SIDE LETTERS
OF THE
1991 NATIONAL AGREEMENT
#1
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding with respect to the general wage increase provided for in Article I, Section 1, and the signing bonus provided for in Article 1. Section 2, of the Agreement of this date.
The carriers will make all reasonable efforts to pay the retroactive portion of such general wage increase and the signing bonus as soon as possible and no later than sixty (60) days after the date of this Agreement.
If a carrier finds it impossible to make such payments within that specified time period, such carrier shall notify you in writing explaining why such payments have not been made and indicating when the payments will be made.
Very truly yours,
Robert F. Allen
#2
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin;
This refers to the increase in wages provided for in Section 1 of Article I of the Agreement of this date.
It is understood that the retroactive portion of that wage increase shall be applied only to employees who have an employment relationship with a carrier on the date of this Agreement or who retired or died subsequent to December 1, 1.995.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#3
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding regarding Article I - Wages of the Agreement of this date.
Solely for the purpose of concluding this Agreement, the carriers have agreed to apply the general wage increases provided for therein to mileage rates of pay for miles run in excess of the number of miles comprising a basic day (overmiles) and to compute the lump sums provided for therein without excluding overmiles.
Our agreement to include language providing for such applications shall not be considered as precedent for how such issues should be addressed in the future and is without prejudice to our position that this component of the pay system is inappropriate.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#4
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This refers to the Lump Sum Payments provided for in Article I of the Agreement of this date.
Sections 3 and 5 of Article I are structured so as to provide payments that are essentially based on the compensation earned by an employee during a specified calendar year. Section 10 provides that all of these payments are payable to an employee who has an employment relationship as of the dates such payments are made or has retired or died subsequent to the beginning of the applicable calendar year used to determine the amount of such payments. Thus, for example, under Section 3 of Article I, except for an employee who has retired or died, the Agreement requires that an employee have an employment relationship on July 1, 1996 in order to receive that lump sum payment.
The intervals between the close of the measurement periods and the actual payments established in the 1991 National Implementing Document were in large measure a. convenience to the carriers in order that there be adequate time to make the necessary calculations.
In recognition of this, we again confirm the understanding that an individual having an employment relationship with a carrier on the last day of a particular calendar year used to determine the amount of a payment under Section 3 and 5 of Article I will not be disqualified from receiving the payment provided for in the event his employment relationship is terminated following the last day of such calendar year but prior to the payment due date.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
#5
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding with respect to Article III, Section 2 and Article V, Section 1 of the Agreement of this date.
'Those provisions shall be applied effective on the first day of the calendar month immediately following the month in which this Agreement is ratified.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#6
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding regarding Article V - Benefits Eligibility of the Agreement of this date.
This will confirm our understanding that eligibility criteria in effect on December 31, 1995 governing coverage by The Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan shall continue to apply to employees represented by the organization who hold positions as working General Chairmen, Local Chairmen, and State Legislative Board Chairmen ("local officials") . In other words, the changes in eligibility as set forth in Article V, Section 1 are not intended to revise eligibility conditions for local officials. It is
further understood that by providing this exclusion it is not intended that the total number of such officials covered be expanded.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
. P. McLaughlin
#7
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding regarding Article V - Benefits Eligibility of the Agreement of this date.
This will confirm our understanding that vacation qualification criteria in effect on the date of this Agreement shall continue to apply to employees represented by the organization who hold positions as working General Chairmen, Local Chairmen, and State Legislative Board Chairmen P'local officials") . In other words, the changes in qualification as set forth in Article V, Section 2 are not intended to revise vacation qualification conditions for such local officials. It is further understood that by providing this exclusion it is not intended that the total number of such officials covered be expanded.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#8
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
During the negotiations which led to the Agreement of this date, the parties had numerous discussions about the relationship between time worked and benefits received. The carriers were concerned that certain employees were not making themselves sufficiently available for work, but due to the then current eligibility requirements such employees remained eligible for health and welfare benefits.
As a result of these discussions, the parties agreed to tighten one eligibility requirement from any compensated service in a month to seven calendar days compensated service in a month (the "seven-day rule"). However, it was not the intent of the parties to affect employees by this change where such employees have made themselves available for work and would have satisfied the seven day rule but for an Act of God, an assignment of work which did not permit satisfaction of the seven-day rule, or because monthly mileage limitations, monthly earnings limitations and/or maximum monthly trip provisions prevented an employee from satisfying that rule.
Also, where employees return to work from furlough, suspension, dismissal, or disability (including pregnancy), or commence work as new hires, at a time during a month when there is not opportunity to render compensated service on at least seven calendar days during that month, such employees will be deemed to have satisfied the seven-day rule, provided that they are available or actually work every available work opportunity.
However, in no case will an employee be deemed eligible for benefits under the new eligibility requirement if such employee would not have been eligible under the old requirements.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#9
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understandings regarding Article VIII - Rate Progression Adjustment For Promotion of the Agreement of this date -
1. Such Article is not intended to supplant existing rules that treat employees more favorably with respect to rate progression, including while working as or upon promotion to engineer. That is, such rules are preserved and shall continue to apply in lieu of Article VIII.
2 . Any promotion adjustment made pursuant to Article VIII shall be applied solely on a prospective basis.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#10
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding regarding Article IX Enhanced Customer Service of the Agreement of this date.
In recent years the rail freight sector of the transportation market place has taken steps toward a more competitive discipline which, if successful, could point the rail industry toward more growth. The parties to this Agreement are intent on nurturing these improvements. In this respect we mutually recognize that an important reason underlying the recent improvement has been enhanced focus on customer needs and improved service as the framework for working conditions. Increased employee productivity and more immediate responses to customer needs by railroad employees at all levels have been and will continue to be at the very heart of this effort.
In order to continue these recent improvements, the parties intend to respond to customers' needs with even greater efforts. In Article IX, we have developed a framework for achieving our mutual goal of retaining existing customers and attracting new business by providing more efficient and expedient service, including relaxation of work rules specified therein where and to the extent necessary for those purposes. we are also in accord that these undertakings should appropriately recognize the interests of affected employees in fair and equitable working conditions.
This will confirm our understanding that the NCCC Chairman and the BLE President shall promptly confer on any carrier proposal under Article IX that the BLE President deems to be egregiously inconsistent with our mutual intent. Such proposal shall be held in abeyance pending conference and shall not be implemented until adjusted by agreement of the parties or, absent such agreement,
resolved by expedited, party paid arbitration as set forth in the attachment hereto.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#11
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This refers to our discussions concerning flowback arrangements between engine and train service positions in those situations where the BLE represents engineers. Each carrier shall meet with and obtain the concurrence of the BLE representatives having jurisdiction over the engineers, seniority roster or rosters involved in any flowback arrangements on such carrier before the flowback arrangements are implemented.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
#12
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding with respect to the Agreement of this date.
The parties exchanged various proposals and drafts antecedent to adoption of the various Articles that, appear in this Agreement. It is our mutual understanding that none of such antecedent proposals and drafts will be used by any party for any purpose and that the provisions of this Agreement will be interpreted and applied as though such proposals and drafts had not been used or exchanged in the negotiation.
Please acknowledge your agreement by signing your name in the space provided below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
Agreement to Arbitrate Between
The International Brotherhood of Locomotive,
and the
Carriers Represented by the National Carriers Conference Committee
The parties agree to the following:
I. The Question-At-Issue to be submitted to arbitration shall be: In light of the agreement attached and all other relevant circumstances, should locomotive engineers receive any certification pay? If so, how much?
II. The major dispute arbitration provisions of the Railway Labor Act shall govern.
III. The parties have agreed on three impartial arbitrators to serve on the Arbitration Board. In the event one or more of those selected cannot serve, the parties shall agree on substitutes. The Arbitration Award may be rejected by individual General Committees if appropriate carrier official
IV. Where negotiations on local issues have begun but not concluded between the BLE and a carrier represented by the NCCC, the parties shall continue such negotiations until agreement is reached but in no event later than April 20, 1996.
V. The parties have attached a tentative timetable (Exhibit A) for processing this matter and commit to maintaining these time frames to the best of their abilities.
VI. This agreement is in full and final settlement of the notices served by the BLE on or after November 1. 1994 on carriers represented by the NCCC in the current round of bargaining and notices served by or on behalf of such carriers on the BLE on or after November 1, 1994.
VII. The parties recognize that this agreement must be submitted by the BLE for ratification in accordance with the BLE's Constitution and by-laws. The BLE shall notify the NCCC of the results of the ratification as promptly as possible.
IBLE NCCC
Exhibit A
TENTATIVE TIMETABLE AS AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES
I. Reach written agreement by 2/24/96
II. BLE completes ratification process by 4/20/96
III. Agreement implemented 7 ratification approval. 4/27/96 days after notification of
IV. Arbitration Board conducts hearings no later than after ratification approval. 5/6/96
V. Hearings completed in two days including rebuttal.
4 days
5/7/96
VI. Post-hearing briefs submitted within seven days of hearing. 5/14/96
VII. Award issued no later than 8/1/96.
IBLE
NCCC
Mr. Ronald P. McLaughlin
President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Standard Building
1370 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113-1702
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This confirms our understanding that during the arbitration process either party is free to make whatever arguments it chooses as to the propriety or lack thereof of offsetting any certification pay by means of granting rules relief to the carriers. Moreover, the jurisdiction of the arbitrators to address the merits of such arguments will not be challenged.
Please acknowledge this agreement by signing your name in the space below.
Yours very truly,
Robert F. Allen
I agree:
R. P. McLaughlin
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
Between
BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY
And The
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
ARTICLE -XIII
Each engineer, regardless of length of service, who is required by the Carrier to attend periodic training in order to maintain certification pursuant to CFR Part 240, at a location other than his home terminal, will be allowed $ 233.00 for each day of classroom training. This allowance is not subject to entry rate reductions. One travel day prior to first day of training, and one travel day following training, will not be compensated under this provision. Any travel requirements that exceed the one day, either before or after training, will be compensated by allowance of $ 233.00 for each additional calendar day. This allowance is subject to general wage and cost of living allowance increases. Reasonable transportation, lodging and meal expenses will be allowed. This provision supersedes all preceding provisions, agreements, understandings or practices concerning payment for engineer certification. This article is not intended to apply to safety meetings, rules exams or similar activities that are conducted at the home terminal.
ARTICLE XIV ENTRY RATES
Every locomotive engineer will be compensated at full (100%) rates when actually working as an
engineer, including while assigned to engineers' guaranteed extra board. All other compensation,
including but not limited to deadheading compensation, will be subject to applicable entry rate
progressions.
ARTICLE XV SPECIAL PAY DIFFERENTIAL
On the effective date of this agreement, all allowances paid to engineers, regardless of length of service, for working with a reduced crew and all related entitlement are eliminated. Payments eliminated include payments under Article I of OPS 33-81 and OPS 34-81, dated April 24, 198 11 Side Letter 20 of Arbitration Award 458, and Article V - Special Pay Differential contained in Implementation of Public Law 102 - 29. The differential of $4.00 and .04 cents per mile and/or $6.00 and .06 cents per mile paid to engineers working without a fireman is also eliminated.
On the effective date of this agreement, each engineer regardless of length of service, actually working in through freight service (subject to the 130-mile basic day) will receive a flat payment of $27.00 for each such working trip or tour of duty, in addition to normal trip payments provided for in other agreements and not canceled by this agreement. Each engineer in any other class of service will receive a flat payment of $18.00 for each such working trip or tour of duty, in addition to normal trip payments. These payments are frozen through June 30, 1998, and then subject to a 3.50% wage increase effective July 1, 1998, and thereafter will be subject to general wage and cost of living increases.
ARTICLE XVI 401 (K)
A 401 (k) plan or arrangement will be established as soon as practicable and following ratification of this agreement, in which locomotive engineers can participate and in which the employee contribution level is equal to the maximum Company deduction allowable by law, based upon locomotive engineers' compensation and assuming maximum participation by all participants.
ARTICLE XVII TERRITORIAL QUALIFICATION
When an engineer is required by rules to make territorial qualification or familiarization trips, such engineer will be compensated by allowance of a basic day at the rate of the Engineers' Guaranteed Extra List Agreement, dated April 4, 1994, for each trip or tour of duty. Such trips will be made with a certified engineer who is currently qualified on the territory, or with a qualified officer of the Carrier.
ARTICLE XVIII DIRECT DEPOSIT OF PAYROLL CHECKS
Each engineer shall participate in the program providing for the direct deposit of payroll checks into the employee's bank account. This provision will become effective with a sixty day notice by the Carrier to employees.
ARTICLE XIX TELEPHONE SERVICE
Each engineer must maintain telephone service, or other authorized electronic communication device, to facilitate transmission of call information. Any rules, understandings or practices that require a personal contact call at the employees' residence are eliminated.
ARTICLE XX TERMINAL RUNAROUNDS
All rules and agreements that provide for an additional payment to engineers for not departing the terminal in proper order are eliminated, and all entitlements to any such payment are, accordingly rescinded. Any engineer who does not depart the terminal in proper order of call will be entitled to restoration of turn under applicable agreements, including local memorandums.
ARTICLE XXI MARKING UP FOR DUTY
Each engineer in any class of service who is authorized time off for any reason, including for vacation, will be marked up for service upon expiration of the period authorized unless additional time is requested and granted prior to the expiration of the authorized period. This provision does not preclude an engineer from marking up earlier than the end of the authorized period.
ARTICLE XXII ROAD MEALS
In through freight service only all rules and agreements that provide for an entitlement to a meal, or provide for any payment in lieu thereof, during a tour of duty in are eliminated, and all such entitlements are accordingly rescinded.
This agreement is effective day of 1996, and will remain in effect until canceled or amended in accordance with the Railway Labor Act, as amended.
FOR: FOR:
NATIONAL CARRIERS BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chairman BLE
General Chairman BLE
General Chairman BLE
APPROVED:
Vice President BLE
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers SIDE LETTER NO. 1
2151 East AA Highway ,1996
Springfield, MO 65803
Dear Mr. Dean:
This refers to our discussions regarding elements of pay referred to in Section 2(d) of the agreement of April 4, 1994 which are not intended to be offset against the extra board guarantee. We understood that the $18.00 trip payment for Engineers operating in other than through freight service and $18.00 of the $27.00 trip payment in through freight service would be paid in addition to the guarantee amount.
We further understood that when general wage increases are applied to the $18.00 and the $27.00 payments, respectively, the proportionate amount resulting from application of the increase(s) to the $18.00 would, likewise, be paid in addition to the guarantee for extra board engineers.
If you concur this accurately reflects our understanding, please sign in the space provided below.
Very truly yours I concur:
John J. Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, VP-BLE
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
2151 East AA Highway SIDE LETTER NO. 2
Springfield, MO 65803 1996
Dear Mr. Dean:
This confirms our understanding regarding Article 1- LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER RECERTIFICATION of the agreement.
We agree that when an engineer is scheduled to report to the training center for Recertification and such engineer stands for service on a trip which the engineer may not be able to complete and still have reasonable time to comply with the travel arrangements, the engineer must notify the Manager of Operating Practices or other designated officer prior to commencement of the trip (no later than the call time). The decision whether to mark off or make the trip will be made by the MOP/designated officer. When the decision of the designated officer is to mark off, the engineer will be marked off and paid as though having made the trip.
During the discussions there was concern expressed by both sides regarding the potential abuse of this circumstance. We were all in accord that the decision made by the designated officer was to be made based on consideration of the expected time to complete the service trip and to allow reasonable time thereafter for the engineer to gather belongings and materials necessary for the trip to the training center and to travel to the departure point of the means of conveyance being utilized. We also understood that engineers who choose not to travel to or from the training center by the means provided at Carrier's expense (normally by air) would not be allowed payment for lost earnings in excess of what others from the same location were given under usual travel circumstances.
If this accurately reflects our understanding, please indicate your concurrence in the spaces provided for that purpose below.
Very truly yours, I concur:
John Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, Vice President
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
2151 East AA Highway SIDE LETTER NO. 3
Springfield, MO 65803 1996
Dear Mr. Dean:
This confirms the understanding reached relative to Article 3-SPECIAL PAY DIFFERENTIAL of the agreement.
We agree that the following agreements referred to in this Article 3 are of no further force and effect:
OPS 33-81, OPS 34-81 dated April 24, 1981
Side Letter 20 of Arbitration Award 458
Article V of Public Law 102-29.
We further understand, however, that the provision quoted below is maintained:
Engineers performing service with reduced train or yard crews will not be held responsible for accidents caused by failure of radio equipment to properly function. Carrier will be responsible for maintenance of radios, and engineers will not be held responsible for failure or malfunction of radio equipment unless obviously caused by employee abuse or tampering.
If this accurately reflects our understanding, please indicate your concurrence in the space provided for that purpose below.
Very truly yours, I concur:
John Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, Vice President
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
2151 East AA Highway SIDE LETTER NO. 4
Springfield, MO 65803 1996
Dear Mr. Dean:
This confirms the understanding reached relative to Article 5-TERRITORIAL QUALIFICATION of the agreement.
We mutually intended that engineers on an extra list would not be bypassed by other engineers from the list due to not being qualified on a particular territory. In any event, we did agree when an engineer assigned to an extra list is bypassed for lack of territorial qualification he would not have the guarantee to which he would otherwise be entitled reduced.
If this accurately reflects our understanding, please indicate your concurrence in the space provided for that purpose below.
Very truly yours, I concur:
John Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, Vice President
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
2151 East AA Highway SIDE LETTER NO. 5
Springfield, MO 65803 1996
Dear Mr. Dean:
This confirms the understanding reached relative to Article VII-ENHANCED EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES of the core agreement.
Specifically, we discussed the intent and meaning of the phrase 'deprived of employment' contained in Section I of said Article VII. We agreed that an engineer who meets all of the requirements of Article VII would not be deprived of the benefits contained therein by virtue of any exercise of seniority to which he was entitled pursuant to the BN/BLE Transfer Agreement dated November 1, 1990.
If this accurately reflects our understanding, please indicate your concurrence in the space
provided for that purpose below.
Very truly yours, I concur:
John Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, Vice President
Mr. R. E. Dean
Vice President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
2151 East AA Highway SIDE LETTER NO. 6
Springfield, MO 65803 1996
Dear Mr. Dean:
This confirms the understanding reached relative to Paragraph (f) of Section 2-Vacation Benefits of Article V-BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY of the core agreement.
We agreed that engineers desiring to take one week of their vacation day at a time will so indicate on the appropriate form provided by the Carrier at the time when making application for the following years vacation.
If this accurately reflects our understanding, please indicate your concurrence in the space provided for that purpose below.
Very truly yours, I concur:
John Fleps
Vice President Labor Relations R.E. Dean, Vice President
Question No. 1 Does Jan. 1 anniversary date (applicable to vacations) apply to PL days?
Response - Yes.
Question No- 2 - Do PL days earned but not taken get paid upon retirement the same as vacation?
Response - Yes.
Question No. 3 - Will individuals who qualified for PL days in 1996 and who retire prior to Jan. 1, 1997 get paid for have their PL days they would had in 1997?
(Due to 1- 1 -97 effective date)
Response- No.
Question No. 4 - May the carrier allow taking of PL days on less than 48 hours notice?
Response - Yes, dependent on manpower availability at the time request is made.
Questions No. 5 - How does engineer advise carrier of desire to accumulate PL days?
Response - PL days not used in a calendar year will automatically be accumulated.
Question No. 6 - How many PL days may an Engineer accumulate?
Response - 60.
Question No. 7 - Assuming that an Engineer has accumulated PL days, if he resigns, retires or dies, will he or his estate be paid for the accumulated PL days?
Response - Yes
Question No. 8 - What rate of pay will be used for accumulated PL days?
Response- Payment will be at the rate of the last service performed.
Question No. 9 - Assuming that an Engineer has begun an extended leave just prior to a general wage increase, will all PL days taken be paid at the rate of the last service performed, or will the rate be increased when GWI goes into effect?
Response - Payment will be at the rate of the last service performed.
Question No. 10 - May the carrier unilaterally buy down an Engineer's accumulated PL days?
Response - No.
If you concur that the preceding accurately reflects our conference discussion, please indicate
so by signing and returning one copy of this letter.
Sincerely,
T. R. Murphy
General Chairman
D. L. McPherson
General Chairman
I CONCUR:
D. J. Kozak
Assistant Vice President Labor Relations