1981 Footwear Agreement

OPS 63-81

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

In full and complete settlement of the Organization's three formal notices of August 18, 1981 served under provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended,

IT IS AGREED:

Engineers shall meet the following standard for being suitably shod:

Footwear must have a substantial sole of sufficient thickness to resist puncture, a definite heel-instep notch with substantial leather (or leather substitute) upper portion.

The Carrier will not unilaterally, of its own volition, change the foregoing standard insofar as employees represented by the Organization.

Signed at St. Paul, Minnesota, and effective this 5th day of November 1981.

FOR: BURLINGTON NORTHERN
RAILROAD COMPANY (including the former
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company)

By Assistant Vice President Labor Relations

FOR: Engineers represented by the
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS


By W.M. Dunegan
General Chairman

By R.E. Dean
General Chairman