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AGREEMENT
Between
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY — EASTERN DISTRICT
And
BRAKEMEN, TOWERMEN, AND TRAIN BAGGAGEMEN
Represented by
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN
Advancing and Deferring Vacation Periods

After official vacation schedules have been prepared in accordance with agreements dated December 30, 1964, brakemen, yardmen, and train baggagemen qualified to receive one, two, three, or four weeks’ vacation under the agreement effective January 1, 1965, who are working at points where extra boards are maintained, may advance or defer vacation periods subject to the following:

  1. A brakeman or train baggageman may advance his vacation period to commence on a day specified in Paragraphs 7 and 9 of the respective agreements dated December 30, 1964.
  2. A yardman may advance his vacation period to commence on a day specified in Paragraph 8 of the agreement dated December 30, 1964, as revised by agreement dated March 25, 1965, or defer his vacation period to commence on the day following his designated days off.

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  1. Vacation periods advanced or deferred under Paragraphs 1 and 2 hereof must be for not less than the following number of consecutive days:
Vacation Period Consecutive Days
One week Seven (7) days
Two weeks Fourteen (14) days
Three weeks Twenty-one (21) days
Four weeks Twenty-eight (28) days
  1. A brakeman, yardman, or train baggageman who elects to advance or defer vacation periods or portions thereof must make written application to the crew dispatcher or other designated representative of the Company and receive approval from such representative to advance or defer his vacation periods.
  2. When the complete vacation period for any brakeman, yardman, or train baggageman has been advanced as herein provided, the vacation period of another brakeman, yardman or train baggageman may be deferred to the period in which the advanced brakeman, yardman or train baggageman was scheduled to take his vacation, provided notification of such deferment is submitted by the brakeman, yardman or train baggageman to the crew dispatcher or other designated representative of the Company at least five days in advance of the date such employe is scheduled for his vacation on the official vacation schedule. Only one such deferment will be granted when a vacation period is advanced.
  3. Vacation periods will not be deferred where the vacation cannot be completed during the calendar year.
  4. Splitting
    1. Brakemen, yardmen and train baggagemen who are qualified for a vacation of two, three or four weeks with pay under the provisions of the Vacation Agreement of April 29, 1949, as amended by the Vacation Agreements of December 16, 1953 and November 20, 1964, will, upon written request to the officer in charge, and subject to his approval and the availability of extra employes to provide relief, be permitted to take their vacations in installments as follows:
      1. Brakemen, yardmen and train baggagemen who are qualified for a two weeks vacation may take their vacation in two installments of one week each.
      2. Brakemen, yardmen and train baggagemen who are qualified for a three weeks vacation may take their vacation in two installments of one week and two weeks or vice versa, or in three installments of one week each.
      3. Brakemen, yardmen and train baggagemen who are qualified for a four week vacation may take their vacation in four installments of one week each or combinations of one week, two weeks and/or three week installments not to exceed a total of four weeks vacation, and provided extra brakemen, yardmen or train baggagemen are available for relief.
      4. Vacations taken in installments in accordance with subsections (a), (b) or (c) of this Section B must be taken in advance of the individual employe’s scheduled vacation period as established by the provisions of the December 30, 1964 agreements.
      5. Vacation periods may not be deferred, except as provided in Section A.
      6. When a portion of the employe’s vacation has been taken in installments under paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this section and when portions of an employe’s vacation have been advanced in accordance with Section A of this agreement, all remaining portions of the employe’s vacation must be commenced on the first date set in the original vacation schedule, except as provided in subsection 2(a) of this section.
      1. Employes who, because of preference seniority, have been scheduled and assigned a vacation period on the official vacation schedule for the last four weeks in December and who advance only a portion of their vacation (one, two or three weeks as the case may be) under the terms of Sections A and B of this agreement, will commence and complete the remaining portion of their scheduled vacation in the month of December. The final or last two or three weeks of December, as may be the case, will be reserved to such seniority employes. This exception shall not apply to any other employes nor to any other vacation period in the calendar year.
  1. The Company shall assume no additional expense in granting vacations in installments under this agreement.
  2. Subject to the provisions of subsections 1(a) and 2(b) of Section 3 of this agreement, employes working at outside points where extra boards are not maintained shall be privileged to take their vacations in installments; provided, however, that where deadheading is involved the following regulations shall apply:
    1. Deadhead payments under this split vacation arrangement shall be limited to one round trip and such payments shall be allocated as follows:
      1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, the first relief employe to deadhead to the outside point to protect the first installment of a vacation will be allowed deadhead pay to the outside point. Deadhead trips of other employes to an outside point to protect either the second, third or fourth installment of a vacation shall not be paid for.
      2. The last relief employe to return from an outside point after the last installment of a vacation has been taken will be allowed deadhead pay from the outside point to the point where the extra list is maintained.
      3. Intervening deadhead trips to and from outside points which occur between the first and last installment under this split vacation arrangement shall not be paid for.
    2. Deadhead movements under this vacation agreement shall not be paid for if they are otherwise not payable, such as deadhead movements occasioned by and coupled to mileage regulations.
    1. Employes who have made written application to take their vacations in installments and have received permission to do so will submit time return to the timekeeper for payment of that portion of their vacation allowance in proportion to the amount of the vacation taken.
    2. Employes at outside points who elect to take their vacations in installments shall advise crew dispatchers, timekeepers and others of the precise conditions for which such vacations are requested. Time allowances for deadhead trips will not be made until all supporting data has been furnished and checked.
    3. An employe who has been absent from service on account of sickness or for personal reasons not less than seven (7), fourteen (14), twenty-one (21) and/or twenty-eight (28) days and who desires to allocate such absences against any vacation periods due must, at the time he returns to service, notify the crew dispatcher or other designated representative of the Carrier that such absences from service are to be charged against vacation periods as may be due.
  1. Not a Guarantee
    1. It is understood that the schedule of vacations on the official vacation schedule establishes no guarantee that any employe shall be released for vacation at the time scheduled. It is recognized that the exigencies of the service create practical difficulties in providing vacations to all employes. The right of the Company to withhold employes from scheduled vacations is recognized and, where that is done, the employe will be allowed pay in lieu thereof, as provided in Section 1 of the National Vacation Agreement effective July 1, 1949, as amended by Article 5 of the Agreement dated December 16, 1953.

Effective Date
Dated at Omaha, Nebraska this 23rd day of December,1965.

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN:
/s/ C. B. Fanning
Acting General Chairman,
Assistant to Vice President – Labor Relations

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:
/s/ N. T. DeLong
Acting General Chairman,
Assistant to Vice President – Labor Relations