MEMORANDUM OF
AGREEMENT
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between the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
for the territory EASTERN DISTRICT
and the
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION
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HOLDING TURN DURING ABSENCE FOR UNION BUSINESS - ZONE 200
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Section 1. EMPLOYEES ELIGIBLE TO BE ABSENT FOR
UNION BUSINESS
For each UTU local committee on Seniority Zone 200, the UTU
Officials listed below, if working as a Conductor, Brakeman, Yardman and/or
Hostler, shall be entitled to hold their position/turn first-out until they
resume service when it is necessary such officials be absent in order to conduct
union business (local lodge meetings, acting as representative at disciplinary
hearings, and other similar related matters):
A......... Local President
B ......... Local Secretary/Treasurer
C ......... Local Chairman
Section 2. HOLDING TURN FIRST OUT AT HOME
TERMINAL
The above listed union officers, when absent for union
business, if assigned to an extra board or freight pool, will be permitted to
hold their position/turn first out until they resume service. That is, the
position/turn will continue to rotate in the normal order until the UTU Official
returns to service or until the position/turn rotates to first out and then it
will stay first out until the UTU Official returns to service and works.
After the UTU official works a trip from first out position
as prescribed in this Section 2, that individual will be restored to the same
relative standing held at the time of the initial layoff on union business
(placed between the employes the UTU Official was between at the time of the
layoff).
Section 3. MOVING TURN AT AWAY-FROM-HOME TERMINAL
OR HOME TERMINAL
In lieu of the procedures described in Section 2 hereof, a
UTU Official covered by this agreement, if assigned to a freight pool, will be
permitted to move his/her turn forward a sufficient number of turns at the
away-from-home terminal to ensure a return to the home terminal in time for the
required union business. Alternatively, an union official covered by this
agreement will be permitted to move his/her turn either forward or backward at
the home terminal to ensure their availability for the required union business.
The objective of this section is to provide union officers with maximum
flexibility.
NOTE: The official involved must make a choice between use of Section 2 and one of the options in Section 3 for each union business layoff. It will not be permissible to use both sections in connection with any single layoff under this agreement.
Section 4. REDUCTION OF GUARANTEES
It is understood that union business absences will result in
the reduction of any applicable guarantees pursuant to the terms of the
applicable guarantee agreement.
Section 5. TRADING JOBS
The UTU officials identified in Section 1 hereof, if
regularly assigned to yard/road switcher or local service, shall be permitted to
trade assignments to be available for union business if another employe is
willing to trade. The employes involved will trade back to their original
assignments at the conclusion of the union business. Any such temporary trades
will be without additional expense to the Company.
Section 6. NO CLAIMS OR GRIEVANCES
No claims will be filed or progressed as a result of
application of this agreement.
Section 7. EFFECTIVE DATE
This agreement shall become effective October 1, 1995.
Any agreement in conflict with this agreement shall be considered cancelled
and/or superseded as of the effective date of this agreement.
Section 8. CANCELLATION CLAUSE
This agreement may be cancelled at any time by either
party serving a thirty (30) day written notice of cancellation upon the other.
Signed this 19th day of September 1995
FOR THE
UNITED
FOR THE UNION
TRANSPORTATION
UNION:
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:
G. A. Eickmann
A. T. Oliri
General Cnairman,
UTU
Director-Labor Relations
L. A. Lambert
General Director-Labor Relations
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