ARTICLE
V
PRODUCTIVITY
FUND/SPECIAL ALLOWANCE
1.
a. For each trip or tour of
duty operated on the territories comprehended by this agreement with a crew
consisting of Conductor‑Only, Conductor / Brakeman or Foreman / Helper,
the Carrier shall continue to pay into the Employee’s Productivity Fund the
current sum of $55. 00. The pre-existing methodology for calculating reserve
board offsets against productivity fund deposits shall continue to apply for
employees on a Tier II Reserve Board. No productivity fund offsets shall be
taken for employees on a Tier I Reserve Board.
b.
The Productivity Fund payments will continue to be made in accordance with the
basic Crew Consist Agreement.
2.
a. The special allowance payments paid for operations under Modified
Crew Consist (Conductor/ Foreman and Brakeman/ Helper) as well as the new
Conductor‑Only Operation shall be as set forth below:
Modified Crew Consist
Conductor‑Only
Employees
Hired Prior to the
$10.30 1/
$20.60 1/
Applicable Modified Crew
Consist Agreement
Employees
Hired After the
Applicable Modified Crew
Consist Agreement
$8.12 2/
$16.24 2/
1/Rate
as of December 1, 1991, subject to all future wage increases and COLA
adjustments.
2/ Rate as of December 1,
1991, hereafter frozen.
b. These special allowance
payments are only applicable to employees holding seniority on the effective
date of this Agreement on the territories comprehended by this Agreement.