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ARTICLE 7 <br />PAYROLL DEDUCTION OF DUES <br />7.01 The Employer agrees to deduct the prescribed dues and assessments from earnings of those <br />employees who have signed individual notarized authorization cards for deduction of said <br />dues and assessments. Said authorization cards shall be periodically certified to be current <br />by the Union. The Employer shall remit said collections monthly to the duly designated <br />officer of the Union. <br />7.02 The Union shall indemnify, exonerate, and save harmless the Employer from any claims <br />and/or judgments against the Employer and/or Union based upon any check -off of union <br />dues, fees, or assessments. The Employer shall give written notice to the Union by registered <br />mail addressed to the President of the local of any claim, action, suit, or proceeding brought <br />by an employee, person, firm, or corporation against the Employer based in whole or in part <br />on any check -off of union dues, fees or assessments. The Union shall defend the said claim, <br />action, suit, or proceeding at its own cost and without expense to the Employer, even if such <br />claim, suit, action, or proceeding is false, groundless, or fraudulent. <br />7.03 An employee transferred to a classification not in the bargaining unit, or whose employment <br />is terminated, shall cease to be subject to check -off deduction beginning with the month in <br />which such change in employee status occurs. <br />7.04 The Employer shall not be required to collect union dues in arrears. Any change in dues <br />made by the Union will become effective after a thirty (30) day written notice by the Union <br />to the Employer. <br />7.05 The Employer shall have the right to withhold any or all amounts collected under this article <br />of the contract to satisfy any amounts owing to the Employer by the Union for violation of <br />this agreement, as determined by a court, arbitrator, or other entity of competent jurisdiction. <br />8 <br />