Switching Hormel
Plant,
Fremont
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
between the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
CHICAGO £ NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON * QUINCY RAILROAD
COMPANY
and
EMPLOYES OF SAID CARRIERS
REPRESENTED BY
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE
ENGINEERS
BROTHERHOOD
OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
AND ENGINEMEN
ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN
It is agreed that all switching incidental to the
operation of
the George A. Hormel Packing Plant at Fremont, Nebraska, shall
be performed on an alternating basis by employes of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, the Union Pacific Rail-
road
Company and the
Chicago & North
Western Railway Company.
1. Employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company shall begin the alternating
operations effective on the
date the additional Packing Plant is placed in operation or on
the elective date of the operating contract
between the rail-
roads parties hereto, whichever first occurs. Employes of the
Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company to continue
this operation for 14 consecutive months; thereupon the Chicago
&
North Western
Railway Company employes
shall perform
the joint service for a period of 31 consecutive months: follow-
ing the expiration of the period allotted to the Chicago & North
Western Railway Company, employes of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company shall perform said joint switching service for a
period of 11 consecutive months; the
rotation to continue on
this basis thereafter.
2 The employes of
the servicing company shall be required
to perform all intra-plant switching in the interest of the three
participating railroads and they shall receive and deliver can in
the account of the other two railroads on tracks designated for
that purpose.
3. As Exhibit 1, there
is annexed hereto, and made a part
hereof, sketch of the tracks which shall hereafter be considered
joint tracks for purposes of this agreement The term "joint"
tracks is intended to mean tracks that will
be used by em-
ployes of the servicing company in the performance of joint
service for the Packing Plant.
4.
The execution of this agreement shall have no bearing
on
the disposition of the respective contentions or the Order
of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood pi Railroad Trainmen
and the Chicago & North Western Railway
Company, con-
cerning the question as to whether the Packing Plant at Fre-
mont, Nebraska is within or without established switching
limits.
This
agreement shall become effective in the manner outlined
In Section 1 hereof, and shall continue in effect thereafter subject
to the procedural provisions of the amended Railway Labor Act.
For purposes of this provision, each organization
shall be con-
sidered a separate party.
Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th day of
October. 1949.