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Section 9.1

Section 9.1
The principle of promotion from the ranks is hereby recognized and agreed to.
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Section 9.2

There shall be established in each port a joint committee of registered longshoremen and of employers. It shall be the duty of such committee to establish qualifications for promotions to classifications covered by this Contract Document, including trainees, and to pass on all such promotions. The promotions committee shall determine the trainees under policies laid down by the Joint Port Labor Relations Committee. Such qualifications shall include length of service in the industry, competency and ability to perform skilled operations, or to direct work and skilled operations, ability to handle men and to secure conformance to the Agreement and to maintain and promote harmonious relations on the job and between the parties to this Agreement.

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Section 9.3

Section 9.3
Competent men with adequate experience or training shall be made available for all tools and equipment to be operated by longshoremen.
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Section 9.31

Subject to the ultimate control of the Joint Coast Labor Relations Committee, the Joint Port Labor Relations Committee shall provide for the availability of the necessary men when there are not sufficient such competent longshoremen available.

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Section 9.4

The Employers will train men and administer the necessary skill training programs. The Employers must be satisfied as to the qualifications of the men so trained and make the determination that they are skilled men. Such men shall be jointly certified. In turn, the men so trained, as well as the men already trained and/or qualified have the obligation to work in the skills in which they have been trained or are already qualified.

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Section 9.41

Trained and/or qualified skilled men shall accept work in their skill when checked in for work or while working in other categories. Failure to do so shall result in removal from the qualification list of the skill in which they are failing to work, and such men shall not be eligible for future promotion or future skilled training programs.

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Section 9.42

The Joint Port Labor Relations Committee shall provide as a part of the local Dispatching Rules an orderly procedure whereby skilled men who are on the skilled lists shall work as provided in Section 9.41. This procedure shall not preclude a skilled man working out of category when there is no work available for him in that category, but should the need subsequently arise for his skill(s), he will be replaced and will accept the skilled job.

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Section 9.43

In addition to other steady employees provided for elsewhere in this Agreement, the Employers shall be entitled to employ steady, skilled mechanical or powered equipment operators without limit as to numbers or length of time in steady employment. They shall be entitled to the Contract guarantees as provided in Section 3. The employer shall be entitled to assign and shift such steady men to all equipment for which, in the opinion of the employer, they are qualified. (See related subjects in Addenda.)

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Section 9.431

Section 9.431
Steady skilled men cannot be assigned to operate winches.
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Section 9.432

Steady skilled men cannot be assigned to operate basic forklifts* up to 5-ton capacity except under the following circumstances: (a) To fill out the 8-hour guarantee. (b) To move equipment around incidental to their other duties. *A basic forklift is defined as a self-propelled machine (up to and including 10,000 pound capacity) for hoisting or moving objects by means of steel fingers (forks), chine hooks, barrel clamps, rotator, ram sideshifter or squeeze attachments affixed to a vertical mast.

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Section 9.44

Fully registered men holding union office or union or joint employment may apply and participate in training programs, provided such men will be re-entering the active work force within 60 days after the completion of the training program. Fully registered men holding union office or union or joint employment who will not be re-entering the active work force within the 60-day period, if qualified and selected for participation in a training program, may take the training immediately upon re-entering the active work force.

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Section 9.45

A steady worker, after serving the Union as an elected official, has the right to be reinstated in his/her same steady job with the same seniority and at the same company, and that job shall be filled on a temporary basis.

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Section 9.46

Section 9.46
A training program shall be developed to ensure qualified registrants for relief, replacement, or expansion.
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