Transportation
between
Hastings
and
Grand Island
A G R E E M E N T
between the
UNION
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
and
ORDER
OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN
Item 1 of the Pooling Caboose Agreement
dated January 24,
1948 provides in part:
"At points where rooming houses are
not maintained by the
Company, the Company will prior to the
pooling of cabooses in
territory where not now pooled determine that eating and sleep-
ing accommodations are available for
employes affected"
It is agreed
that if and when cabooses are pooled through
Hastings, Nebraska, and accommodations are not available
as con-
templated by Item 1 of agreement of January 24, 1948,
above
quoted, transportation to Grand Island will be provided
by the
Company
either on freight trains, passenger trains or by bus or
auto mobile to crews in pool freight or
unassigned service after
release at Hastings on trips from North Platte and likewise to
Hastings for crews called at Grand Island for trip Hastings to
North Platte.
Where, due to storms, floods, etc., it is
not possible to trans-
port the crews from Hastings to Grand Island, the crews arriving
Hastings will remain at Hastings and take
their turn out on
trains operated out of that point to
North Platte, In such in-
stances, Hastings will be considered
the away-from-home-terminal
and such crews will be compensated in accordance with the pro-
visions of the held-away-from-home-terminal
role. Under these
conditions, crews at Hastings or Grand Island will not be con-
sidered run-around.
Crews run from North Platte to Hastings and
transported to
Grand Island will take their turn on the board at Grand Island,
if available, as per arrival at Hastings.
No
compensation will be allowed crews transported by the
Company
from Hastings to Grand Island, or Grand Island to
Hastings.
Crews will be called at Grand Island, as
nearly is practical.
two hours prior to time required to report for duty at Hastings.
This agreement will automatically terminate when
accommoca
tions as contemplated by Item 1 of
agreement of January 24, 1948,
above quoted, are available.
FOR
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY: !
A. E. STODDARD j
General
Manager, Eastern Dist. ;
FOR
THE EMPLOYES:
A. L, MOORE
General Chairman, ORC
A. D. HOMAN
General Chairman, BofRT
Omaha* Nebraska,
February 26, 1948.