MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

 

(Footwear)

 

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

 

(S) J. J. P______________________________

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