Case
No. A-11471
MEDIATION
AGREEMENT
THIS
AGREEMENT, made this 31st day of October, 1985 by and between the participating
carriers listed in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, and
represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee, and the employees of
such carriers shown thereon and represented by the United Transportation Union,
witnesseth:
IT
IS HEREBY AGREED:
ARTICLE
I - GENERAL WAGE INCREASES
Section
1 - First General Wage Increase (for other
than Dining Car Stewards
and Yardmasters)
(a)
Effective November 1, 1985, all standard basic daily rates of pay
(excluding cost-of-living allowance) in effect on October 31, 1985 for employees
represented by the United Transportation Union will be increased by one (1)
percent.
(b)
In computing the increase for enginemen under paragraph (a) above, one
(1) percent shall be applied to the standard basic daily rates of pay applicable
in the following weight-on-drivers brackets, and the amounts so produced shall
be added to each standard basic daily rate of pay:
Passenger
- 600,000 and less than 650,000 pounds
Freight
- 950,000 and less than 1,000,000 pounds
(through
freight rates)
Yard Engineers - Less than 500,000 pounds
Yard Firemen - Less than 500,000 pounds
(separate computation covering five-day
rates and other than five-day rates)
Section
2 - Second General Wage Increase (for other
than Dining Car
Stewards and Yardmasters)
Effective
January 1, 1986, all standard basic daily rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on December 31, 1985 for employees represented by the
United Transportation Union shall be increased by two (2) percent, computed and
applied for enginemen in the manner prescribed in Section I above.
Section
3 - Third General Wage Increase (for other
than Dining Car
Stewards and Yardmasters)
Effective
July 1, 1986, all standard basic daily rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on June 30, 1986 for
Section
4 - Fourth General Wage Increase (for
other than Dining Car
Stewards and Yardmasters)
Effective
January 1, 1987, all standard basic daily rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on December 31, 1986 for employees represented by the
United Transportation Union shall be increased by two and one-quarter (2.25)
percent, computed and applied for enginemen in the manner prescribed in Section
1 above.
Section
5 - Fifth General Wage Increase (for other
than Dining Car
Stewards and Yardmasters)
Effective
July 1, 1987, all standard basic d aily rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on June 30, 1987 for employees represented by the United
Transportation Union shall be increased by one and one-half (1.5) percent,
computed and applied for enginemen in the manner prescribed in Section I above.
Section
6 - Sixth General Wage Increase (for other
than Dining Car, Stewards and
Yardmasters)
Effective
January 1, 1988, all standard basic daily rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on December 31, 1987 for employees represented by the
United Transportation Union shall be increased by two and one-quarter (2.25)
percent, computed and applied for enginemen in the manner prescribed in Section
1 above.
Section
7 - Standard Rates
The
standard basic daily rates of pay (excluding cost-of allowance) produced by
application of the increases provided for in this Article are set forth in
Appendix 1, which is a part of this Agreement.
Section
8 - Application of Wage Increases
(a) Duplicate time payments, including arbitraries and special allowances that
are expressed in time, miles or fixed amounts of money, and mileage rates of pay
for miles run in excess of the number of miles comprising a basic day, will not
be subject to the adjustments provided for in this Article.
(b) In engine service and in
train and yard ground service, miscellaneous rates based upon hourly or daily
rates of pay, as provided in the schedules or wage agreements, shall be adjusted
under this Agreement in the same manner as heretofore increased under previous
wage agreements.
(c) In determining new hourly
rates, fractions of a cent will be disposed of by applying the next higher
quarter of a cent.
(d) Daily earnings minima shall be changed by the amount of the respective daily
adjustments.
(e)
Standard monthly rates and money monthly guarantees in
passenger train service shall be thirty times the new standard daily rates.
Other than standard monthly rates and money monthly guarantees shall be so
adjusted that money differentials existing as of October 31, 1985 shall be
preserved.
(f) Existing monthly rates and money
monthly guarantees applicable in train service other than passenger will be
changed in the same proportion as the daily rate for the class of service
involved is adjusted.
(g)
Existing money differentials above existing standard daily rates shall be
maintained.
(h)
In local freight service, the same differential in excess of through
freight rates shall be maintained.
(i) The differential of $4.00 per basic
day in freight and yard service, and 4~ per mile for miles in excess of the
number of miles encompassed in the basic day in freight service, will be
maintained for engineers working without firemen on locomotives on which under
the former National Diesel Agreement of 1950 firemen would have been required.
(j) In
computing the increases in rates of pay effective November 1, 1985 under Section
I for firemen, conductors, brakemen and flagmen employed in local freight
service, or on road switchers, roustabout runs, mine runs, or in other
miscellaneous service, on runs of miles equal to or less than the number
comprising a basic day, which are therefore paid on a daily basis without a
mileage component, whose rates had been increased by "an additional
$.40" effective July 1, 1968, the one (1) percent increase shall be applied
to daily rates then in effect, exclusive of car scale additives, local freight
differentials, and any other money differential above existing standard daily
rates. For firemen, the rates applicable in the weight-on-drivers bracket
950,000 and less than 1,000,000 pounds shall be utilized in computing the amount
of increase. The same procedure shall be followed in computing the increases
effective January 1, 1986, July 1, 1986, January 1, 1987, July 1, 1987 and
January 1, 1988. The rates produced by application of the standard local freight
differentials and the above referred-to special increase of "an additional
$.40" to standard basic through freight rates of pay are set forth in
Appendix I which is a part of this Agreement.
(k) Other than standard rates:
(i)
Existing basic daily rates of pay other than standard shall be changed,
effective as of the dates specified in Sections I through 6 hereof, by the same
respective percentages as set forth therein, computed and applied in the same
manner as the standard rates were determined.
(ii)
The differential of $4.00 per basic day in freight and yard service, and
$.04 per mile for miles in excess of the number encompassed in the basic day in
freight service, will be maintained for engineers working without firemen on
locomotives on which under the former National Diesel Agreement of 1950 firemen
would have been required.
(iii) Daily
rates of pay, other than standard, of firemen, conductors, brakemen and flagmen
employed in local freight service, or on road switchers, roustabout runs, mine
runs, or in other miscellaneous service, on runs of miles equal to or less than
the number encompassed in the basic day, which are therefore paid on a daily
basis without a mileage component, shall be increased as of the effective dates
specified in Sections I through 6 hereof, by the same respective percentages as
set forth therein, computed and applied in the same manner as provided in
paragraph (k)(i) above.
(L) Wage rates resulting from
the increases provided for in Sections I through 6 and 9 of this Article I, and
in Section 1(d) of Article II, will not be reduced under Article II.
Section
9 - General Wage Increases for Dining
Car Stewards and Yardmasters
(a) Effective
November 1, 1985, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding
cost-of-living allowance) in effect on October 31, 1985, for dining car
stewards and yardmasters represented by the United Transportation
Union shall be increased by one (1) percent.
(b) Effective
January 1, 1986, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living
allowance) in effect on December 31, 1985, for dining car stewards and
yardmasters represented by the United Transportation Union shall be increased by
two (2) percent.
(c)
Effective July 1, 1986, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding
cost-of-living allowance) in effect on June 30, 1986, for dining car stewards
and yardmasters represented by the United Transportation Union shall be
increased by one and one-half 0.5 percent.
(d)
Effective January 1, 1987, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding
cost-of-living allowance) in effect on December 31, 1986, for dining car
stewards and yardmasters represented by the United Transportation Union shall be
increased by an amount equal to two and one-quarter (2.25) percent.
(e)
Effective July 1, 1987, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding
cost-of-living allowance) in effect on June 30, 1987,, for dining car stewards
and yardmasters represented by the United Transportation Union shall be
increased by one and one-half (1.5) percent.
(f) Effective January 1, 1988, all basic monthly rates of pay (excluding cost-of-living allowance) in effect on December 31, 1987, for dining car stewards and yardmasters represented by the United Transportation Union shall be increased by an amount equal to two and one-quarter (2.25) percent.