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BP/INEOS COUNCIL PROPOSALS
1. Pensions:
· Change the Cash Balance Fund Calculation factor to 5%.
· Postpone the implementation of the bond yield curve calculation until December 31, 2012.
· For the Arco Heritage Pension Plan participants the wage calculations shall be made on total gross compensation.
2. LTD:
· Propose an open enrollment with an amnesty provision for the additional coverage for current employees.
· If the Social Security Administration determines that an employee is totally disabled that employee would be deemed disabled under the terms of the LTD Plan and eligible for benefits.
3. Dental Plan:
80/20 cost share on dental procedure.
4. Retiree Medical:
· Return the Retiree to the Active Employees Experience Pool.
· The Retirees will pay the same premiums as the active employees.
5. RMA
Increase the benefit by 25% annually.
6. Vision Plan:
· Provide a fully paid annual eye examination.
· Up to $500.00 per year per covered person for eyewear.
7. Savings Plan:
Increase the Company match by 3%.
8. Transfers:
In the event of unit closure all employees will be offered employment at other BP/Ineos facilities. Moving expenses shall be applied per corporate policy.
9. Loss of Seniority:
If a Bargaining Unit member accepts a position outside the bargaining unit for a cumulative total of 6 months, the Bargaining Unit member will lose all bargaining unit seniority.
10: Training and Staffing:
· The Company and the Union shall establish and maintain an ongoing Department of Labor Certified Apprenticeship Training Program for all classifications in the Mechanical/Maintenance Departments. Additionally the company and the union shall establish and maintain a training program for all other departments in the facilities to ensure the long term stability and safety of the industry.
· The Company agrees that during the term of this agreement that should overtime in the operating and maintenance departments during any two consecutive calendar quarter exceed 20%, this will trigger hiring notice. At the 25% overtime level the Company must hire in the appropriate department a sufficient number of employees necessary to reduce the overtime to 20% or less.
· TAR shall be exempt form the two quarter calculation. The hours worked during the TAR seasons shall be measured and the calculation will be made on an annual bases. The above mention formula shall be applied.
11: Contracting out language:
When the total hours worked by employees of Outside Entities in or outside the plant reach or exceed the equivalent of one (1) full time employee, defined as forty (40) hours per week over a period of 1 year, the work performed by Outside Entities will be assigned to BP employees and the number of BP employees will be appropriately increased if necessary, unless the company is able to clearly demonstrate that the work cannot be preformed by addition of an employee(s), or that assignment of the work to BP employees would not be economically feasible. In determining whether the assignment of the work to BP employees is or is not economically feasible, the lower wages, if any, of an Outside Entity shall not be a factor.
12: Payroll errors:
If there are errors in an employees payroll check, the employee will be paid 1½ times the regular rate of pay for all hours until the corrections are made.
13: Successorship Language:
Include Pipeline and Terminal Operations in the Successorship Language.
14: Increase the overtime premium from 1 ½ to 2 X, 2X to 3X and 2 ½ X to 3 ½ X.
15: Health & Safety:
· There shall be a minimum of one health and safety representative per facility.
· Increase the benefits payable to the survivors of a worker whose death resulted from an occupational injury to $4 million.
· Implement a benefit for those workers who suffers total and permanent disability while at the same time suffering from second or third degree burns covering an excess of 40% of the workers’ body, as well as those workers injured and suffering permanent and/or total disability with permanent disfigurement a benefits equal to the following:
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$100,000.00 for each year from the date of the employee’s injury until that employee would attain the age of 65. In addition, the employee would continue to receive full benefits coverage for that extended period of time.
If it is determined that the disability or death was caused by negligence or willful neglect on the part of the Company the benefits will be tripled.
16: Vacation:
Vacations shall be increased to the following schedule:
Years of service 1 year 2 weeks
5 years 3 weeks
10 years 4 weeks
15 years 5 weeks
20 years 6 weeks
25 years 7 weeks
30 years 8 weeks |
