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

Effective January 1, 1969, the agreement of December 23, 1965, entitled “Advancing and Deferring Vacation Periods,” is modified to incorporate the following provisions:

  1. All or any portion of an employe’s vacation may be advanced or deferred subject to manpower and operational requirements. In the event several employes wish to advance or defer their vacations to the same period, seniority will prevail.
  2. When a portion of a vacation is advanced or deferred the employe will specify what date he will commence the vacation remaining during the originally scheduled period.

    3. Example: An employe with two weeks vacation is scheduled for the period July 1–14. He wishes to advance one week of it to June 1–7. He must specify which week will remain as originally scheduled—the week July 1–7 or the week July 8–14.

  3. It will no longer be necessary that an employe who has advanced or deferred his vacation be frozen to any portion of his originally scheduled vacation period.
  4. An employe may take as many splits as he has weeks of vacation.
  5. Gaps created by employes advancing or deferring vacations will be filled by the senior employe filing written application therefor.
  6. Employes who desire to advance or defer all, or a portion of, their vacation period must make written application at least seven (7) days in advance of the desired change. This includes yard service employes adjusting their vacation periods to commence on the day following their designated days off.

All portions of the agreement of December 23, 1965, in conflict with the above are modified accordingly.

This agreement shall be effective January 1, 1969, subject to the condition that it shall terminate ten (10) days after written notice is served by either of the parties upon the other.

Dated this 26th day of November, 1963.

FOR THE EMPLOYEES:
General Chairman, B of RT

FOR UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:
Asst. to Vice President—Personnel