GUARANTEED EXTRA BOARDS
A. Yard Extra Boards
Guaranteed yard extra boards shall be established at
Salt Lake City, Ogden (OUR&D), Pocatello, and Nampa. All
current rules and practices governing the handling of yard extra
boards are eliminated and the following shall govern:
(1) The "work week" for employes on the extra boards shall
be a period of seven days starting with Monday.
(2) Trainmen assigned to this extra board established
under this agreement shall be guaranteed the equivalent of
eleven (11) basic days in a payroll period subject to the
following conditions:
(a) The Carrier shall have the unqualified right to
determine the number of employes that are to be maintained
on such extra board, provided, however, that when the extra
board is increased, such adjustment will be made in
accordance with the rules and provisions of the effective
Trainmen's Agreement. : -,
(b) Trainmen who are ready and available for service
the entire payroll period and who do not lay off of their
, own accord during the payroll period shall qualify for the
guarantee provided under Section (2) of this Agreement.
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(c) The guarantee of eleven (11) minimum basic days'
pay will be reduced by one reduced day for each 24 hour
period and/of portion thereof that such assigned employe is
not available for service during -the payroll period.
NOTE 1: A reduced day is a fraction of the number
of days in a pay period. For example, in
a 15 day period, one (1) reduced day would
be l/15th reduction of the eleven (11) basic
days for the pay period.
NOTE 2: The term "payroll period" as used in this
agreement, shall be understood to mean
a period:
FROM THE TO THE
First of the month Fifteenth day of the
same month.
and
Sixteenth day Last day
of the month of the same month
(d) Trainmen assigned to the Yard Guaranteed
Extra Board who are used in emergency road service will not
have their first two (2) trips in emergency road service
used as an offset of their guarantee.
(e) This agreement shall remain if effect subject to
cancellation by either party by a written notice served
\^ upon the thirty (30) days in advance.
B. Conductor and Brakemen Guaranteed Extra Boards
(1) (a) A separate road guaranteed extra board for
Conductors will be established at Salt Lake City, Utah. Road
Non-Guaranteed Conductor Extra Boards will continue to operate
as presently in effect, at Pocatello and Nampa. Separate road
guaranteed extra boards for Brakemen will be established at Salt
Lake City, Pocatello and Nampa.
(b) Trainmen assigned to these Boards who were hired
prior to November 1, 1985, will be guaranteed 20 basic days per
pay period. Those trainmen hired after October 31, 1985 will be
guaranteed 18 basic days per pay period.
(2) The rate of pay on the extra boards will be the
Conductor's or Brakeman's (whichever is applicable) local rate
of pay, 1-80 car count. Payment of the guarantee, including
adjustments, will be made no later than the payroll half
following the payroll half in which the guarantee payment was
incurred.
^-^ (3) (a) All earnings received by a trainman assigned to
a Guaranteed Extra Board under this Section B will be used in
computing the trainman's guarantee. Such computations will not
include non-taxable income such as meal, lodging and personal
auto mileage payments. Penalty claim payments, if any, will be
paid in addition to any guarantee payments and there shall be no
offset.
Q. Will the Productivity Fund payments under
Article VII be used as an offset for any
guarantee provisions?
A. No.
(b) A Guaranteed Extra Board trainman standing first
out who lays off, lays off on call, misses call or is not
available for call will have the guarantee reduced by the amount
they would have earned had they not been unavailable, with a
minimum reduction of one guaranteed day.
(c) Only the first three (3) trainmen who miss a call
as a result of the first Guaranteed Extra Board trainman laying
off on call, missing call or not available for call will have
their Guarantee reduced in the same manner as Item (b) above.
However, any trainman on the Guaranteed Extra Board who lays off
when other than first out will have his/her guarantee reduced by
one (1) reduced day for each 24-hour period or portion thereof.
(d) A trainman assigned to a Guaranteed Extra Board
who is unavailable as a result of (b) or (c), above, for more
than two (2) occurrences per pay period or who is unavailable,
for more than seventy-two (72) combined hours per pay period
will forfeit any guarantee for that pay period.
NOTE 1: Local Chairmen who lay off union business
will not be subject to (d), but will be
subject to (b) and (c), of this Section 3.
The guarantee reductions will not apply for
absences due to Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave Days,
Vacations, Rules Classes, Jury Duty, Physical Examinations or
other instances where the trainman is held at the instruction of
the Carrier.
Q. How will each day a trainman is marked up on
a Guaranteed Extra Board be applied for
qualifying for vacation?
A. The amount of make up guarantee will be
converted to equivalent days in miles or
hours as contemplated by the 1949 National
Vacation Agreement and that number of days
in addition to time worked, will be
considered as qualifying days for vacation
purposes.
NOTE 2: Absences as defined in Item (e) above will
count as days on the Board for guarantee
purposes. Compensation received for these
days will be used as an offset to any
guarantee that may be due.
(4) (a) The Carrier shall regulate the number of
trainmen on the Guaranteed Extra Boards but the Carrier shall
ensure that a sufficient number of trainmen are on each board to
maintain the average pay period between 18 and 22 basic days for
trainmen hired prior to November 1, 1985 and 16 to 20 basic days
for trainmen hired after October 31, 1985. The Reserve Board as
provided for in Article V of this Agreement will not be used to
supplement the Guaranteed Extra Boards.
NOTE: If the guarantee payments are too high or
too low, the parties may adjust the payments in
either direction by mutual consent
(b) Trainmen recalled from furlough status or used in
emergency service while furloughed will result in the creation
of a position(s) on the board for a period of seven (7) days.
EXAMPLE: The senior furloughed trainman is
unavailable to be used in emergency service
on day 1. A junior furloughed trainman is
used and an extra board position is created
for seven (7) days. The senior furloughed
trainman has the right -to fill the position
for the remaining days.
Q. What is the calculation of the guarantee pay
for the senior furloughed trainman when
recalled to the board?
A. The furloughed employe is a post October 31,
1985 hire, which entitles this employe to an
eighteen (18) day guarantee at the local
rate for a fifteen (15) day pay period.
Assume the employe is recalled to the board
on June 12 and does not work the entire
first pay period which would allow this
employe four (4) guarantee days.
Calculation
18 days at the local rate - divided by 15
days which is the number of days in the pay
period, and then multiply that daily rate by
the four days of guarantee, i. e.
$104. 00 (local rate)
x 18 days or guarantee per pay period
$1, 872. 00
divided by 15 days in pay period
§124. 80 daily guarantee
x 4 days of guarantee •'":..,
$499. 20 guarantee
(c) After 120 days from the effective date of this
Agreement, the parties will make the initial adjustments in the
Guaranteed Extra Boards. Adjustments may be made earlier by
mutual agreement. If a Guaranteed Extra Board is reduced on the
initial adjustment, the number of Guaranteed Extra Board
positions that are reduced will be added to the Reserve Board
(Article V) at the location of the Guaranteed Extra Board. The
minimum number of Reserve Board positions will increase
accordingly. • •
Q. In the application of Article IV, Guaranteed
Extra Board, if the Parties reduce a Board
at the initial 120 day adjustment, would
those positions reduced from the Guaranteed
Extra Board be added to the Reserve Board?
A. Yes.
Q. After the initial 120 day adjustment, will the
number of available Reserve Board
positions ever fall below this number?
A. No.
t|. If the Carrier adjusts the Guaranteed Extra
Board after the initial 120 day adjustment,
is the Reserve Board adjusted accordingly?
A. No.
(d) When the extra board calls for a reduction, under
the provisions set forth in this Article, the senior trainman
with a request on file will be reduced first and given
displacement rights. If sufficient senior trainmen
do not have a request on file, sufficient junior trainmen will
be reduced to properly regulate the extra board.
(e) Senior protected trainmen cannot be forced from
blankable positions to the Guaranteed Extra Board if to do so
would increase the board beyond the regulating factors set
forth in Section A(a) of this Article.
(f) Local Chairmen and Labor Relations
Representatives will meet, if requested by either party, after
the Guaranteed Extra Boards have been placed into operation to
discuss all problems and will work to resolve any problem that
may exist.
(5) (a) The Conductor and Brakemen Guaranteed
Extra Boards will remain in effect for a period of 180 days
following the effective date of this Agreement. Thereafter, the
Conductor and/or any of the Brakemen Guaranteed Extra Boards may
be cancelled upon thirty (30) days written notice by the General
Chairman or Director Labor Relations. If cancelled, the
existing rules applicable to the extra board prior to this
Agreement, will govern the handling of the extra board.
(b) The current Non-Guaranteed Conductor Extra Boards
at Pocatello and Nampa can be established as Guaranteed Boards
under the conditions set forth in this Agreement through written
concurrence between Labor Relations and the. General Chairman.
If such Board(s) is established as Guaranteed, either Party
thereafter will have the right to subsequently cancel such
Guarantee Board(s) in the same thirty (30) day written advance
manner as provided in Item (a) above.