fund

the parties shall contribute additional equal sums up to a total of three cents ($ .03) from the Union

and three cents ($ .03) from the Employer.

SECTION 3. ANNUITY FUND

The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Sheet Metal Workers’ (Local Union No. 28) Annuity Fund (“Annuity Fund”) for each hour paid for all employees covered by this Agreement which shall be for the purpose of paying members of the Union termination benefits in the event of disability severance of employment or on any other basis prescribed by the Trustees and which will be on a vested basis under regulations established by the Trustees of said Fund.

SECTION 4. SCHOLARSHIP FUND

The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Sheet Metal Workers’ (Local Union No. 28) Joint Scholarship Fund (“Scholarship Fund”) for each hour paid for all employees covered by this Agreement. Scholarships are to be awarded under a competitive system, and under the regulations established by the Trustees of said Fund. This Fund shall be merged into the Welfare Fund and cease to exist effective January 1, 2015.

SECTION 5. LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Joint Labor Management Committee and Trust (“JLM”) for each hour paid for all employees covered by this Agreement.

The contributions shall be for the purpose of protection and preservation of the work and jurisdiction covered in this Agreement.

SECTION 6. LOCAL PENSION FUND

Commencing with the first payroll following the date hereof the Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Sheet Metal Workers’ (Local Union No. 28) Pension Fund for each hour paid for all employees covered by this Agreement.

The Agreement and Declaration of Trust establishing the Sheet Metal Workers’ (Local Union No. 28) Pension Fund as amended and the Restatement of the Local Union No. 28 Pension Plan as amended from time to time are incorporated herein by reference and adopted by the Employer.

SECTION 7.

A. Each Employer shall furnish a surety bond to the Trustees of the several Local Union No. 28 fringe

benefit funds and of any Local Union No. 28 jointly administered funds which may hereafter be

established in order to secure the payments of contributions to said benefit funds provided for in

this Agreement. Each Employer is required to furnish a bond in the amount of seven thousand five

hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per employee. In the event an Employer’s manpower increases then

said Employer shall be required to furnish a greater bond or cash deposit in accordance with the

foregoing. The amount of manpower is to be determined by taking the highest number of sheet

metal journeypersons and apprentices employed by the Employer for any three (3) prior

consecutive months during the past twelve (12) months. For new employers the bond amount shall

be determined by the number of journeypersons and apprentices employed at the time the employer

becomes subject to the terms and conditions of the Local 28 Collective Bargaining Agreement.

B. A ventilation shop must furnish a minimum bond of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00); in the

event an Employer becomes delinquent in its payment of contributions to the several Local Union

No. 28 fringe benefit funds its minimum bond shall immediately be increased to sixty thousand

dollars ($60,000.00).

C. An Employer having a shop and/or address outside of the seven (7) counties of New York shall

furnish a surety bond with the Trustees as to all contributions for hours paid on job sites within the

seven (7) counties of New York in such amounts as set forth above or their cash equivalency.

Coverage under said surety bond shall be limited to Local Union No. 28 Trust Funds.

SECTION 8. The Union must withdraw members from the Employer in addition to all rights and remedies of the Union and Trustees if said Employer does not meet the bond and/or cash requirements of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Union shall be required to implement the provisions of this section no later than December 31, 2014.

SECTION 9. The Employer shall be required to make payment at one and one-half (1 1/2) the regular hourly rate to all the respective Local Union No. 28 Funds and Plans on all overtime hours worked Monday through Saturday and double the regular hourly rate for Sunday and holiday hours worked.

SECTION 10. An Employer may make payment of all fringe benefit contributions with a single check. An Employer, whose payment check bounces two times within a six (6) month period, shall be required to pay by certified check for the following six (6) months. A check that bounces for reasons other than contractor error shall not be deemed a bounced check for this purpose.

SECTION 11. All contributions to the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 28 Funds and Plans shall be made weekly and received by the Funds’ office no later than twenty-eight (28) days from the close of the week for which payment is made. Interest shall revert back to seven (7) days after the close of the payroll week if payment is not received by the twenty-eight (28th) day.

SECTION 12. All contributions on apprentices shall be subject to further allocation and adjustment by the Union.

SECTION 13. All contribution hourly rates shall be rounded off to the nearest cent.

SECTION 14. All reasonable costs, fees and disbursements incurred in the collection of delinquencies shall be paid by the delinquent Employer.

SECTION 15. All delinquent contributions shall bear interest of the prime rate plus twelve percent (12%) with a minimum of fifteen percent (15%) per year. There shall be a five (5) day grace period before the interest shall commence to accrue. The Employer shall receive written notice of delinquency. Interest shall run from the end of the grace period. In addition to the foregoing, all delinquent Employers may be charged with liquidated damages of twenty percent (20%) on the unpaid contributions.

SECTION 16. Each Employer shall submit a weekly report electronically (in accordance with the requirements of Federal Court Orders) on Friday to the Funds’ Office for the previous payroll week. For each employee contributed for, Employers are required to indicate whether the employee is a Shop (S), Field (F), or Drafting (D) employee. Failure to file such report shall constitute a violation of the Employer’s obligation under this Agreement and, among other available remedies, shall be subject to Section 15 above.

SECTION 17. The Union shall have the right to withdraw members from the Employer, in addition to all other rights and remedies of the Union and Trustees, after a thirty (30) day delinquency in the payment of weekly contributions, which can be non-consecutive, or the submission of monthly reconciliation reports, and the Union may exercise this right upon seventy-two (72) hours notice by mailgram, telegram, certified mail or facsimile transmission. The Union must withdraw members from the Employer after a six (6) week delinquency. The Union and the Funds shall have the right to bring an action in federal court pursuant to ERISA and/or to take other additional steps with regard to delinquent Employers as recommended by a joint management and labor committee. When manpower is withdrawn from a contractor after the seventytwo (72) hour notice, the contractor will pay wages and benefits to the members withdrawn from the job until the members are returned to work. This payment of wages and benefits must be paid before the members return to work. Withdrawn members shall attempt to seek other employment and will only get reimbursed for actual time lost.

SECTION 18. The books and records of the Employer shall be made available at reasonable times for inspection and audit by, but not limited to, the accountant, outside independent auditors or other representatives of the Trustees of any of Fringe Benefit Funds. The Employer shall be required to disclose upon such audits all payrolls and payroll ledgers, W-2 forms, quarterly federal payroll tax returns (Form 941), quarterly state payroll tax returns (Forms WRS2 and WRS-30), annual federal and state tax returns, cash disbursement journals, purchase journals, New York State employment records, insurance company reports, Employer remittance reports, payroll and supporting checks, ledgers, vouchers, 1099 forms, and any other documentation concerning payment of fringe benefit contributions for hours worked by Employees remitted to multiemployer fringe benefit funds other than Fringe Benefit Funds described herein, and any other items concerning payrolls. In addition, the aforementioned books and records of any affiliate, subsidiary, alter ego, joint venture or other related company of the Employer doing bargaining unit work within the Union jurisdiction, shall also be made available at all reasonable times for inspection and

audits by, but not limited to, the accountants, outside independent auditors or other representatives of the Trustees of the Fringe Benefit Funds. The Employer agrees to pay the cost of the audit if the audit shows a discrepancy of ten percent (10%) or more when compared to the total contributions made during the audit period.

SECTION 19.

A. The Employer agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Collection Policy, By-Laws, and the

Agreement and Declaration of Trust governing the various Trust Funds of Local Union No. 28

Benefit Funds, and the interpretations thereof by the respective Board of Trustees of the Funds as

same may be amended from time to time, and hereby acknowledge that such trust documents are

incorporated herein by reference and are adopted by the Employer.

B. Employer contributions are considered assets of the respective Funds and title to all monies paid

into and/or due and owing said Funds shall be vested in and remain exclusively in the Trustees of

the respective funds. The Employer shall have no legal or equitable right, title or interest in or to

any sum paid by or due from the Employer.

SECTION 20. The Union shall have the option to create an additional Taft-Hartley fund that is permissible under federal law.

B. NATIONAL BENEFIT FUNDS

SECTION 21.

A. The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the Sheet Metal

Workers’ National Pension Fund (“Pension Fund”), for each hour paid or part of an hour for which

an employee is covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Employer and the

Union. Contributions are required for vacation time, sickness absences, and other hours for which

payment is made to the employee.

B. Contributions shall be paid on behalf of an employee starting with the employee’s first day of

employment in a job classification covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

C. The Agreement and Declaration of Trust establishing the Pension Fund is incorporated herein by

reference, and thereby the Employer adopts the provisions of the Trust Agreement.

D. It is agreed that all contributions shall be made at such time and in such manner as the Trustees

require. The Trustees shall have the authority to have their auditor or an independent Certified

Public Accountant audit the payroll and wage records of the Employer for the purpose of

determining the accuracy of contributions made to the Pension Fund. If the audit reveals that

inaccurate contributions or insufficient contributions have been made, the Employer agrees to pay

all accountants’ fees incurred in making the audit not to exceed the extent of its delinquency, and

also all legal fees and costs incurred collecting the delinquency.

E. If an Employer’s workforce did not perform any covered employment within a particular month, a

remittance report shall be filed on the twentieth day (20) of the following month indicating that no

covered employment was performed. Failure to do so shall subject the Employer to liability for all

fees and costs resulting from its failure to file such a report or one hundred dollars ($100.00),

whichever is greater.

SECTION 22. The Employer shall pay the amount set forth in the schedule attached hereto to the National Stabilization Agreement for the Sheet Metal Industry (“SASMI Fund”) for each hour worked for all employees covered by this Agreement. The contributions of the Employer shall be used to provide unemployment benefits in periods of reduced work opportunities which cause periods of unemployment.

SECTION 23. Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Employer shall contribute to the International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Industry (ITI) the hourly contribution rate established by the ITI Trustees. Such amount shall be contributed for each hour worked by each employee of the Employer covered by this Agreement. In the event that such hourly contribution rate is changed during the term of this Agreement, such change shall become effective during the next anniversary date of this Agreement. Payment shall be made on or before the 20th day of the succeeding month and shall be remitted as designated by the Trustees of the ITI, or, for purposes of collection and transmittal electronically or through the Local 28 Funds office.

Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Employer shall contribute to the National Energy Management Institute Committee (NEMIC), the hourly contribution rate established by the NEMIC Trustees. Such amount shall be contributed for each hour worked by each employee of the Employer covered by this Agreement. In the event that such hourly contribution rate is changed during the term of this Agreement, such change shall become effective during the next anniversary date of this Agreement. Payment shall be made on or before the 20th day of the succeeding month and shall be remitted as designated by the Trustees of the NEMIC, or, for purposes of collection and transmittal electronically or through the Local 28 Funds office.

Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Employer shall contribute to the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (Institute) the hourly contribution rate established by the Institute’s Trustees. Such amount shall be contributed for each hour worked by each employee of the Employer covered by this Agreement until the Institute Trustees determine that the Trust is financially self-sufficient. In the event that such hourly contribution rate is changed during the term of this Agreement, such change shall become effective during the next anniversary date of this Agreement. Payment shall be made on or before the 20th day of the succeeding month and shall be remitted as designated by the Trustees of the Institute, or, for purposes of collection and transmittal electronically or through the Local 28 Funds office.

The parties authorize the trustees of all National Funds (as defined below) to cooperatively establish uniform collection procedures to provide for efficient and effective operation of the various National Funds. The parties recognize that the National Funds can receive and process contribution reports and remittances electronically. The parties agree to encourage employers to utilize the electronic reporting and remittance system.

The parties agree to be bound by, and act in accordance with, the respective Plan Documents, Agreements and Declarations of Trusts and/or Trust Documents establishing or governing the International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Industry, the National Energy Management Institute Committee, the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust, and the Industry Fund of the United States, and to the extent that this Agreement requires contributions to the following funds, the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund, National Stabilization Agreement of the Sheet Metal Industry Trust Fund, Sheet Metal Workers’ National Health Fund, Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association Scholarship Fund, Sheet Metal Workers’ National Supplemental Savings Plan (collectively, “National Funds”), as applicable and the separate agreements and declarations of trusts of all other local or national programs and benefit plans to which it has been agreed that contributions will be made. In addition, the parties agree to be bound by any amendments to said trust or plan documents as may be made from time to time and hereby designate as their representatives on the Board of Trustees such trustees as are named together with any successors who may be appointed pursuant to said documents.

SECTION 24.

A. The Employer agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust

governing the various National Benefit Funds, and the interpretations thereof by the respective

Board of Trustees of the Funds, as same may be amended from time to time, and hereby

acknowledge that such trust documents are incorporated herein by reference and are adopted by the

Employer.

B. Employer contributions are considered assets of the respective Funds and title to all monies paid

into and/or due and owing said Funds shall be vested in and remain exclusively in the Trustees of

the respective funds. The Employer shall have no legal or equitable right, title or interest in or to

any sum paid by or due from the Employer.

SECTION 25. The Employer shall submit a remittance report and the required contributions to the NATIONAL BENEFIT FUNDS by the twentieth (20th) of the month following the month when covered employment was performed. Failure to file said report with the required contributions adopted hereinabove shall constitute a delinquency in violation of the Employer’s obligations under this Agreement. The Trustees and/or Directors of the various National Benefit Funds may take whatever steps they deem necessary, including legal action, to collect such delinquent payments and provision of the Agreement notwithstanding. If delinquent, the Employer agrees to pay the interest, liquidated damages, attorney’s fees and costs as provided in the respective Trust Agreement.

SECTION 26. The Employer shall make available to the National Benefits Funds any and all records of the covered employees which any of such Funds may require in connection with its sound and efficient operation.

SECTION 27. The Employer shall be required to make payment at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the regular hourly rate to the respective National Benefit Funds on all overtime hours worked Monday to Saturday and double the regular hourly rate for all hours worked on Sunday and holidays.

SECTION 28. If the Trustees of the National Pension Fund change their rules to allow a participating Local to change from the alternative schedule to the default schedule, then at that time either party may request that there be negotiations to discuss whether to change from the Alternative Plan to the Default Plan.

ARTICLE XIII PROMOTION FUNDS

SECTION 1.

A. The Employer shall contribute to the Sheet Metal Industry Promotion Funds created by the Trustees

of the Sheet Metal Industry Promotion Fund of New York City and the Trustees of the Sheet Metal

Industry Promotion Fund of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, the amount set forth in the schedule

attached hereto, for all employees covered by this Agreement. Reports shall accompany each

remittance on forms as required by the Trustees of the Fund. Contributions by Employers shall be

made weekly, mailed on the same day wages are due, and for the same period. All reasonable costs,

fees and disbursements incurred in collection of delinquencies shall be paid by delinquent

Employers. All delinquent contributions shall bear interest of the prime rate plus twelve percent (12%)

with a minimum of fifteen percent (15%) per year.

There shall be a five (5) day grace period before the interest shall commence to accrue. The Employer shall receive written notice of the delinquency.

B. The contribution rate per hour may be adjusted at the sole discretion of the Employer Associations.

SECTION 2. The Industry Promotion Fund shall be used to promote the welfare of the sheet metal industry within the City of New York and Nassau and Suffolk Counties; and, more specifically, to make known the jurisdiction of the industry and to promote the programs of industry, education, training, administration of

Collective Bargaining Agreements, and research and promotion of sheet metal products; to stabilize and improve Employer-Union relations; to promote, support and improve the training and employment opportunities of employees; and to disseminate to general contractors, architects, engineers and owners information about the kind, quality and merits of the work done by the industry; to make public the terms and conditions of this Agreement in order to avoid grievances and jurisdictional disputes; and to provide expanded opportunities for employment of journeyperson sheet metal workers.

SECTION 3. The Sheet Metal Industry Promotion Fund of New York City shall be administered by Trustees appointed solely by the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Association of New York City, Inc. The Sheet Metal Industry Promotion Fund of Nassau and Suffolk Counties shall be administered by Trustees appointed solely by SMACNA of Long Island, Inc. Representatives of the respective Industry Promotion Funds shall meet with representatives of the Union to establish liaison at least bimonthly. The Industry Promotion Fund of New York City shall be administered pursuant to the Declaration of Trust dated April 7, 1970, and any amendments thereto. The Industry Promotion Fund of Nassau and Suffolk Counties shall be administered pursuant to the Declaration of Trust dated October 1, 1969, and any amendments thereto.

SECTION 4. The Industry Promotion Fund of New York City shall provide up to the sum of fifty thousand dollars and no cents ($50,000.00) per year for the purpose of education and promotion of sheet metal informational material, as well as for securing and disseminating certain industry and project information to all Employers. The Union shall participate in the subject program as to the designation of personnel, allocation of funds and the formulation and administration of same.

SECTION 5. There shall be established a program to provide paramedical training for a fixed number of journeypersons each year. This training shall take place outside of the regular work hours and the cost of the training program shall be paid by the Industry Promotion Fund of New York City.

ARTICLE XIV OWNERS AND OWNER-MEMBERS

SECTION 1. The Employer shall employ at least one (1) Journeyperson Sheet Metal Worker who is not a member of the firm on all work specified in Article I of this Agreement.

SECTION 2. The Employer agrees that not more than one (1) owner, partner, officer, stock holder, or Agent involved either directly or indirectly in the ownership or management of a sheet metal shop or business shall work with the tools of the trade or on any productive equipment or on the work specified in Article I of this Agreement, but such work shall be confined to the Employers shop only.

SECTION 3. Owner-members must operate in accordance with provisions of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Constitution and Ritual, and the Trust Agreements of the various Funds, such as Vacation, Health and Welfare, Pension, and Annuity.

SECTION 4. The Union agrees that the terms and conditions herein will be available only to Sheet Metal Contractors who maintain a properly equipped fabrication shop. This shall not apply to Architectural, Specialty and Environmental Balancing Contractors.

SECTION 5. Each Owner-member shall be required to contribute to all the Funds a minimum of one thousand eight hundred (1,800) hours per year.

ARTICLE XV WORK RULES

SECTION 1. Journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices covered by this Agreement shall provide for themselves all necessary hand tools. The Employer shall provide all power tools.

SECTION 2. Journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices covered by this Agreement shall not be permitted or required as a condition of employment to furnish the use of an automobile or other

conveyance to transport employees, tools, equipment or materials from shop to job, from job to job, or from job to shop; facilities for such transportation shall be provided by the Employer. This provision shall not restrict the use of an automobile or other conveyance to transport its owner and personal tools from home to shop or job at starting time or from job to home at quitting time.

SECTION 3. When employed in a shop or on a job within the limits of the seven (7) counties of New York, employees shall be governed by the regular working hours specified herein and shall provide for themselves necessary transportation within the said limits from home to shop or job at starting time and from shop or job to home at quitting time, and the Employer shall provide or pay for all necessary additional transportation during working hours.

SECTION 4. Employees shall be responsible for the transportation of their hand tools on their own time when being transferred from one job to another after completion of the work day.

SECTION 5. If an Employer receives a job or contract for installation and/ or fabrication of sheet metal work, then such job shall be fabricated and/or installed with plans drawn by journeyperson or apprentice sheet metal workers.

SECTION 6. Drawings for all standardized items shall be used for fabrication by journeyperson sheet metal workers regardless of who has prepared such drawings.

SECTION 7. All drawings may be done in any scale except on drawings sent to the field which must be done in three-eighths inch (3/8”) scale.

SECTION 8. All duct drawings, background drawings, and revisions to drawings made by journeyperson sheet metal workers shall bear the names and I.A. numbers of the journeypersons making said drawings.

SECTION 9. Any drawings, floor layouts, fan and/or pump or terminal units (air and water), fan data or outlet report forms that are required by the Employer for testing and balancing shall be prepared by sheet metal Journeypersons or apprentices in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement. Any existing plans, layouts or sepias furnished by the owner, architect, or engineer, or prepared by journeypersons or apprentices for other purposes, shall be used for testing and balancing. Any typing or duplicating may be done by office personnel. Any instrument or device and method of testing and balancing may be used if approved by the engineer or approving authority. The work shall be deemed complete when accepted by the engineer or approving authority.

SECTION 10. Within one hundred fifty (150) miles of New York City, any job that is sketched by Local Union No. 28 must be fabricated by Local Union No. 28.

SECTION 11. When a job is located within the seven (7) counties of New York and said job is a joint venture between an Employer located within the seven (7) counties of New York and an Employer located outside the seven (7) counties of New York, the sketching and fabricating of said job must be performed within the seven (7) counties.

SECTION 12. The amount of work that a member of the Union may perform shall not be restricted by the Union, nor by the representatives, officers or members of the Union; nor shall the use of machinery, tools, appliances or methods be restricted or interfered with. There shall be unrestricted use of ratchet wrenches if supplied by the Employer. It is understood and agreed that where such tools and equipment are used to perform work previously performed by journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices, such tools and equipment shall be operated by journeyperson sheet metal workers and registered apprentices.

SECTION 13. Duct lifts shall be limited in use as follows:

A. They shall be operated solely by sheet metal journeypersons and apprentices in the bargaining unit

covered by this Agreement;

B. Duct lifts shall never be used as a scaffold for supporting employees;

C. All duct lifts/man-lifts shall be operated in accordance with the Manufacturer’s Guidelines.

D. Duct lifts shall be limited in use to the erecting of 10-12-gauge metal smoke breechings, doublewalled casings, double-walled ducts, all types of units and any other duct work not to exceed the

length of twenty (20) linear feet being raised during any one lift;

E. Use of duct lifts will not be abused.

SECTION 14. Powder-actuated guns may be used only in accordance with the rules and regulations of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and only by persons who have first received appropriate training in the use and safety thereof

SECTION 15. Any type of hoisting device may be used at the discretion of the Employer. The load per lift shall be limited to the load that can presently be lifted on a platform used for lifting dry wall sheets. Nets, containers, etc. must be loaded and unloaded by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers in the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement. Regular past practices of packaging and use of pallets and skids may be continued.

SECTION 16. The Employer shall be required to accept an entire job, namely, the sketching, fabrication and installation, except under the following circumstances:

A. When the item it is being asked to fabricate is not normally fabricated by its customer;

B. When the Employer is a manufacturing company in signed agreement with Local Union No. 28.

SECTION 17. In accordance with existing or subsequently enacted federal, state or local law, and to ensure the demands of work preservation and job opportunities available to sheet metal workers, the Union shall have the right to withdraw manpower, upon fifteen (15) days’ written notice, from an Employer on a job if the following items contained in Division 15 of the specifications are not provided in accordance with this Collective Bargaining Agreement: dampers, VAV’s, air outlets, troffers, soundtraps, functional louvers, installation of duct reinforcements and seismic bracing.

SECTION 18.

A. Employers must report to the Union all jobs, no later than three (3) days from when the job is

awarded, on the forms provided by the Union, which shall contain the following information:

• Description of work

• Job name and location

• General contractor

• Mechanical contractor

• Sheet metal contractor

B. Mandatory job reports are to be submitted to the Union and the respective Promotion Fund where

the work is being performed by every Local Union 28 Draftsmen. The report among other items

shall include therein testing and balancing contractors assigned to perform the work.

C. Employers who do testing and balancing must submit Testing and Balancing Job Report Forms.

The forms will be supplied to the Employer by the Union. The completed form is to be submitted

to the office of the Joint Labor Management Committee and Trust.

SECTION 19. The Employer shall carry insurance or be self-insured to safeguard all employees against loss of tools and clothing in the shop or on the job site due to robbery or fire. The limit of the coverage for each loss shall be six hundred dollars ($600.00). Payment shall be made within two (2) weeks of submission of authenticated list.

SECTION 20. The Employer shall provide a suitable heated shanty on all jobs employing four (4) or more journeypersons and apprentices for twenty (20) days or more.

SECTION 21. The Employer is to have the company name and address permanently affixed on all trucks. SECTION 22. COMPUTER

A. All computer terminals and/or work stations with machinery for the drawing, fabrication, erection,

and testing, adjusting and balancing of any work formerly drawn, fabricated, erected and tested,

adjusted and balanced by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal journeypersons and apprentices shall be

operated by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal building trades journeypersons and apprentices.

B. All drawings (whether produced by hand or on computer) required for fabrication and erection of

all work within the jurisdiction of the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement, as stated in

Article I, Section 1, shall be done by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal building trades journeypersons

and apprentices.

C. All work necessary for the completion of said drawings, including but not limited to architectural,

structural, and mechanical backgrounds for duct work drawings, must be drawn (either by hand or

on computer) by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal building trades journeypersons and apprentices.

D. No disk, tape or other transfer medium including but not limited to modems ad scanners may be

used to transfer all or any part of a drawing to the computer or computers of any Employer unless

said disk, tape or other transfer medium has been produced by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal

building trades journeypersons and apprentices. Employers may accept disks from others for the

purpose of trade coordination only.

E. Architectural and structural backgrounds may be transferred on computer disks and utilized as

backgrounds for duct work drawings.

F. There shall be no restrictions on the use of digitizers by sheet metal journeyperson and apprentice

draftspersons.

G. Plotters and/or printers may be used to produce drawings and labels upon completion of work by

sheet metal building trades journeypersons and apprentices. Plotters and/or printers shall be

permitted to run without the presence of Union personnel.

H. During the duration of a job, a computer disk of duct work may be utilized only by Employers who

are part of the bargaining unit.

I. All trade coordination (whether done by hand on a composite drawing or on computer) must be

done by Local Union No. 28 sheet metal building trades journeypersons and apprentices.

J. The first person trained on computerized equipment shall be a journeyperson. Apprentices may be

trained on said equipment under Joint Apprenticeship Committee guidelines. When an Employer

conducts computer training for its draftspersons not receiving pay, then the Employer shall be

obligated to offer said training to all of its drafting employees.

K. All computer burned or fabrication labels or bar-scan labels shall bear an identifying mark

indicating the name of the shop fabricating the duct work. This shall apply only where a label is

utilized, at the Employer’s discretion, and is computer generated.

L. Architectural and structural backgrounds may be transferred on a computer disk and utilized for

background drawings if the drawings are completed on CAD. Any required changes or

modifications to the backgrounds will be made by Local Union No. 28 members except those

changes provided on disk by the architect.

M. Any classification of a Local Union No. 28 worker may clean up the drawings received from architects and engineers. Said employee would remove extraneous information, change the font, and remove any unnecessary text. They are not permitted to do adjustments of the steel, wall locations, or to the reflecting ceiling plan.

SECTION 23. All testing, adjusting and balancing report forms and drawings made or marked up by a journeyperson sheet metal worker shall bear the name and I.A. number of the journeyperson sheet metal worker making said reports and marking up said drawings.

SECTION 24. Parties shall jointly establish a system for the submission of Letters of Assignment. SECTION 25. Safe and healthy working conditions shall be observed at all times.

SECTION 26. At no time shall a swing or suspended scaffold crew be fewer than two (2) competent sheet metal workers.

SECTION 27. It is mutually agreed that all Municipal, State, and federal Safety Standards will be observed at all times.

SECTION 28. Each Employer shall affix to the ductwork fabricated in its shop the name of the company, job identification, and, if fabricated for a “B” job, a “B” designation.

SECTION 29. Laser devices are not to be considered hand tools.

SECTION 30. Provisions of the New York City Paid Sick Leave Law are expressly waived by the parties to this Agreement.

SECTION 31. The Employer shall pay for certifications or background checks of Local Union No. 28 Journeypersons and Apprentices where required for members to work at a specific job site including, but not limited to, the Metropolitan Transit Authority Track Safety certification and the Port Authority background check.

SECTION 32. Only a Building Trades Journeyperson may be a Foreman where a Journeyperson is required to be on the job.

SECTION 33. The parties agree to waive the requirements of Labor Law Section 196-b, recognizing that employer contributions made to the Vacation and SASMI funds are comparable benefits for the employees.

SECTION 34. The parties agree to waive Section 1 and Section 2 of the New York Health and Essential

Rights Act (NY HERO Act).

ARTICLE XVI MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 1. If any Article or any Section of any Article, or any provision of any Section, or any combination of any provisions of this Agreement be rendered or declared illegal by reason of any existing or subsequently enacted federal, state or local law, or by a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidation of such part or portion of this Agreement, and all remaining provisions shall continue to be operating and binding on the parties hereto.

SECTION 2. A joint committee consisting of representatives of the Employers and the Union has been established for the following purposes:

A. To explore market retention, market recovery and market growth in the areas of residential work,

light commercial and industrial work, public and utility work, energy management, energy retrofit,

indoor air quality, system commissioning, and HVAC service work;

B. To explore and promote the direct assignment/award of sheet metal work from the owner or general

contractor to the sheet metal contractor;

C. To discuss the problems of the roofing sheet metal industry with the authority to negotiate a separate

addendum for these Employers;

D. To establish a jointly-run safety committee.

E. To develop a market recovery program under the Target Agreement, and to discuss provisions such

as Resolution 78 which will allow the Employers to regain work lost to non-union contractors.

SECTION 3. When an Employer has a dispute with its customer and either a lien is filed or litigation commenced by said Employer, then the Union may withdraw journeypersons and apprentices from any other Employer seeking to work on that contract until such time as the Union determines that all wages and fringes have been paid by all parties involved.

SECTION 4. Any Employer not a member of the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Association of New York City, Inc., or SMACNA of Long Island, Inc. may receive the benefits and assume the obligations of this Agreement by and with the Union by signing an exact copy of this Agreement.

SECTION 5. The Union agrees that it will not enter into an Agreement with any Employer containing more favorable conditions than those agreed to in the current Agreement. Should it be shown that more favorable conditions prevail, then the more favorable conditions or wages shall apply to all signatories to this Agreement. The foregoing provision shall not be applicable to Production, Manufacturing, Target, Airside, Equality, Resolution 78, Specialty and Roofing agreements wherein the Union is a signatory and/or party in interest. It is understood that any of said agreements shall be offered to the Employer for the work covered and described in said agreements. It is also understood that said Production and Manufacturing work shall be performed in separate quarters from any building trades construction work. A signatory Employer must have a fully operational shop facility located in New York City or Long Island in order to be eligible to enter into a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Union. A newly signed employer need not have a shop when signed subject to the following conditions: (1) they are not permitted to do any renovation work in Manhattan; (2) they may not employ more than nine (9) Total building Trade members and/or Light Commercial workers; (3) they must have a functional shop within two (2) years from the time they were signed; (4) these provisions may be modified by the Joint Labor Management Committee; (5) all drafting must be done by a Journeyperson; and (6) all purchases must be from a Local 28 Building Trades shop.

SECTION 6. The Employer, upon written authorization from the employee, shall deduct from wages five cents ($ .05) per hour and remit same to the Local Union No. 28 Political Action League. The Union has a right to reallocate as it sees fit. Contributions to the Political Action League are not deductible for Federal Income Tax purposes.

SECTION 7. The Employer shall provide Statutory or State Disability coverage for its employees. If the rate of such coverage at any time during the term of the Agreement exceeds twice the current rate, then the employees will pay the cost beyond twice the current rate.

SECTION 8. The Employer and the Union mutually agree they will treat all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or citizenship status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

ARTICLE XVII GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

SECTION 1. Any and all complaints, disputes, claims, differences and/or grievances (except that delinquent contributions may also be resolved outside this procedure by bringing an action in federal court or through a motion for administrative expenses/proof of claim in bankruptcy court) arising out of or relating to the interpretation or application of the provisions of this Agreement shall be settled, adjusted and disposed of in the following manner:

A. Between the Employer directly involved and the duly authorized representative of the Union.

B. Between the Business Manager and the Association’s official or representative.

C. Grievances not settled in accordance with (A) or (B) above shall be referred to a Joint Adjustment

Board consisting of five (5) representatives from the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors

Association of New York City, Inc., and SMACNA of Long Island, Inc., and five (5)

representatives from the Union plus the respective attorney for each, whose decision shall be final

and binding. Prior written notice of fourteen (14) days shall be required before a matter is referred

to the Joint Adjustment Board, any deadlocked Joint Adjustment Board that is not taken to

arbitration within seven (7) working days shall be considered withdrawn.

D. Grievances not resolved under procedure described in (C) above because of deadlock or otherwise

shall be referred to arbitration as set forth in Section 2 of this Article XVIII.

SECTION 2. Arbitration shall be had in accordance with the Labor Tribunal Rules of the American Arbitration Association. All cases shall be heard in chronological order within seven (7) calendar days from the date either party requests arbitration. Any group or series of cases related in substance or time may be submitted for arbitration to one Arbitrator at the same time.

SECTION 3. Parties shall share the cost of arbitration equally.

SECTION 4. Arbitrator’s award shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the parties and employees for all purposes.

SECTION 5. The Arbitrator shall have full power and authority to determine all complaints, disputes, claims, differences and grievances in accordance with the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed by the parties and to award such remedy or relief as is deemed reasonable and proper.

SECTION 6. There shall be an expedited hearing before the Arbitrator within three (3) working days of disagreement in connection with the proposed layoff, discharge or termination of a Shop Steward.

SECTION 7.

A. Upon the failure on the part of either party to comply with the Arbitrator’s award the other party,

after three (3) working days, shall be released from the “no strike-no lockout” provision, as the case

may be.

B. Upon the failure of a party to comply with the award, the same Arbitrator who heard the original

matter must meet within three (3) working days of a request to determine whether or not there has

been compliance. If the Arbitrator finds non-compliance, he must make an award providing for

liquidated damages in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per day commencing with the

third working day following the issuance of the second award.

SECTION 8. It is agreed that funds collected by the Joint Adjustment Board as fines, awards, or other compensation, may be used by the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union No. 28 Education Fund to fund educational projects upon recommendation to and approval of the Joint Adjustment Board.

SECTION 9. It is understood and agreed that in the event an Employer is unsuccessful in securing such work of a nature to be determined to be lower than No. 10 U.S. Gauge, such a matter should not be construed to alter, modify, amend, change or apply to any and all work historically traditionally and customarily performed by journeyperson and apprentice sheet metal workers in the collective bargaining unit in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

SECTION 10. There shall be no strike or lockout at any time during the term of this Agreement except as provided for in Section 7 A.

ARTICLE XVIII TERM

This Agreement and attachments hereto shall become effective as of the first day of November 2021 and remain in full force and effect until the thirty-first day of October 2025 and shall continue in force from year to year thereafter unless written notice of reopening is given no fewer than ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date. In the event such notice of reopening is served, this Agreement shall continue in force and effect until conferences relating thereto have been terminated by either party.

SKETCH OF BUILT UP SYSTEMS

SKETCH GOVERNING OBD’S AND SANTROLS BELOW HUNG CEILING

SKETCH GOVERNING OBD’S AND SANTROLS ABOVE HUNG CEILING

APPRENTICE HOURLY WAGE AND BENEFIT EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 28, 2021 TO JULY 27, 2022
Journey person100%	PreApprentice6 Mo. Term25%	First Year1st & 2nd Term35%	Second Year3rd & 4th Term45%	Third Year5th & 6th Term55%	Fourth Year7th & 8th Term70%	Fifth Year (6 mos.)9th Term80%
Wages	$52.10	$18.32	$18.25	$23.47	$28.68	$36.50	$41.70
Vacation Fund	$6.75	$0.00	$2.38	$3.05	$3.72	$4.74	$5.40
National Pension Fund	$16.95	$0.85	$5.93	$7.63	$9.32	$11.87	$13.56
Annuity Fund	$8.69	$0.00	$2.89	$3.79	$4.67	$6.00	$6.90
Health & Welfare Fund	$12.88	$4.62	$4.68	$5.79	$7.09	$9.03	$10.30
SUB Fund	$0.99	$0.00	$0.29	$0.39	$0.50	$0.65	$0.77
Local Pension Fund	$4.47	$0.00	$1.58	$4.02	$4.11	$4.23	$4.33
SASMI Fund	$3.08	$0.00	$1.08	$1.44	$1.74	$2.19	$2.49
Local Education Fund	$1.18	$1.18	$1.18	$1.18	$1.18	$1.18	$1.18
ITI/NEMI Fund	$0.17	$0.17	$0.17	$0.17	$0.17	$0.17	$0.17
JLM/Equality Fund	$1.81	$0.00	$0.63	$0.81	$1.00	$1.27	$1.45
Industry Promotion Fund	$0.55	$0.00	$0.55	$0.55	$0.55	$0.55	$0.55
Scholarship Fund	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
TOTAL HOURLY RATE	$109.64	$25.16	$39.63	$52.31	$62.75	$78.40	$88.82
Total Taxable Wages	$58.85	$18.32	$20.63	$26.52	$32.40	$41.24	$47.10
Total Fringe	$50.79	$6.84	$19.00	$25.79	$30.35	$37.16	$41.72
Total Hourly Rate	$109.64	$25.16	$39.63	$52.31	$62.75	$78.40	$88.82
Working Assessments Building PAL Fund	$2.97 $0.02 $0.05	$0.18 $0.00 $0.00	$1.19 $0.02 $0.05	$1.51 $0.02 $0.05	$1.78 $0.02 $0.05	$2.17 $0.02 $0.05	$2.44$0.02$0.05
Total UNION Wage deductions	$3.04	$0.18	$1.26	$1.58	$1.85	$2.24	$2.51

JOURNEYPERSON HOURLY WAGE PACKAGE

10-28-2021 TO 7-27-2022

WAGES $52.10*

FRINGE BENEFITS

Vacation Fund	$ 6.75
Welfare Fund	12.88
Annuity Fund	8.69
SUB Plan JLM/Equality Fund Scholarship Fund	0.991.810.02
Local Pension Fund	4.47
Education Fund	1.18
National Pension Fund	16.95
SASMI Fund ITI/NEMI Fund Industry Promotion Funds	3.080.170.55

$57.54

$109.64

Note: the following wage package increases shall apply as follows:

November 1, 2022 November 1, 2023 November 1, 2024

$2.25$3.00$3.00

*The Foreperson minimum rate shall be two dollars ($2.00) per hour over scale where there are six (6) or more workers on the job site.

WEEKLY APPRENTICE SCHOOL STIPEND

TERMS

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

$722$722$928$928$1,134$1,134$1,443$1,443$1,649

PRE-APPRENTICE

1st Week 2nd Week 3rd Week 4th Week

$120.00$120.00$120.00$120.00

SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY, INC.

INTERNATIONAL

ASSOCIATION OF SHEET

METAL, AIR, RAIL AND

TRANSPORTATION WORKERS

LOCAL UNION NO. 28

Negotiating Committee Negotiating Committee

Victor Gany, Chairman Eric Meslin, Chairman

Frank Doka James Callahan

Joseph Grgas, Jr. Raymond Minieri

Brad Mattes Brian Nigro

Frank Narciso Frank Nitto

Ronald J. Palmerick Fernando Robles

Mike Cunney Robert Rotolo

Christopher Weickert Salvatore Starace

William Rothberg, Executive Director Ralph Tortora

John Contrubis, Associate Director Timothy Wilton

SMACNA OF

LONG ISLAND, INC. Negotiating Committee

Jeffrey Porrello, Chairman

Steven Benkovsky Randy Buchter John Hauser Al LaBella Michael DiGiuseppi

Melissa Barbour, Chapter Executive