RULE 112. PROMOTION.  (a) A fireman shall be promoted to position of engineer in accordance with the following provision:  

(b) Firemen shall be examined for promotion according to seniority.  

Promotion and establishment of seniority as engineer shall be effective as of the date a fireman is certified as a qualified locomotive engineer.  

(c) All firemen taking and passing the same examination in the same examination class shall be considered as having passed such examination at the same time.  

(d) As soon as a fireman has been awarded a certificate showing him as a qualified engineer, he will be notified in writing by the proper official of "the Company of his seniority date and unless he files a written protest within sixty (60) days against such date, he cannot thereafter have it changed. When his seniority date has been established in accordance with regulations, such date shall be posted and if not challenged in writing within sixty (60) days after such posting, no protest against, such date shall afterwards be heard.  

(e) No fireman shall be deprived of his rights to examination, nor to promotion in accordance with his relative standing on the firemen's roster, because of any failure to take his examination by reason of the requirements of the company's service, by sickness, or by other proper leave of absence; provided, that upon his return he shall be immediately called and required to take examination and accept proper assignment.  

(f) Notice of seniority date established in accordance with Section (b) shall be posted on all bulletin boards on the seniority district.  

(g) No demoted engineer will be permitted to hold a run as fireman on any seniority district while a junior engineer is working on the engineers' extra list, or holding a regular assignment as engineer on such seniority district.  

NOTE.  The provisions of Agreement dated November 8, 1972 shown as Appendix No. 22 shall apply while in effect.  

(h) The provisions of this rule shall not prevent the Committees from negotiating with the management to have discharged engineers re-employed or reinstated to their former seniority.