Article V RELOCATION BENEFITS

Section 1. (a) In lieu of all relocation benefits that may be provided by the Washington Job Agreement and/or any other National Agreement, employees required to change their residence as a result of this Agreement shall receive a lump sum allowance to homeowners of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000). Non-homeowners required to change their residence shall receive a lump sum allowance of Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($5,500) .

(b) On implementation of this Agreement, a "change of residence" shall be considered "required" if the employee is required to report at a point more than thirty (30) normal highway miles from the employee's previous point of employment. The new reporting point must be at a location farther from the employee's residence than the former point of employment. (See Side Letter 28)

EXAMPLE NO. 1; Employee A lives in Centralia and works at Longview. The employee takes a job at Centralia as a result of this Agreement. The employee is not required to change his/her residence because the new reporting point is closer to his/her residence than the former reporting point.

EXAMPLE NO. 2; Employee B lives in Centralia and works the extra board. The employee is assigned to the extra board at Portland as a result of this Agreement. The employee is required to change his/her residence because the new reporting point is more than thirty (30) normal highway miles and is farther from the employee's residence than the former point of employment.

EXAMPLE NO. 3; Employee C lives in Lacey, twenty-nine (29) miles north of Centralia and works at Centralia. The employee is assigned at Tacoma Yard as a result of the implementation of this Agreement. The new reporting point is twenty-eight (28) miles from theemployee's residence. The employee does not qualify because the new reporting point is closer to the employee's residence.

NOTE: An exception to this paragraph (b) is accorded to trainmen who are in assigned through freight service Portland to Seattle who work pool freight service Portland to Seattle or the Guaranteed Extra Board at Portland after implementation. This is due to the change from calling periods to pool freight availability. This is only applicable to employees who are in assigned through freight service on the day of implementation of this Agreement. This exception applies only to employees who live closer to Centralia than Portland.

(c) Employees receiving relocation allowances under this Article V shall not thereafter be permitted to voluntarily exercise seniority to a position which would not have resulted in an allowance for a period of one year. Employees who receive the allowance shall not be allowed to move to a reserve board for a period of one year. (See Side Letter #1)

(d) The relocation allowances will only be available to employees as a result of the assignment of employees on the first day of implementation of this Agreement and will not be available due to changes of assignment that result for any reason after that date except as provided in (e) and (f) below.

(e) At Centralia, only, if the Company reduces forces during the twelve (12) month period following the day of implementation, then a relocation allowance will be available for each employee who is required to change their residence to obtain employment. This shall apply only for the initial reduction for each assignment operating immediately after implementation at Centralia and not for subsequent reductions.

EXAMPLE 1; On the day of implementation, the Company operates three locals at Centralia plus maintains a two (2) employee extra board for a total of eight (8) employees. Due to an industry closure, one local is reduced and one person on the extra board is reduced for a total of three (3) employees. All three employees take positions in Seattle and have lived in Centralia. They would qualify for the allowance. However, if the local is re-established at a later date and then again discontinued, no additional relocation allowance would accrue to any employees.

(f) In view of the joint implementation of modified crew consist and this through freight service, if the carrier recalls an employee from the Reserve Board during the first 120 days of operation, the employee recalled and any employees displaced who are required to change their place of residence in accordance with this Article V will be entitled to the relocation allowances provided.

(g) Employees who are on the Reserve Board shall not be eligible for an allowance under this Article V.

Section 2. Employees who are required to change their place of residence and who actually relocate, shall, upon reporting for and working the assignment at the new location (and provide proof of relocation shall be accorded a special transfer allowance of Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($6,500) in addition to that provided in Section 1. This is provided in consideration of travel and temporary living expenses while undergoing relocation. Employees electing to do so must change their place of residence within one year of the implementation of this agreement. (See Side Letter 28)

Section 3. (a) The term "homeowner" as used in any Section of Article V of this Agreement means either an employee who owns their own home or is under a contract to purchase a home on April 1, 1989.

(b) The location of the home owned or residence where renting on April 1, 1989 shall be the determining factor for application of Article V.

(c) If an employee owns and occupies a mobile home as their residence, it will be treated as a home only if the home is laid on a foundation for the purposes of making the home a fixture on the lot. Mobile homes that are not affixed to a foundation shall not be eligible for the homeowner allowance but shall be eligible for the non-homeowner allowance.