ITEM - 92(u)

 

A G R E E M E N T between

 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY- EASTERN DISTRICT

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UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION (C)&(T)

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CONSOLIDATION OF CONDUCTORS' AND BRAKEMEN'S

SENIORITY DISTRICTS, CHEYENNE-LARAMIE AND

BRANCHES, AND LARAMIE-RAWLINS AND BRANCHES

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Effective 12:01 AM September 15, 1972, Conductors' and Brakemen's Seniority Districts Cheyenne-Laramie and Laramie-Rawlins shall be consolidated and a new Seniority District encompassing the territory Cheyenne-Rawlins shall be created, subject to the conditions set forth below:

1. Employes holding seniority dates as brakemen or dual rights employes on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie as of the close of the day on September 14, 1972 will retain prior rights in such service on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie according to their then existing relative seniority status, and will be given a seniority date as brakemen on the territory Laramie-Rawlins as of 12:01 AM, September 15, 1972 following the junior brakeman on the territory LaramieRawlins in the same relative standing as on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie.

2. Employes holding seniority dates as brakemen or dual rights employes on the territory Laramie-Rawlins as of the close of the day on September 14, 1972 will retain prior rights in such service on the territory Laramie-Rawlins according to their then existing relative seniority status, and will be given a seniority date as brakemen on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie as of 12:01 AM, September 15, 1972 following the junior brakeman on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie in the same relative standing as on the territory Laramie-Rawlins.

3. Employes holding seniority dates as conductors on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie as of the close of the day on September 14, 1972 will retain prior rights in such service on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie according to their then existing relative seniority status, and will be given a seniority date as conductors on the territory Laramie-Rawlins as of 12:01 All, September 15, 1972 following the junior conductors on the territory Laramie-Rawlins in the same relative standing as on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie.

 

4. Employes holding seniority dates as conductors on the territory Laramie-Rawlins as of the close of the day on September 14, 1972 will retain prior rights in such service on the territory Laramie-Rawlins according to their then existing relative seniority status, and will be given a seniority date as conductors on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie. as of 12:01 AM, September 15, 1972 following the junior conductor on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie in the same relative standing as on the territory Laramie-Rawlins.

5. Dual rights men hired on and after 12:01 AM September 15, 1972 on the Wyoming Division who elect to hold road rights on the territory Cheyenne-Rawlins will be accorded a seniority date as brakeman covering the entire territory Cheyenne-Rawlins.

6. On and after 12:01 All September 15, 1972 a consolidated seniority roster will be maintained for the seniority district encompassing the territory Cheyenne-Rawlins.

7. Employes who on September 14, 1972 hold seniority as brakemen on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie or Laramie-Rawlins who are promoted to conductor on or after September 15, 1972 will be considered prior rights conductors under the provisions of this agreement.

8. Employes holding seniority as brakeman and/or conductor on the territory Cheyenne-Laramie or Laramie-Rawlins who are temporarily suspended, dismissed from service, or on authorized leave on September 14, 1972 shall be accorded a seniority date in the other appropriate territory on their return to service in the same manner as though they had been in service on September 14, 1972.
 

9. Conductors or brakemen holding prior rights on either the territory Cheyenne-Laramie or Laramie-Rawlins may, but shall not be required to, exhaust their seniority on other than the territory whereon they hold prior rights before being furloughed.

10. Conductors holding prior rights on either the territory Cheyenne-Laramie or Laramie_Rawlins may, but shall not-be required' to by virtue of their seniority, accept assignment, other than extra, on that portion of the seniority district where they do not hold prior rights,

Dated at Omaha, Nebraska this 14th day of September, 1972.

FOR THE UNITED               FOR THE UNION PACIFIC

TRANSPORTATION UNION(C)      RAILROAD CO.:

/s/ V. K. Tatman             /s/ J. H. Kenny

General Chairman             Director of

                             Labor Relations

FOR THE UNITED

TRANSPORTATION UNION(T)

/s/ J. R. Dennis

General Chairman

(A-92u-3)