UFCW Guide to Contracts on the Web Prepared By the UFCW Strategic Resources Department

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1 UFCW Guide to Contracts on the Web Prepared By the UFCW Strategic Resources Department The UFCW s Contracts on The Web is a text-searchable contract database covering over 500,000 UFCW members. The site includes a sampling of contracts in a variety of UFCW-represented industries. Contracts on the Web allows you to quickly retrieve specific contracts according to a variety of search criteria. Contracts are easily opened in a Microsoft Word or PDF format and available for printing. Full-Text contract searching allows the user to review contracts for specific language. Contracts on the Web allows you to do the following: Find contracts for a specific Industry Find contracts for a specific Employer View sample contract language View model contract language 1. Accessing Contracts on the Web Go to Select the Registered Users option and proceed to enter your password and login. If you have not been assigned a Password and Login, please contract the UFCW Collective Bargaining Department. The following is the introductory screen for Contracts on the Web: 1

2 Welcome to UFCW Online Bargaining Agreements In an effort to assist you, the UFCW Collective Bargaining department has provided this tool so that you will have access, once you login, to current UFCW contracts. The online database will be updated, regularly, as new UFCW collective bargaining agreements are negotiated. You may access entire contracts or specific provisions and language through the site's indexing and search features. While an online help tutorial is included on the site, the UFCW Strategic Resources Department will be conducting training workshops so locals can become familiar with the site's accessing and researching procedures. For any questions about the contracts information provided or how to access that information, please contact Jay Pascucci in the Strategic Resources Department at Once you link to the introductory page of this database, you will be asked to input your assigned User ID/Password. If you have not been assigned a User ID/Password combination, please contact Executive Vice President Bill McDonough s office at This site is restricted to use by certain UFCW affiliates only. Except by authorized users and for UFCW purposes only, no part of the materials available in the UFCW Contracts Database may be copied, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, further transmitted or otherwise reproduced, stored, disseminated, transferred or used, in any form or by any means. Unauthorized use of the UFCW Contracts Database is strictly prohibited. 2

3 2. How to Use Contracts on the Web There are two ways to begin searching: 1) Table of Contents, and 2) the Search Page A. Table of Contents To access the Table of Contents click on the Contracts link under the Databases heading. The table of contents displays all of the contracts in the database by UFCW Region. Clicking on a Region lists all of the contracts in the online database for that region. To view a particular contract simply double-click on that contract. To browse the contract, use the scroll bars on the right side of the page. 3

4 Contract Field information On the top of each contract displayed will be basic contract information as seen below as well as via the Contract Data link on the lower left-hand corner of the contract screen. This information is taken from the UFCW Contract Directory and will be used in more detail when performing criteria searches. 4

5 Printing There are two options to print an agreement from Contracts on the Web: 1) PDF, and 2) Microsoft Word 1. PDF To print in PDF format click on the link to the PDF version. Once the document is open click the print button on the PDF toolbar. (You need to have Adobe s Acrobat Reader already installed on your computer to print PDF file formats.) 2. Word Document To print as a Microsoft Word file, right click the link to the Word document. Select Save Target As from the menu and save the file to your hard drive. Once the file is saved, open it using Microsoft Word and print the file. You may also double-click on the Word document link then click on the Open tab to open. Once the document s open, click on the Print icon to print. 5

6 B. Search Page One can search the entire Contracts on the Web bargaining agreement database, including the bodies of contracts as well as all field information. Click on the Search Page link on the left of the Contracts on the Web screen to load the search page. Type the word or phrase that you re looking for in the appropriate field. After you have entered words or phrases to search, click on the search button to begin. Upon completion of the search a Hit List will be displayed. 6

7 The Following types of advanced searches are supported by Contracts on the Web: Boolean Searches Proximity Searches Wildcard Characters Numeric Range Searches Date Range SearchesBoolean Search These are special words that show a relationship between two words/phrases. There are three Boolean Operators you can use with Contracts on the Web: And Or Not 7

8 For example, to retrieve a list of all Kroger or Safeway agreements in Contracts on the Web, type Kroger or Safeway in the employer name search box and click on search. 8

9 Proximity Search A proximity search looks for words or phrases that are close to each other. Suppose you want to search for the words steward and "training. You could simply search for "steward training" but you might miss related phrases like "steward grievance training". A proximity search will allow you find these. To conduct a Proximity Search type the word "near" between two words or phrases you're looking for. For example, typing steward near training in the document search field will return every occurrence of steward that is within 10 words of training. The default is 10 words. However, you can change this by specifying the range. If you want to make the Proximity Range broader or more narrow you can set the number of words within which Contracts on the Web will search. To do this, enter a number for the range after "near" as follows: steward near (3) training. In this case we are looking for the word steward only when it is within 3 words of training. By making the range narrower one can eliminate instances where steward has nothing to do with training. 9

10 Wildcard Search You can use wildcard characters when searching. They are helpful in cases where only a partial spelling of the word is known or the word is known in different forms. You can search for work, worker, and working by simply entering work*. By adding the asterisk (*) at the end of work you can search for all words beginning with work. You can also use the asterisk (*) anywhere and any number of times in your search terms. By adding an asterisk before bargain (*bargain*) and after bargain, for example, will find bargain and bargaining, and also will return non-bargaining since bargain is a stem in the middle of the word. Numeric Range Searching A numeric range search looks for numbers that fall within a larger group (or range) of numbers. This range is entered into a numeric field on the advanced search form. The first method uses the to operator. For instance, if one wanted a list of all contracts with bargaining units between 100 persons and 200 persons, enter 100 to 200 in the bargaining unit size field. An array of other Numeric Range Operators exist: Example: To find contracts covering over 10,000 employees, enter more than or > in the bargaining unit size field. 10

11 Date Range Search A date range search looks for dates that fall within a larger group (or Range) of dates. The range is entered into the date field of an advanced search form. There are two ways to set the range: By entering a date range operator between two numbers, or by entering a date range operator and a single number. 11

12 Search Results After you have entered your Search Term(s) and clicked on the Search Button, you will be shown a list of hits. For instance, a search on bargaining units greater than 10,000 would return the following screen: : Contracts on the Web tells you the total number of hits and how many documents along with the expression you used The list is arranged by the number of hits. There is only one entry for each document in which Contracts on the Web found at least one hit. Only the first 20 documents are displayed. Click Next Page to see more search results. Click on the Return All Rows link to print the search results on a single page. 12

13 Click on any contract to display the document. Contracts on the Web will open it to the first hit and display the hit navigation button. You can return to the search results at any time by clicking on Search Results on the left side of your screen. Your search results will remain until you conduct another search. To Print the Search Results: 1. Click the Return All Rows link 2. Click the Print Hit List link Hit Navigation When you open a contract from the Hit List the hit navigation buttons appear on the toolbar on the side of the screen. Use the Hit Navigation buttons to go from hit to hit within a contract. As you click on the next and previous hit buttons, you will jump to the appropriate place in the contract. All of the hits will be highlighted as you navigate. 13

14 If you have any further questions regarding the use of the Contract Directory System, please do not hesitate to contact Jay Pascucci in the UFCW International Union s Strategic Resources Department. 14