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The General and District Chairmen or his designated representative of the Union signatory hereto will be provided with a head-end pass to ride all NJT Rail equipment. Crew boards will be maintained in the same location and the same manner as maintained effective December 31, 1982. RULE
51 - ENGINE CHANGE SERVICE It shall be the work of Engineers to perform any or all of the following service in connection with the movement of engines coupled in multiple and/or not coupled in multiple: (1.) Move engines between any points in a terminal. (2.) Deliver and/or pick up engine(s) within a terminal.
(3.) Deliver and/or pick up engine(s) outside a terminal. (4.) Couple engines to trains and make necessary tests. RULE
52 - PROMOTION TO SUPERVISORY OR OFFICIAL POSITIONS Engineers in service will be given consideration for supervisory or official positions as opportunity may offer. (a.) Effective July 1, 1983, NJT Rail shall provide an Eye Care Program during the term of this agreement. The coverage shall provide for a $25.00 payment for regular prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses or $30.00 for bifocal glasses or more complex prescriptions. Included are all employees and their eligible dependents. The extension of benefits to dependents shall be effective only after the employee has been continuously employed for a minimum of sixty (60) days. (b.) Employees and eligible dependents as defined above shall be eligible for a maximum payment of $25.00 or the cost, whichever is less, of an eye examination by an Ophthalmologist or an Optometrist. (c.) Effective January 1, 1989, each eligible employee and dependent will receive only one (1) payment for glasses and one (1) payment for examination every two (2) years. Submission of receipts is required of the employees in order to receive payments.
If any Rule or provision of this Agreement is at any time determined to be in conflict with any law, such Rule or provision will continue in effect only to the extent permitted by law. If any Rule of provision of this Agreement is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect or impair any other term or provision of this Agreement. (a.) Effective July 1, 1989, there shall be established a Section 401(a), Money Purchase Pension Plan (a summary of which is appended hereto as Appendix 5). In addition, the parties agree that as soon as administratively possible, a Section 457, Employee Savings Plan, will be implemented, the details of which will be worked out by Counsel for both parties. In the event of any inconsistencies between the attached summary and the plan documents, the plan documents shall govern. (b.) There will be created a Pension Advisory Committee composed of representatives of the B of LE. The purpose of the Pension Advisory Committee is to provide non-binding advice to the NJTRO Board regarding the Section 401(a) and Section 457 Plans established pursuant to this Agreement. ·
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Appendix 5 - Money Purchase Pension Plan, page 71. · See Appendix 12 - Conrail Supplemental Pension Plan, page 87. (a.) NJT Rail and the Union acknowledge this Agreement, together with its Appendices, to be their complete Agreement inclusive of all negotiable issues whether or not discussed. (b.) All rules, agreements, practices or understandings, whether written or unwritten, however established, that were in effect or existed prior to the effective date of this Agreement are terminated, and hereafter only this Agreement and its terms shall control, notwithstanding the erroneous continuation of practices inconsistent therewith.
(c.) The parties will recognize the need for cooperation in and support of changes in operating practices and procedures which would result in increasing productivity to the greatest extent possible in order to provide essential and economical commuter rail service and to enhance public support for commuter rail service. (a.) This Agreement, together with its Appendices, shall comprise the collective bargaining agreement between NJT Rail and its employees represented by the Union. It shall become effective July 1, 1989 and shall remain in effect until June 30, 1992 and thereafter, until changed in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended. (b.) In the event NJ Transit Rail executes an agreement for the period commencing July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992 with any of the other Unions representing its employees that contains improvements in the areas of general wage increases, basis of pay, vacation, holidays, pension, health insurance, bereavement leave or jury duty that are greater than those set forth in this Agreement, it is agreed that such improvements will be incorporated into the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Union's Agreement with NJ Transit Rail, unless such improvement(s) was made in consideration for a modification(s) in the Company's agreement with the other Union which benefits NJ Transit Rail. (c.) There shall be a moratorium on the serving of Section 6 notices through April 1, 1992, any changes not to become effective before July 1, 1992. Signed: February 7, 1989 For Brotherhood of For New Jersey Transit Locomotive Engineers: Rail Operations, Inc. (original signed by:) (original signed by:) E. Dubroski George Warrington Vice President Vice President & General Manager (original signed by:) (original signed by:) T. Abbott D. C. Agrawal General Chairman Special Assistant to Brotherhood of Locomotive Vice President & General Engineers Manager (original signed by:) Patricia Sebron Assistant Vice President Human Resources
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