78 National Agreement

ARTICLE III – VACATIONS

Insofar as applicable to employees represented by the United Transportation Union, the Vacation Agreement dated April 29, 19^9, as amended, is further amended effective January 1, 1979, by substituting the following Section 1(c) and 1(d) for the corresponding provisions contained in Section 1 of Article III of the Agreement of January 27, 1972:

  1. Effective January 1, 1979, each employee, subject to the scope of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement, having nine or more years of continuous service with the employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of three weeks with pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the employee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules and during the said nine or more years of continuous service renders service of not less than fourteen hundred forty (1440) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article 3 of Agreement “A” dated September 25, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year I960, in the application of this Section 1(c) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard service employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights shall be computed as 1.6 days, and each basic day in all other services shall be computed as 1.3 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vacations. (This is the equivalent of 100 qualifying days in a calendar year in yard service and 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.) (See NOTE below.) ‘

Beginning with the year I960 on all other carriers, in the application of this Section l(c) each basic day in all classes of service shall be computed as 1.3 days for purposes of determining qualifications for vacation. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

  1. Effective January 1, 1979, each employee, subject to the scope of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement, having eighteen or more years of continuous service with the employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of four weeks with pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the employee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules and during the said eighteen or more years of continuous service renders service of not less than twenty-eight hundred eighty (2880) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article 3 of Agreement “A” dated September 25, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year I960, in the application of this Section l(d) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard service employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights shall be computed as 1.6 days, and each basic day in all other services shall be computed as 1.3 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vacations. (This is the equivalent of 100 qualifying days in a calendar year in yard service and 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.) (See NOTE below.)

Beginning with the year I960 on all other carriers, in the application of this Section l(d) each basic day in all classes of service shall be computed as 1.3 days for purposes of determining qualifications for vacation. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

(The NOTE referred to in Sections 1(c) and 1 d) above reads as follows:

“NOTE: – In the application of Section 1(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), qualifying years accumulated, also qualifying requirements for years accumulated, prior to the effective date of the respective provisions hereof, for extended vacations shall not be changed.”)