WORKING AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

MINUTEMAN INTERNATIONAL, INC.

111 SOUTH ROHLWING RD.

ADDISON, IL 60101

&

SIGN, DISPLAY, PICTORIAL ARTISTS

& ALLIED WORKERS

LOCAL #830

AFFILIATED WITH THE

PAINTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL 14

MAY 22, 2003

TO

MAY 21, 2008

INDEX

WORKING AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

MINUTEMAN INTERNATIONAL, INC.

111 SOUTH ROHLWING RD, ADDISON, IL 60101

&

SIGN, DISPLAY, PICTORIAL ARTISTS & ALLIED WORKERS

LOCAL #830

AFFILIATED WITH THE PAINTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL 14

AGREEMENT

This Agreement has been entered into at Addison, Illinois, between Minuteman International, Inc., with respect only to the hereinafter defined employees employed at its plant facilities located at 111 South Rohlwing Road, Addison, Illinois 60101, and referred to as the Company, and Sign, Display, Pictorial Artists & Allied Workers, Local #830, affiliated with the Painters District Council 14, and referred to as the Union.

SECTION I - Recognition

1.1      The Company recognizes the Union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of its hereinafter defined employees for the purpose of collective bargaining, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, as amended.  The term employees or employee, as used in this Agreement shall mean and include all production and maintenance employees.  It shall exclude all office clericals, plant clericals, professional employees, guards and supervisors.

SECTION II - Union Security

2.1      UNION SHOP:  It shall be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement who are members of the Union in good standing on the effective date of this Agreement, shall remain members in good standing.  Those who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement shall, on or after the 30th day following the effective date of this Agreement, become and remain members in good standing in the Union.  It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired on or after its effective date shall, on or after the 30th day following the date of employment, become and remain members in good standing in the Union.  In the interest of maintaining a stable work force, the Union shall notify the Company of any members delinquency in dues or initiation fees at least five days before requesting his discharge under the terms of this Section, in order to permit the assistance of the Company in restoring such delinquent member to good standing.

2.2      In accordance with the provisions of Section 302 (C) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 as amended for each employee covered by this Agreement who executes and submits to the Company a valid written authorization form acceptable to the Company, the Company will deduct initiation fees and monthly dues from the pay

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of each such employee in the amount and manner prescribed by the Union, in accordance with its constitution and by-laws.  Said deduction shall be made monthly from each such employees pay for the pay period in each month, which includes the first day of the calendar month.  If an employee has no pay due at said pay period, said deduction shall be made from the first pay period thereafter that the employee has pay due to him.  Such deductions shall be forwarded to the Union before the 15th of the month in which the money is so deducted.

2.3      The Union agrees to indemnify, hold and save the Company harmless of, from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, liabilities and expenses that may arise out of or by reason of any action taken or not taken by the Company for the purpose of complying with any of the provisions of paragraph 2.2, or in reliance of any notice, authorization or assignment furnished pursuant to the aforesaid provisions of this Section II.

SECTION III - Management

3.1      It is agreed that the Company retain all management rights and functions possessed prior to the Agreement, except such rights as are expressly relinquished or restricted in this Agreement, and that the Company retains the sole right to manage its facilities and business, and the right to plan, direct, control and maintain order and efficiency in its operation.

3.2      The Company retains the right to control and regulate the use of all equipment and other Company property; the Company, in its judgement, will increase, decrease, change operations, remove or install machinery or appliances, and determine work  assignments,  processes  and  procedures; and  the Company retains the right to determine the extent to which the plant shall be operated or shall be shut down, and the right to move or relocate all or any part of the present plant operations to any other location, and establish new or additional facilities at other locations.

In the event the Company moves or relocates its entire operations, existing at the date of this Agreement, to another location, the employees covered by this Agreement shall be granted the opportunity to follow to the new location.  The terms of this Agreement shall, likewise, be in full force and in effect at such new location.

3.3      The Company retains the right to make reasonable plant rules and regulations, enact Company policies, hire, direct its working forces, assign work, promote, transfer and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other legitimate reasons; discharge for just cause, subject to the grievance procedure.

3.4      The Company shall have the right to contract out work, provided that it will not directly result in the layoff of any of its employees, provided further that in any event and not withstanding the foregoing provision, the Company shall have the right to contract out work if:

          The Company has no qualified employees readily available to perform the work in question; or

          The Company does not have the machinery, equipment or tools necessary to perform the work in question; or

          Contracting out is necessary because of production schedules or to maintain or insure efficient production operations; or

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