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

Notices

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 E/1

Coaching Stock Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Schedule E/1 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

Section (b): Mechanical work and related activities

 

RATE A

1.        *Coach plumbing.

*‘Coach plumbing’ means work on coaches for all sanitary purposes and/or water services and/or domestic heating, washing or drinking purposes.

2. Panelbeating.
3. Rigging and/or splicing.

 

RATE AA

1. Assembly of motors and/or gear cases to bogies.
2. Functional mechanical testing and/or fault localising to schematic drawings and/or specifications and/or rectifications other than final testing.
3. *Machinist’s work (n.e.s.) viz, shaping, slotting, planing, milling (excluding universal milling), grinding (excluding universal grinding) and the operation of gear cutting and rotary machine tools, including vertical turret machine with built-in mono-slide turret and with a table diameter not exceeding 1 250 mm, but excluding centre lathes (with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), boring mills (vertical and horizontal type with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machines.

*Employees employed on machinist’s work shall be permitted to set up their own work, grind and set their own tools and work to and with precision measuring instruments, including rules, callipers and the like.

4. Straightening of coach body side panels (free-hand work).

 

RATE B

1. Cold sawing where the sawyer marks direct from cutting list (structural metal-work).
2. Drilling machine work (n.e.s.).
3. Supervisory work (n.e.s.), including marking off and/or making adjustments to the assembly of underframes, bogies and components of underframes and/or bogies (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1. Operating multi-head oxyacetylene cutting machines and/or flame planing and/or bevel cutting machines (including setting up).
2. Riveting and/or caulking (n.e.s.).
3. Roller bending other than repetition roller bending (n.e.s.).
4. Setting (n.e.s.) (excluding tool setting) of dies and/or fixtures and/or guides on production machines, including drilling machines, but excluding all other rotary and reciprocating machines.

 

RATE D

1. Arc and/or gas cutting (n.e.s.).
2. Assembly work, where the components and/or subassemblies are positively located, including adjustments, but excluding marking off of components and/or subassemblies to drawings and/or the use of precision measuring instruments.
3. Bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops in press-brake and/or power folding machine.
4. Bending of conduits and/or pipes and/or tubes by pipe-bending machine to data sheets and/or sketches.
5. Drilling and/or counter-sinking, including drill sharpening (n.e.s.).
6. Drilling on radial drilling machine to jigs and/or fixtures and/or marks (n.e.s.).
7. Hand welding by mechanically fed electrodes.
8. *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.

9. Operating automatic arc and/or gas and/or foil welding machine.
10. Operating power saw (n.e.s.), including marking off with rule and/or tape only and including setting of stops (n.e.s.).
11. Operating single head oxyacetylene profiling and/or straightline cutting machine to templets.
12. Preliminary shrinking and/or straightening of interior panels by hand tools.
13. Preliminary shrinking of body ends by hand tools.
14. Preliminary welding for positioning of jobs prior to welding and/or riveting and/or bolting up (runs of not more than 40 mm in length).
15. Press operating (n.e.s.), including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is a positive location, but excluding setting up.
16. Repetition assembly of pre-prepared sets of pipes and/or tubes and/or conduits.
17. Repetition operation of templet copying punch machine.
18. Repetition roller bending and/or forming, involving the use of metal not exceeding 4 mm in thickness.

 

RATE DD

1. Operating mechanical bevelling machine.

 

RATE F

1. Attending automatic submerged arc and/or gas shielded wire and/or flux cored wire arc welding machine where the operator is confined to loading, starting, stopping and unloading the machine and the setting up of which is done by a Rate A or AA employee.
2. Repetition bending of conduits and/or pipes and/or tubes in manually operated machines to templets and/or stops (excluding setting of stops).
3. Repetition cutting and/or cropping of bars and/or billets to stops and/or length gauges and/or repetition cutting and/or cropping of scrap.
4. Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F (when so appointed).

 

RATE G

1. Assisting a Rate D employee in the loading of pre-manufactured components and/or subassemblies into jigs and/or underframes and/or shells and bolting up, excluding fitting and/or adjustment but including deburring.
2. Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies (excluding setting of the dies) and/or to stops.
3. Hand bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops.
4. Huck type fastening.
5. Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or templets.
6. Operating power saw for repetitive cutting off to stops and/or length gauges and/or graduated scales (other than the setting of stops and other than in toolroom).
7. Reaming, using non-adjustable reamers.
8. Repetition operating arc spot and/or butt and/or flash and/or projection and/or resistance and/or seam and/or spot and/or stud welding machine.
9. Repetition cutting of conduits and/or pipes and/or tubes to templets and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or length gauges.
10. Repetition drilling and/or counter-sinking to fixtures and/or gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets, excluding radial drill.
11. Repetition drilling of fixing holes – up to 16 mm holes – with portable drilling machines in connection with body sides and/or roofs and/or gutters and/or ends and/or underframes, using jigs and/or fixtures and/or templets.
12. Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine.
13. Re-threading and/or re-tapping.
14. Screwing machine operating, excluding setting up.
15. Shrinking of coach bodysides in a heating jig under supervision of a Rate A or AA employee.

 

RATE H

1. Affixing slings under supervision of a Rate A to D employee.
2. Holding up and/or backing up for riveting.
3. Lagging of pipes and/or securing of lagging by clips.
4. Repetition deburring and/or fettling by hand and/or by machine.
5. Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or name-plates.
6. Baling of scrap.
7. Boiler stoking and/or attending.
8. Descaling by chipping.
9. General labouring.
10. Rivet heating.