ITEM - A

AGREEMENT

between the

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY-EASTERN DISTRICT

and the
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN

IT IS AGREED:

Section 1. Effective March 4, 1968, the following
rules will be incorporated into the basic road agreement:

(a) "Crew Consist-Freight Service. A crew in all
classes of road service will consist of not
less than two brakemen. "

(b) "Crew Consist-Passenger Service. In passenger
service, a crew will consist, of not less than
two brakemen. "

Section 2. Except as hereinafter provided, crews
in yard service will be operated in accordance with Rule 11
of the Yardmen's Agreement effective September 1, 1953, read-
ing as follows:

"Rule 11. Consist of Crew. A crew in all
yards shall consist of not less than one
foreman and two helpers. A portion of the
crew shall not be required to perform other
service necessitating the remaining members
to work snort handed. "

Section 3. Subject to the protective provisions
of Section 6 hereof, the minimum crew consist as provided in
Rule 11 of the Yardmen's Agreement effective September 1,
1953, may be reduced by one helper on the following yard
crew assignments regardless of whether the assignment works
five, six or seven days:

One yard assignment at Beatrice, Nebraska
One yard assignment at Kearney, Nebraska
One yard assignment at Sterling, Colorado
One yard assignment at Evanston; Wyoming
One yard assignment at Ellis, Kansas

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NOTE 1: At times when a single yard assignment is
maintained in any of the yards listed above, the
engine may be worked with a foreman and one helper.

NOTE 2: At times when more than one assignment is
maintained in any of the yards listed above, the
first assignment starting work after midnight will
be the assignment to be worked with a foreman and
one helper. The other assignment or assignments
will be worked with not less than a foreman and two
helpers.

Section 4. Subject to the protective provisions
of Section 6 hereof, the minimum crew consist as provided
for in rules set forth in Section 1(a) hereof may be reduced
by one brakeman on the following road assignments:

One crew assignment on the Columbus-Albion-Spalding Local
One crew assignment on the Coalmont Local (Laramie-Walden)

Section 5. Subject to the protective provisions
of Section 6 hereof, the position of third brakeman may be
eliminated from the following road assignments:

Council Bluffs-Grand Island Local

Grand Island-Odessa Local

Cozad Switcher

Lexington Switcher

Park City Local

Kansas City-Lawrence Turnaround

Section 6. (a) Road brakemen and/or yardmen who

established seniority in their respective seniority districts
on or prior to March 1, 1968, shall be known and designated
for the purposes of this agreement as "protected employes. "

(b) A "non-protected employe" for the purposes of
this agreement is a road brakeman-yardman who establishes a
seniority date in his respective seniority district on or
after March 2, 1968.

(e) Except as provided in Paragraph (d) of this
Section 6, protected employes will not be furloughed until
reducible jobs listed in Sections 3, 4 and 5 hereof are filled,

However, no protected employes shall have any right to fill
jobs or positions that the Carrier may discontinue pursuant to
the provisions of this agreement if other employment in
other classes of road or yard service is available to them on
their seniority district.

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(d) A protected employe who stands to be reduced
from the working list at one point in the seniority district
and who signifies in writing that he desires to protect jobs
or positions at all other locations in the seniority district
to which his seniority entitles him will not be furloughed un-
less the reducible positions in Sections 3, 4 and 5 in his
seniority district are filled by senior protected employes.

Section 7. Nothing herein shall be construed as.
limiting or restricting the Carrier's right to establish or
discontinue crew assignments to conform with the needs of the
service in accordance with the applicable rules and agree-
ments.

Section 8. Existing provisions of agreement govern-
ing the conditions under which individual assignments in road
and/or yard service shall be established, discontinued or
maintained, shall be continued in effect without change, in-
cluding the provisions of Article III - "Self-Propelled
Machines" of the National Agreement of June 25, 1964.

Section 9. Nothing in this agreement shall prevent
the Carrier from adding an additional position of road brake-
man or an additional position of yard helper to any assignment
when in its judgment the additional position is deemed neces-
sary.

Section 10. This agreement shall become effective
March 4, 1968, and is in settlement of the dispute growing out
of the crew consist notices served by the Carrier on December
24, 1965 and March 18, 1966, and the promulgation notice issued
February 6, 1968, and shall remain in effect until changed or
modified in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor
Act, as amended.

Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah, this 1st day of

March 1968.

FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF
RAILROAD TRAINMEN:

/s/ J. S. Ferryman_____
General Chairman

FOR THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY:

/s/ J. H. Kenny_______
Assistant to Vice President-
Labor Relations

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APPROVED:

/s/ J. H. Shepherd
Vice President, BofRT