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Memorandum of Local Exemption or Amendment and such Local Agreement
shall be ratified by the Employer and Employee Bargaining Agencies.
Where the Local Union and the Local Employers Association agree
on a procedure to amend the terms of the Local Schedule and/or Trade
Appendix, as it applies to their local area, then that procedure shall be
ratified by the Employer and Employee Bargaining Agencies and Articles
20.03 to 20.07 hereunder shall not be applicable to requests for
amendment(s) to the Local Schedule and/or Trade Appendix applicable to
their local area.
Where a matter referred to under this Article is not resolved
between the parties within seven (7) calendar days, the matter may be
referred to the Provincial Joint Conference Board ("the PJCB") by either
party in accordance with Article 20.02 hereunder.
20.02 Where no agreement is reached between the parties in
accordance with Article 20.01, either party may refer the matter to the
PJCB. The PJCB shall be made up of six (6) representatives, with three (3)
appointed by the Employee Bargaining Agency and three (3) appointed by
the Employer Bargaining Agency. Appointments to the PJCB shall be
made with regard to the matter in dispute and will not include
representatives of the Local Union, Employer Association or Trade
Association party to the dispute.
The PJCB shall meet with the parties and attempt to resolve the
matter(s) in dispute. The PJCB will have no power to make final and
binding determination of the matter(s) in dispute, except where the
parties to the dispute mutually agree to authorize the PJCB to make a
final and binding determination. Where the PJCB is authorized to make a
final and binding determination, the PJCB shall render such a decision
based only on unanimous agreement of all members of the PJCB or in the
absence of a recorded dissent by a member of the PJCB. Where the
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