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

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Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule G

Section (h): Electronics and/or Telecommunication Division

 

(Erection, installation, maintenance and repair in the Provinces of the Transvaal and Natal.)

 

All operations in the erection and/or installation and/or maintenance and/or repair of telecommunication equipment and/or any other equipment utilising the principles of electronics and/or radio, such as—

▪ telephone, telegraph and data transmission equipment;
▪ UHF and VHF radio links;
▪ automatic and manual telephone switching systems;
▪ supervisory and control systems; signalling systems;
▪ fault detection and alarm equipment; public address and paging systems; scientific, ultrasonic measuring and electro-medical equipment; navigation aids;
▪ mobile, marine, aircraft and broadcast radio equipment; closed circuit television equipment; interference suppression units; electrical and/or electronic test apparatus; industrial electronic equipment; radar and allied equipment;
▪ electronic distance measuring equipment.
▪

This Division does not include the installation, maintenance or repair of domestic articles, i.e. car, home and portable radios, television, tape recorders, gramophone equipment and loudspeakers.

 

For the purposes of this Division—

‘electronics’ means equipment where the primary circuits are based on the conductance of electricity through a vacuum, gas or semi-conductor;

‘radio’ means equipment where the primary function is to transmit and/or receive intelligence without the aid of a physical conductor.

 

RATE A

1. Electronics mechanician’s work (n.e.s.).
2. Telecommunication electrician’s work (n.e.s.).

 

RATE AA

1. Sectional supervision of lower-rated operatives, including the preparation of wiring harness boards.

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 1 — RATE B

1. Adjustment to predetermined limits of electrically and/or mechanically operated assemblies.
2. Complete sequential adjustment of two-motion selectors and/or uniselectors to predetermined limits (n.e.s.).
3. Forming-out of cable ends to colour codes and/or pictorial sketches and/or in fixtures without reference to schematic drawings, and the terminating of cables and/or wires and/or conductors to instructions and/or samples to main equipment and/or junction boxes and/or connecting blocks and/or terminals, including soldering and/or wrapping of wires, under supervision of a Rate A employee (n.e.s.).

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 2 — RATE C

1. Cleaning and/or lubricating and/or changing ribbons on recorders.
2. Cleaning and/or topping up secondary cells and/or replacing primary and/or secondary cells for time recording and similar equipment, under supervision of a Rate A employee.
3. Oiling and greasing of motor uniselectors according to verbal instructions of a Rate A or AA employee.
4. Suspending of cables between poles and/or walls and the surface mounting of subsidiary and auxiliary equipment, namely, telephone switchboards and/or telephones and/or master and/or slave clocks and/or time recorders and/or amplifiers and/or loudspeakers and/or sound signals and/or fire alarm breakpoints and/or fire detectors and/or production recording dials and/or control units and/or watchman protection points and/or signalling equipment and/or junction boxes and/or connection frames and/or connection blocks, including the fixing to walls, floors and ceilings by means of bolts and/or screws of control panels and/or racks, under supervision of a Rate A employee.

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 3 — RATE DD

First 12 months of experience........................................

Rate DDD

Thereafter.....................................................................

Rate DD

 

1. Making of wire harnesses on pre-prepared nail boards to running-out lists using colour codes and/or pictorial sketches.
2. Removing outer cable sheathing and stripping of individual conductors, in preparation for termination.
3. Repetition soft soldering on tags already wired and/or repetition wire wrapping.
4. Repetition testing with accept/reject testing equipment.

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 3A — RATE DDD

1. Assembly on site of pre-prepared apparatus racks where no fitting adjustments are required, using hand tools under supervision of a Rate A employee.

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 4 — RATE F

1. Application of anti-corrosive and/or protective coatings by brush.
2. Bolting up of pre-prepared steel work.
3. Cutting and/or grinding of metal-strip material already marked off.
4. Drilling of pre-marked holes by portable drilling machines, hole diameter not to exceed 30 mm.
5. Running in of cables in pre-prepared routes, including binding and/or fastening, but excluding wiring (n.e.s.).

 

OPERATIVE GRADE 5 — RATE G

1. Compound filling under supervision of a Rate A employee.
2. Laying of cables in pre-prepared trenches.
3. Spraying of paint and/or insulating medium and/or anti-corrosive coatings under supervision, other than blending.