ARTICLE VII - ROAD/YARD WORK
Section 1
(a) Pursuant to the new road/yard provisions contained in the recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board No. 219, as clarified, a road crew may perform in connection with its own train without additional compensation one move in addition to those permitted by previous agreements at each of the (a) initial terminal, (b) intermediate points, and (c) final terminal. Each of the moves — those previously allowed plus the new ones — may be any one of those prescribed by the Presidential Emergency Board: pick-ups, set-outs, getting or leaving the train on multiple tracks, interchanging with foreign railroads, transferring cars within a switching limit, and spotting and pulling cars at industries.
(b) The switching allowances referred to in Article VIII, Section l(d) of the October 31, 1985 Agreement shall continue with respect to employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Implementing Document precedes October 31, 1985 and such allowances are not subject to general or other wage increases.
(c) The crew of an over-the-road solid run-through train may perform one move as prescribed, in addition to delivering and/or receiving their train in interchange.
Section 2 - Protection
(a) Employees adversely affected by the provisions of Section 1 of this Article shall receive the protection afforded by Article I (except Section 4) of the New York Dock Protective Conditions (Appendix III, P.O. 28250).
(b) Where employees of terminal companies are affected by the additional relief granted carriers by the provisions of Section 1 of this Article, rosters shall be topped and bottomed on the appropriate roster of each owning line, maintaining prior rights. The carrier and employee representatives shall agree upon a method to top and bottom rosters, as provided above, to protect the seniority interests of affected terminal company employees.