IMPLEMENTATION 

1.             The following schedule shall be followed in implementing this agreement. 

a. Twenty‑five (25) days prior to the effective date of this agreement, the Carrier shall bulletin for ten (10) days to all eligible employees on the territories covered by this agreement, the opportunity to select one of the following options: Regular Assignment, Guaranteed Extra Board, or Reserve Board. 

NOTE:

Employees may not exercise seniority to blankable positions. All brakemen positions in pool freight service and all second brakeman/second helper positions are blankable positions. 

b. Thirteen (13) days prior to the effective date of this agreement, the involved local chairmen and CMS personnel shall meet for three (3) days to review the results of the bulletin process and to make all assignments. 

                 c. For ten (10) days prior to the effective date of this Agreement, employees shall take the necessary action to be in place to perform the required service on the assignment to which assigned an implementation. 

2.             Assignments to the options set forth in 1(a), above, shall be made by seniority preference. It is understood all must‑fill assignments (regular or extra) must be filled initially by eligible employees. After these positions have been filled, any remaining employee will be assigned to the appropriate reserve board.

Those failing to bid or those failing to bid sufficient positions in order of choice to provide for assignment to a position will be force assigned to those working positions going no bid prior to force assignment to any Reserve Board. 

3.             Under this Article VI, an eligible employee must have a seniority date on the Oregon Division in train/yard service prior to the date of this agreement and must be working in such service immediately prior to being assigned to a bulletined position.