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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 5 of 217 Section 17. Unless s taffing and workload do not permit: At facilities with one hundred (100) or less Union members, one (1) Union delegate shall be permitted to take annual leave to attend (including travel time) the Union's annual convention. At facilities with more than on e hundred (100) members, one (1) additional delegate shall be granted such leave for each additional fifty (50) Union members. The Agency may grant LWOP to attend the Union's convention. Leave requests under this Section shall be submitted prior to the le ave bidding process identified in Article 24 for the upcoming year. Any questions regarding the number of Union members shall be resolved using dues withholding figures pursuant to Article 11 of this Agreement. The granting of this time shall take preceden ce over the granting of requested leave to other bargaining unit employees for the date(s) indicated. In the event the Union changes delegate(s), the time granted under this Section may be transferred to the new delegate(s) within the facility. Section 18 . The amounts of official time contained in this Agreement may not be increased or decreased. Exceptions to this Section may be agreed to only by the Parties at the national level. Section 19. The Agency recognizes the right of a duly recognized Union rep resentative to express the views of the Union, provided those views are identified as Union views. ARTICLE 3 RIGHTS OF UNION OFFICIALS Section 1. National and regional Union officials who are elected or appointed to serve in an official capacity as a repr esentative of the Union shall be granted, upon request, LWOP concurrent and consistent with elected terms of office or appointment. Each request by an employee for such LWOP shall be for a specified period and shall be certified by the National Office of t he Union. Section 2. Each Regional Vice President (RVP) of the Union shall be granted eighty (80) hours of official time per pay period to perform the representational duties of the office. The official time granted each RVP under this Section 2 may be del egated only to the Alternate Regional Vice President and to those other Union representatives within the same region who have been designated and identified in accordance with Section 3 of this Article. The time granted under this Section 2 may not be dele gated to other Union representatives. Written notice of delegation of official time granted under this Article shall be made to the ATO Technical Labor Office, via email to 9 - AWA - AHR - OfficialTime@FAA.GOV and shall include: the name of the Union designee an d the number of hours delegated. When the delegation is for a specific date and the need is known and communicated a minimum of eight (8) days in advance, the delegation shall be approved as specifically requested. If the delegation is made with less than eight (8) days notice it shall be approved absent an emergency or other special circumstance. Section 3. The Union shall be granted the following amounts of official time for use by Alternate Regional Vice Presidents (ARVP): a. Three (3) Regions will receive forty (40) hours per pay period.

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