Home :: 1995 - 2001 CITYWIDE AGREEMENT :: ARTICLE XIII -WELFARE FUNDS

Section 1

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  1. Welfare fund contributions shall remain uniform for those employees whose respective certified unions have elected to receive the uniform contributions provided by this Article. Upon the execution of an election, welfare fund contributions shall be made uniform for those employees whose respective certified unions have not heretofore elected the uniform contributions. Under such election, welfare fund contributions shall be permanently reserved for citywide bargaining. This shall not, however, preclude the right of any certified union to bargain for welfare fund coverage for groups of employees not now included in welfare fund agreements.
  2. Effective January 1, 1979, District Council 37 or any of its affiliated locals or any other certified union which elects to be covered by this Section, shall be entitled to receive such separate contributions as may be provided in this Agreement for welfare, training and legal services benefits, as a single contribution. This contribution shall be paid by the Employer into a trusted administrative Benefits Fund Trust and shall be held by the trustees of that fund for the exclusive purpose of providing, through other funds, welfare, training and legal service benefits for the employees so covered as well as any other benefits as the Employer and the certified union may agree upon. Such administrative Benefits Fund Trust contribution by the Employer shall be subject to a separate agreement between the Employer and the union. Such agreement shall include among its provisions that the Employer shall continue to have the right to review and approve the distribution of funds to and the level of benefits provided by the individual funds. The individual funds shall also continue to be subject to a separate agreement between the Employer and the union.

    In those instances where the contributions for welfare, training and legal service benefits derive from more than one unit agreement and those unit agreements are not uniform as to each other with respect to the aforesaid contributions, the Employer shall have no obligation to comply with the immediately above paragraph unless and until each particular unit agreement contains a provision agreeing to waive the relevant contribution provided for in the unit agreement in question.

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