Every effort will be made to assure that employees reduced from designated classifications are utilized to fill temporary loans to their last classification within the shift.

The Company will provide the Union with sufficient time during the Company’s new employee orientation program for Union affairs. This will be accomplished by use of video tape presentation, pre-taped by a designated representative of the Union and approved by the Company.

The current orientation for new employees includes many areas of safety awareness and is conducted jointly by the Company and Union. In order to assure greater emphasis to our new employees in the use of JSA’s job safety analysis and the safe and proper method of loading and unloading a press/welding press, sufficient time will be dedicated to these items and the GRASP Basic Ergonomics Video will be shown and reviewed by the instructor with the new employees.

A Unit Committeeperson may be present during the orientation process as indicated above.

During 1999 Local Negotiations, it was agreed that the following process would be used to assign work to employees, in Non-Skilled classifications, whose jobs DO NOT start at the beginning of their shifts:

• Employees reporting to the same Supervisor, in the same area, in the same classification, will be assigned to work in the area by seniority (irrespective of what DROT the employee is assigned to).
  
• Line Feeders shall displace employees loaned to Line Feeder assignments within their department before being assigned to available work.  For this purpose, Assembly shall be considered one department and Press shall be considered one department.  Line Feeders whose jobs go down during the shift shall displace employees loaned to Line Feeder assignments within their basic sub-department (9072 & 9076 for Press; 9092 & 9096 for Assembly) before being assigned to available work outside the sub-department.
  
• Employees who cannot be placed in accordance with this process will be loaned in accordance with Article VIII, Section 22 of the Master Agreement.

It is understood that the Company and the Union may mutually agree to deviate from this process to address unique situations.