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Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Extension of the Consolidated Main Collective Agreement to Non-parties (for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2024)

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule G

Section (c): Saw doctoring and/or sharpening and/or reconditioning and/or repairing all types of cutting tools (excluding machine tools)

 

RATE AA

1. Machine tool setting up and/or toolsetting.
2. Smithing and/or blocking and/or tensioning of saws (saw doctoring).

 

RATE C

1. Replacing parts from stock and/or adjusting of lawnmowers and/or grass cutters, excluding the power units.

 

RATE D

1. Drilling and/or countersinking and/or reaming and/or enlarging circular saw centres (n.e.s.).
2. Operating lawnmower cutting cylinder and/or bottom blade sharpening machine.

 

RATE G

1. Assembling components requiring no fitting or adjustment under supervision of a Rate A to D employee.
2. Attending special purpose machine, including the use of fixed gauges where the manual operations are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and unloading the machine.
3. Countersinking to stops.
4. Cutting off to stops and/or jigs by hand shears.
5. Dismantling lawnmowers and/or grass cutters, excluding dismantling of the power units.
6. Drilling to jigs and/or centre pop marks.
7. Grinding and/or buffing and/or polishing.
8. Manual and/or automatic setting and/or gulleting and/or sharpening of saws.
9. Manual reaming of circular saw centre holes to go and no-go gauges and/or pre-set stops, using tapered fixed reamers.
10. Operating butt and/or spot welding machine.
11. Removing welding burrs and/or annealing of bandsaws.
12. Repetition fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing, where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies, other than the setting of dies and/or tools.

 

RATE H

1. Application of anti-corrosive and/or protective coatings by brush.
2. Etching saw blades.
3. Pin fixing in saw blades.
4. Loading and unloading in oil stiffening operations.