Opinion ID: 785099
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Heading: The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)

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7 Article 2(B) of the CBA defines the scope of the work to be performed by IAM-represented employees: 8 The Company agrees that the following described work, wherever performed, is recognized as coming within the jurisdiction of the [IAM], and is covered by this Agreement: ... all work involved in dismantling, overhauling, repairing, fabricating, assembling, welding, and erecting all parts of airplanes, airplane engines, avionics equipment, electrical system, heating system, hydraulic system, and machine tool work in connection therewith.... 9 ..... 10 The duties of aircraft cleaning, lavatory servicing, potable water servicing, receipt and dispatch, ancillary duties associated with receipt and dispatch, and operation of ground power units may be performed by employees covered by this Agreement and/or other employees and vendors as described in Article 4 paragraphs J and N at those locations/shifts where such covered employees are not staffed. Aircraft towing may b performed by employees not covered by this Agreement at those locations/shifts where such covered employees are not staffed. It is not the intent of this paragraph to have non-Mechanical and Related employees perform such work on shifts where covered employees are staffed except as provided for elsewhere in this agreement. It is the Company's intent, however, to utilize all its equipment and facilities in performing work in its own organization. In the event that a situation should develop whereby the equipment and facility limitations are not available or sufficient to perform such work, the Company will confer with the Union in an effort to reach an understanding with respect to how the problem is to be resolved. Receipt and dispatch, including the ancillary duties associated with receipt and dispatch, of Commuter Aircraft may be accomplished by employees not covered by the mechanic and related agreement. 11 JA 170; Appellees br. at 7. 2 The parties do not dispute that the scope language encompasses airframe heavy maintenance (HMV) work, which is the type of work an S-Check requires. 12 There are two addenda to the CBA: (1) the Letter of Clarification (the First Clarification); and (2) Clarification of Article 2(B) (the Second Clarification). 13
14 The First Clarification states that Section (B) of said Article 2 is recognized by both parties as prohibiting the farming out of the types of work specified in said Section (B). JA 194. 15
The Second Clarification states that: 16 Relative to [the Scope clause], it is agreed that, within the limits hereinafter specified, the following listed exceptions to the coverage of Article 2 shall not be deemed in violation thereof: 17 ..... 18 (G) Types of work customarily contracted out, such as parts and material which the Company could not be expected to manufacture, such as engine and airframe parts, castings, cowlings, seats, wheels and other items which are commonly manufactured as standard items for the trade by vendors. Work subcontracted out to a vendor will be of the type that cannot be manufactured or repaired in-house by existing skills/equipment or facilities of the Company. 19 ..... 20 (I) Due to lack of facilities, the Company may subcontract the major overhaul of aircraft engines during the life of this Agreement. 21 JA 195-96. The IAM notes that neither HMV nor other maintenance work on aircraft airframes is mentioned in the list of subcontracting exceptions. The parties agree that HMV work is not the type of work that customarily has been contracted out.