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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule D

Division D/25

Motor Vehicle Parts and Components Manufacturing Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/25 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

 

RATE C

1.        Repetition drill sharpening by hand (n.e.s.).

 

RATE D

1. Galvanising (supervisory work).
2. Machining (n.e.s.) on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops (excluding the requirement of stops for parting off) where the work cycle is manually operated (including the use of fixed gauges and/or comparators and/or indicators for dimensional purposes only – such instruments to be set by a Rate A employee), and including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling, but excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting and adjusting.
3. *Marking off material (n.e.s.).

*‘Marking off’ means marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.

4. Preliminary welding for positioning of jobs prior to welding or riveting or bolting up (runs of not more than 40 mm in length).
5. Press operating (n.e.s.), including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is positive location, but excluding setting up.
6. Production electric welding in jigs and/or assemblies already partly welded in jigs so as to minimise the effect of distortion and where the ampereage, size or type of rod or rate of deposition is predetermined (n.e.s.).

 

RATE E

1. Repetition balancing of motor components on special purpose machines, excluding calibration of the machines.

 

RATE F

1.        Reaming, using bridge reamers.

2. *Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up, but including the use of fixed gauges and/or comparators and/or indicators for dimensional purposes only – such instruments to be set by a Rate A employee).

*For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.

3. Repetition production machining of bar and/or tube on capstan lathes to stops where the work is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing (excluding setting up).

(This operation is limited to bar not exceeding 52 mm diameter and/or tube up to 80 mm diameter).

4.        Soldering and/or sweating by hand (n.e.s.).

 

RATE G

1. Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.
2. *Attending fully-automatic machine (including checking with fixed gauges and/or comparators and/or indicators for dimensional purposes only – such instruments to be set by a Rate A employee).

*For the purposes of the above, ‘fully-automatic machine’ is a bar-fed machine or a machine fitted with an automatic chucking device (i. e. magazine and/or table and/or mechanical arm fed) and where the manual operations are limited to setting the machine in motion, feeding a new bar into the machine or loading the magazine, as the case may be, and stopping the machine.

3. Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching and/or power pressing where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies (excluding setting of dies) and/or stops.
4. Heat treatment under instruction of a Rate AA to D employee.
5. Repetition countersinking with twist drill and/or rose bit to fixtures and/or stops, and/or reaming, using non adjustable reamers.
6. Repetition drilling to fixtures and/or gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets (excluding radial drill).
7. Repetition hot and/or cold bending and/or forming to dies and/or jigs and/or stops.
8. Repetition hot and/or cold blanking and/or piercing on presses, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies.
9. Repetition machine punching to jigs and/or stops and/or dies and/or marks, including random checking with fixed gauges.
10. *Repetition marking to jigs and/or templets.

*‘Marking to templets’ means the marking of material by means of a templet and scriber or marking material.

11. Repetition operation of and/or attending machine designed or permanently adapted for a single operation where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine.
12. Repetition operation of vehicle rim rolling machines where the power cycle is automatic and where operations are limited to loading, starting, stopping and unloading, and where no gauging is required.
13. Repetition rolling in forging rolls.

 

RATE H

1. Automatic and/or semi-automatic machine nutting.
2. Bending to stops of pipes and/or tubes in manually and/or power-operated bending machines.
3. Cold forming and/or trimming and/or punching by machine.
4. Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or by portable power tool.
5. Metal coating by dipping under supervision of a Rate A to D employee.
6. Operating automatic thread forming machine.
7. Operating bolt and/or nut facing machine.
8. Operating frazing and/or pointing machine.
9. Operating tube and/or rod and/or wire straightening machine.
10. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to length gauges and/or marks and/or stops.
11. Repetition hydraulic testing and/or air testing, excluding preparatory work.
12. Repetition roller bending of material not exceeding 4 mm in thickness.
13. Re-threading and/or re-tapping.
14. Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting.
15. Screwing machine operating excluding setting up.
16. Baling of scrap.
17. Dipping in enamel and/or paint and/or lacquer.
18. Feeding a forming machine.
19. Feeding and/or minding special purpose nicking and/or profiling and/or slotting machine.
20. Holding up for riveting.
21. Straigtening and/or flattening of gussets and/or cleats.
22. Stretching and/or rough straightening of bars by hand and/or by machine.
23. Stripping forgings and/or stampings, using dies.

 

(2) Notwithstanding any operation or wage rate scheduled in this Division or in Schedule G and/or Schedule M of this Agreement no operation or wage rate scheduled in this Division or in Schedule G and/or Schedule M of this Agreement shall apply to the following operations in the manufacture of motor vehicle parts and/or spares and/or accessories and/or components for motor vehicles, viz:

 

Repetition operation of or attending machines adapted for semi-automatic operations (including programme controlled copying lathes), where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, so that manual operations are limited to loading, unloading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power-driven cycle takes over (excluding setting up).

 

Repetition welding and/or brazing and/or bronze welding in jigs or of parts so formed and/or located as to obviate the need for a jig, and/or tack welding of pre-assembled units. Semi-automatic welding by machine (excluding setting up).