I have been working over 9.5 for years(with few weeks in the year I don’t violate) along with many others . We have all been filing for years but the company has basically stopped paying grievances since early of last year. Some guys have over twenty 9.5 grievances unpaid from last year.
First off, you aren't violating, the Company is.
Secondly, keep filing the grievances and gather up all of your co-workers (and the steward) who are also filing 9.5 grievances that aren't being heard, and file labor charges with the NLRB for an unfair labor practice on the Company and perhaps your local for not processing the grievances.
This process is very costly, especially if there are multiple submissions.
The 9.5 language not only provides for the Company to pay a penalty, but also outlines a progression that is to take place if the penalty pay is not effectuating a change in your paid day.
Certainly, anybody with 20+ 9.5 grievances over a 1 year period will be seen as not being protected under this language.
It's a shame when you have to fight the Company and your Local both, in order to receive what you are entitled to contractually, but trust me, that's my life.
Hang in there and good luck.