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ARTICLE I
<br />RECOGNITION AND SCOPE OF AGREEMENT
<br />Section 1. Geographic Coverage: The geographic area covered by Local Union No. 142 as
<br />granted by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Joint Council No. 25 Area and hereby recognized
<br />by this agreement is Lake and Porter County in the State of Indiana and Calumet City, Illinois.
<br />Section 2. Recognition: The Employer recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive
<br />bargaining agent with respect to rates of pay, hours of work, and all other conditions of employment for all
<br />employees covered by this Agreement.
<br />Section 3. Bargaining Unit: Employees covered by this Agreement are all employees in the
<br />classifications of work covered by this Agreement, employed by the Employers in the contract territory
<br />and engaged in the work described in Section 4 hereof.
<br />Section 4. Work Covered: Jurisdiction: All work covered by the terms of this Agreement shall
<br />be performed exclusively by those classifications of employees specified in the Agreement. This
<br />Agreement shall apply to employees in the classifications herein set forth in the performance of work
<br />involved in the following operations, but not limited to:
<br />(a) Highway Construction shall include trucking, towing, pulling, and hauling for construction,
<br />modifications, demolition, additions or repairs of roads and streets and construction thereto;
<br />alleys, guard rails, landscaping, fences, parkways, parking areas, parking lots, airports, bridle
<br />paths. recreational paths, athletic fields, golf courses, highway bridges, elevated highways,
<br />grade separations involving highways; sewers, water lines and underground utilities including
<br />fiber optic lines and pipelines incidental to the above defined construction. Airports, as used
<br />herein, shall mean airports and flight strips, grading, drainage, and paving exclusive of
<br />building construction.
<br />(b) Heavy Construction shall include trucking, towing, pulling, and hauling for construction, or
<br />modification, demolition, or addition, or repair of railroad construction projects, railroad
<br />bridges, grade separations involving railroads, piledriving, piers, abutments, retaining walls,
<br />viaducts, pedestrian tunnels, subways, elevated tracks, underground utility lines, fiber optic
<br />lines, pipelines, drainage projects, sanitation projects, sewerage disposal plant projects,
<br />aquaducts, irrigation projects, flood control projects, reclamation projects, reservoirs, sewers,
<br />water lines, water supply projects landfill sites, water power development, hydroelectric
<br />development, transmission lines, locks, dams, dikes, levees, revetments, channels, channel
<br />cutoffs, intakes. dredging projects, jetties, breakwaters, docks, and harbors.
<br />Section 6. All work covered by this Agreement is specifically the operation of vehicles, group
<br />positions and equipment listed in Article 11 of this Agreement and shall be performed exclusively by those
<br />classifications of employees specified in Article 11.
<br />Section 6. Work Outside the Scope of this Agreement:_This Agreement incorporates the
<br />terms of the Local 142]Northwest Indiana Contractors Association Agreement for "Building" work only as
<br />defined in that agreement ("1421NWI"). For those members of the Four County Highway Contractors
<br />Group who have previously signed the 1421NWI Collective Bargaining Agreement, or have otherwise
<br />become bound to the 142/NWI Agreement for purposes of "Building" work only, it is recognized that such
<br />Contractors are bound to the "Building" portion of the local 1421NWI Agreement only, and not through the
<br />instant Four County Highway Contractors Group Agreement, for purposes of 'Building' work.
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