RATE A
1. Machine tool setting up.
2. Marking out (n.e.s.).
‘Marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material.
3. Panel beating.
4. Setting out (n.e.s.).
‘Setting out’ means the setting out of work on the floor or on the bench to sketches and/or drawings and/or dimensions.
RATE AA
| 1. | Assembly of traction motors and/or gear cases to bogies. |
| 2. | *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, excluding centre lathes (with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), boring mills, (vertical, horizontal and turret type – with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machining. |
*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, calipers and the like.
| 3. | Straightening of coach body side panels (free-hand work). |
| 4. | Straightening of superstructure panels (free-hand work). |
RATE B
1. Cold sawing where the sawyer marks direct from cutting list.
| 2. | Drilling machine work (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Riveting pressure vessels. |
| 4. | Supervisory work (n.e.s.), including marking off when making adjustments to the components of underframes and/or bogies. |
RATE C
| 1. | Operating multi-head oxyacetylene cutting machines and/or flame planing and/or flame 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 stops and/or jigs and/or guides on production machines. |
RATE D
| 1. | Arc and/or gas cutting (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Assembling of complete subassemblies and/or units where there is positive location and no fitting and/or adjustment is required, including positional adjustment under the supervision of a Rate A employee, but excluding traction motors, gear cases and/or diesel engines. |
| 3. | Bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops in press-brake and/or power folding machine (excluding setting up). |
| 4. | Bending of pipes and/or tubes to data sheets or templets. |
| 5. | Drilling and/or countersinking and/or reaming (n.e.s.), including the use of adjustable reamers provided they are pre-set by a Rate A or AA employee, including the sharpening of drills. |
| 6. | Drilling on radial drilling machines to jigs and/or fixtures and/or marks, excluding setting (n.e.s.). |
| 7. | Hand welding by mechanically fed electrodes. |
| 8. | Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding setting up but including the use of fixed gauges). |
9. *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.
| 10. | Operating automatic arc and/or gas and/or foil welding machine. |
| 11. | Operating power saw (n.e.s.), including marking off with rule and/or tape measure only and including setting of stops (n.e.s.). |
| 12. | Operating single head oxyacetylene profiling and/or straightline cutting machine to templets. |
| 13. | Press operating (n.e.s.), including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is positive location, excluding setting-up (excluding press-brake). |
| 14. | Preliminary shrinking and/or straightening of interior panels by hand tools. |
| 15. | Preliminary shrinking of body ends by hand tools. |
| 16. | Preliminary welding for positioning of jobs prior to welding or riveting or bolting up (runs of not more than 40 mm in length). |
| 17. | Repetition assembly of prepared sets of pipes and/or tubes and/or conduits. |
| 18. | Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to stops and/or templets and/or length gauges. |
| 19. | Repetiton operation of templet copying punch machine. |
| 20. | Repetition roller bending and/or forming involving the use of metal not exceeding 4 mm in thickness. |
| 21. | Repetition roller forming of plate with pre-set rolls. |
| 22. | *Repetition welding and/or brazing in jigs. |
*‘Repetition welding and/or brazing in jigs’ means that the jig must be made in such a manner as to allow the employee to undertake the maximum amount of welding and/or brazing on the article in the jig and thereafter an employee at the same rate may complete the weld on the article when it is removed from the jig.
23. Riveting (10 mm diameter or less).
RATE DD
| 1. | Operating mechanical bevelling machine, excluding setting of cutters. |
RATE F
| 1. | Assisting a Rate D employee in the loading of premanufactured components and/or subassemblies into jigs and/or underframes and/or shells and bolting up, excluding fitting and/or adjustment but including deburring. Employees may only be employed on the operation set out at Rate F of this Schedule provided that the ratio of employees in the establishment is not less than one Rate D employee to three Rate F employees. |
| 2. | Attending automatic submerged arc and/or gas shielded wire and/or flux cored wire arc welding machines 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 to B employee. |
| 3. | Repetition bending of conduits and/or pipes and/or tubes in manual operated machines to templates and/or stops (excluding setting of stops). |
4. Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F (when so appointed).
RATE G
| 1. | Application of anti-corrosive and/or anti-fouling and/or protective coatings. |
| 2. | Attending, cleaning and/or degreasing of acid and/or rinsing and/or fluxing baths. |
| 3. | 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. |
| 4. | Hand bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops. |
| 6. | Metal buffing and/or polishing. |
| 7. | Oiling and/or greasing machinery. |
| 8. | Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine, where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or templets. |
| 9. | Operating power hammer (hammer driving) under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 10. | 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). |
| 11. | Reaming, using non-adjustable reamers. |
| 12. | Repetition arc spot and/or butt and/or flash and/or projection and/or resistance and/or seam and/or spot and/or stud welding by machine. |
| 13. | 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. |
| 14. | 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. |
| 15. | Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to fixtures and/or gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or predrilled holes, excluding radial drill. |
| 16. | Repetition forging under power hammer, using pre-set forming dies, excluding hand manipulation. |
| 17. | Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine (excluding setting up). |
| 18. | Rethreading and/or retapping. |
| 19. | Rough straightening and/or rough flattening of material, excluding the use of rules and straight edges and excluding structural metal work. |
| 20. | Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting. |
| 21. | Screwing machine operating, excluding setting up. |
| 22. | Shrinking of coach body sides in a heating jig under supervision of a Rate A to AA employee. |
| 23. | Straightening and/or flattening of gussets and/or cleats. |
| 24. | Striking by hand hammer under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 25. | Stripping and/or punching forgings and/or stampings, using preset dies. |
RATE H
| 1. | Affixing slings under supervision of Rate A to D employee. |
| 2. | Dipping in enamel and/or lacquer and/or paint. |
| 3. | Holding up and/or backing up for riveting. |
| 4. | Lagging of pipes and/or securing of lagging by clips. |
| 5. | Repetition deburring and/or fettling by hand and/or by machine. |
| 7. | Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or nameplates. |
