MERGER IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT

(Portland Hub)

Zone 1  

between the

  UNION PACIFIC

SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

  and the

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.