UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
1416 DODGE STREET
OMAHA NEBRASKA 68179
Side Letter #4
Mr. L. L. Nelson
General Chairman UTU C&T
936 SE Ankeny Street
Suite F
Portland, OR 97214
Dear Sir:
This will
confirm our discussions concerning the Conductor‑Only Crew Consist
negotiations.
This refers
to Paragraph 3(b) of Article IV of the Memorandum of Agreement. That paragraph
provides the compensation of an employee on the Tier II Reserve Board shall be
"50% of the employee’s established Reserve Board test period".
During our
negotiations the parties recognized there were a set of peculiar and unique
circumstances on the Oregon Division that warranted special consideration. Those
circumstances include the following: there are no employees occupying a Reserve
board position established under a prior Modified Agreement (all the second
brakemen/helpers have been attrited), there has been significant growth in
traffic volume, the Division has supported the use of "borrowed out"
employees to address manpower shortages and application of the Modified
Agreements have not necessitated unnecessary hiring. All of these factors have
created a situation on the Oregon Division where there is no second brakeman
surplus. Therefore, when the conductor‑only agreement is implemented, it
is unlikely employees will be assigned to the Tier II Reserve Board.
Since there
is a very good possibility that there will be no employees assigned to Tier II
Reserve Boards upon implementation of the conductor‑only agreement, the
following special consideration will be given, should an employee be placed on a
Tier II Reserve Board following implementation of this Agreement, the employee
will receive 70% of the employee’s earnings used to establish a Reserve Board
test period or the 1991 earnings as described in Part 5 (d) (ii) of Article IV
of the agreement.
If the foregoing adequately sets
forth our understanding and agreement, please so indicate by signing in the
space provided below.
Yours
truly,
L. A.
Lambert
Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
L.L. Nelson
General Chairman - UTU C&T
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