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 D

Division D/18

Wire Drawing and/or Working and/or Weaving and/or Forming Manufacturing Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/18 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

Section (c): Wire working and/or weaving and/or forming and/or fabrication
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RATE B

1.Marking out and/or setting up of bench work from drawings and/or dimensional sketch.
2.Supervisory work, including setting up and/or adjusting.

 

RATE D

1.Marking out and/or setting up of bench work to templets.

 

RATE F

1.Operating chain link and/or diamond mesh machine (including machine running adjustments when necessitated by the manufacturing process).

 

RATE G

1.Assembling of pre-manufactured components requiring no fitting or adjusting, but including deburring.
2.Operating automatic chain link and/or diamond mesh machine (including machine running adjustments when necessitated by the manufacturing process).
3.Operating barbed wire plant.
4.Operating loom.
5.Operating wire forming machine.
6.Operating wire netting plant.
7.Repetition drilling to pops and/or jigs and/or templets.
8.Repetition marking off to jigs and/or templets and/or lengths gauges.
9.Spot and/or butt and/or arc spot welding.

 

RATE H

1.Bending and/or forming to jigs and/or dies and/or stops and/or marks.
2.Coiling and reeling.
3.Cropping and/or shearing and/or cutting to templets and/or marks and/or stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges.
4.Cutting off waste wire and/or locking and/or clinching.
5.Making screens to size already drawn by a Rate B employee.
6.Minding of swifts for crimping, including stopping and/or starting machine for semi-automatic and/or hand-operated looms.
7.Operating automatic straightening machine.
8.Operating braiding machine.
9.Operating wire and strand winding and measuring machine and/or butt welding of wire by machine, including brazing of wire.
10.Repetition wire working and/or fabricating to jigs.
11.Square and/or other mesh screen weaving into rolls and/or sheets on hand-operated machine, i.e. feeding machine.
12.Weaving square and/or other mesh screening by hand.
13.Attending automatic crimping machine.
14.Bobbin filling.
15.Pirn filling.
16.Stitching of pot scourers and/or final binding of pot scourers by methods other than stitching.
17.Wrap beam filling.
18.Wrap beam minding.