ARTICLE IX. 

Special Allowances 

Section 1.

The officers, agents and representatives of this organization cannot work regularly scheduled hours as do the members they represent nor do they receive premium or overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of eight hours in any one day or forty hours in any one week.  Their duties frequently require them to work both day and night and to remain on call twenty-four hours a day. They often travel to various parts of the United States in the performance of their duties and are away from their homes and families for varying periods of time.  These things cannot be avoided if the affairs of the organization are to be conducted with dispatch and success.

Section 2.

Because of the circumstances described in Article IX, Section 1, above, and in addition to allowances for expenses directly incurred in handling our Union business and affairs, they are expressly authorized and empowered to expend from our funds reasonable amounts for the following purposes.

(a)   To take periodic days off for rest and relaxation while on out-of-town trips, either in the city where working or in other areas;

(b)   To make personal long-distance telephone calls while in or out-of-town;

(c)   To pay for the meals of themselves and others whenever they work after the evening dinner hour in their home area;

(d)   To entertain for the purpose of establishing and maintaining contacts with persons, organizations and institutions which tend to foster the good and welfare of this organization.

Section 3.

They are likewise authorized and empowered to use any automobile furnished them for their work during hours when they are not working, except that they shall personally pay for gasoline and oil used on trips exceeding one hundred miles.