Item 5(a)

AGREEMENT
between the

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
EASTERN DISTRICT

and the
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN

Effective July 1, 1943, engine herders at North Platte,
Cheyenne and Green River, and engine turners at Buford will
receive helper's rate of pay, and all rules of the current
yardmen's schedule effective June 1, 1941 will apply to these
positions, except the following provisions:

Section (b) of Rule 3, and Note thereunder; That part of
Rule 4, reading:

"So far as it is practicable, assignments will be
_ restricted to 8 hours work.ⁿ

Sections (b) to (i), inclusive of Rule 5; and Rule 8.

Employes at terminals named above, assigned to pilot road
locomotives between the roundhouse and passenger station will be
classified as engine herders.

Employes assigned to turning locomotives at Buford will be
classified as engine turners.

It is understood that engine turners at Buford will not be
required to provide themselves with standard railroad watch.

Engine herders at North Platte, Cheyenne and Green River,
and engine turners at Buford, having seniority date prior to
June 1, 1943, will be accorded seniority date of June 1, 1943
as yardman on the division yardinen's seniority roster in the
order of their seniority standing on the division engine herders'
and engine turners' roster, and will be senior to all yardmen
holding seniority date of June 1, 1943. or later.

Effective June 1, 1943, yardmen on the Nebraska Division will
be accorded rights as engine herders at North Platte, and yardmen
on the Wyoming Division, rights as engine herders at Cheyenne a
Green River and as engine turners at Buford, but will be junioi
to all employes holding rights as engine herders and engine
turners prior to June 1, 1943-

Engine herders and engine turners holding seniority date as
such prior to April 1, 193° will retain seniority rights at point
at which seniority date was established.

Regular positions or vacancies as engine turner at Buford •
be bulletined for period of fire days in all yards on the Wyomi
Division, and senior applicant assigned. If no applications arv
received, the Junior yardman on the division will be assigned.Temporary vacancies in position or engine turner at ouiora
will be filled from the Cheyenne yardmen's extra board, and
extra yardaan agreed upon by the Superintendent and Local Chair-
can will be required to fill the temporary vacancy.

This agreement supersedes agreement dated May 14, 1942, anc
shall continue in effect until it is changed in accordance with
-revisions of the Railway Labor Act.

This agreement is made subject to such approval as may be
required by the Chairman of the National Railway Labor Panel,
with whom request for approval will be filed by the Company,
pursuant to Executive Order 9299.

FOR THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:

/s/ F. C. Paulsen

General Manager, Eastern Oist.

FOR THE EMPLOYES:

/s/ Jas. A. Bostic
General Chairman, B.ofR.T.

/s/ R. Lannin

General Secretary, B.ofR.T.

Omaha, Nebraska,
July 2, 1943.