ARTICLE VIII MORATORIUM

It is agreed the Moratorium provision of the October 9/ 1980 Letter of Understanding to the basic Crew Consist Agreement is amended as follows:

The parties to this Agreement shall not serve nor progress, prior to the attrition of all protected employees, any notice or proposal for changing the specific provisions of this Agreement governing pure attrition; protected employees, car limits and train length, special allowance payment to reduced crew members, employee productivity fund deposits and administration thereof. This section will not bar the parties from making changes in the above provisions by mutual agreement.