CIM Section 38.1

This article establishes labor-management committees at the national, regional/area and local levels. The purpose of these committees is to discuss matters of mutual concern, subject to the understanding that neither party to these discussions shall attempt to modify the terms of the National Agreement.

These labor-management committees are specifically mentioned in several other provisions of the National Agreement. Various subjects are deemed to be proper for discussion at labor-management meetings, including the following: under Article 2 (Section 2.2), non-discrimination and civil rights, at the national, regional/area and local levels; under Article 8 (Section 8.4D), sustained and excessive overtime where it is being worked by non-volunteers, at the regional/area and local levels; under Article 20 (Section 20.5), the parking program, at the national level; under Article 32 (Section 32.3), subcontracting, at the national level; and under Article 37 (Section 37.4), the problems and proposed solutions associated with an energy crisis or any serious widespread energy shortage, at the national level.