Q: Why does vacation not accrue based on hours worked – such as a proration of the accrual if we don’t make the 480?
Our initial goal was to eliminate the 480 requirements. The Company was adamantly opposed.
We then tried to prorate the accrual – again management refused to entertain this concept. The Negotiating Committee continued to push hard to achieve improvements on the vacation 480. We were able to achieve an improvement of ¼ vacation entitlement applying toward the vacation 480 for the following year.