MERGER IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT
(Portland Hub)
Zone 1
between the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION
In Finance
Docket No-32760, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Surface
Transportation Board ("STB") approved the merger of the Union Pacific
Corporation ("UPC"), Union Pacific Railroad Company/Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company (collectively referred to as "UP") and Southern
Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific Transportation Company
("SP"), St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company ("SSW"),
SPCSL Corp., and The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
("DRGW') (collectively referred to as "SP"). In approving this
transaction, the STB imposed New York Dock labor protective conditions.
In order to
achieve the benefits of operational changes made possible by the transaction and
to consolidate the seniority of all employees working in the territory covered
by this Agreement into one common seniority district covered under a single,
common collective bargaining agreement (CBA), new seniority districts shall be
created that encompasses the following area:
UP territory
including milepost 182.79 west of Seattle, Washington to Eastport Idaho on the
Spokane International to milepost 390.0 at Silver Bow Montana to milepost 191.80
(Pocatello Sub) at McCammon, Idaho and to milepost 0.64 (Pocatello Sub) at
Granger, Wyoming; SP territory from milepost 503.3 at Chemult, Oregon to the
Portland (Albina) terminal. The Hub shall be divided into three zones.