ARTICLE XI VACANCIES

(1) (a) When permanent vacancies occur on a regular must-fill job, Extra Board position or Reserve Board, trainmen may elect, by seniority option, to fill the vacancy in accordance with existing rules including movement between Territories 1 & 2. I

(b) When there are no voluntary seniority options for the vacancy, it will be filled by the recall of a furloughed trainman who is eligible for the vacancy. If the vacancy is filled under the voluntary provisions set forth in (l)(a) above, the resiilting vacancy will be bulletined immediately following the above-described procedure. This process will continue until a trainman is recalled as follows:

NOTE 1: A trainman must be an eligible trainman under Article V, Section (1) or (18) (e) to hold a Reserve Board position. It is understood that a trainman not eligible under Article V, Section (1) or (18)(c) cannot subseqtaently exercise seniority under this Article to a Reserve Board position.

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(e) A furloughed trainman hired prior to the effective date of this Agreement whose home terminal is in the zone where the vacancy exists will be recalled;

NOTE 2: Zones referred to above are as follows:

Nampa Zone - Huntington to Glenns Ferry, includes assignments working at or west out of Glenns Ferry.

Pocatello Zone - Glenns Ferry to Granger and McCammontoButte, including assignments working east out of Glenns Ferry.

Salt Lake City Zone - Salt Lake City to McCammon, including Salt Lake City Yard.

Ogden Union Railway and Depot Co. Zone - Yard assignments at Ogden.

(d) If no furloughed trainman hired prior to the effective date of this Agreement is available in a zone, then a furloughed trainman hired prior to the effective date of this Agreement in the territory Granger - Huntington/Salt Lake City - Butte will be recalled;

(e) If no furloughed trainman hired prior to the effective date of this Agreement is available, the junior trainman among those holding blankable brakemen/helper positions and the Reserve Board in the zone where the vacancy exists will be assigned to the regular job or extra board; however, they will not be forced to the Reserve Board.

(f) If there are no trainman in the zone on the Reserve Board or holding blankable brakemen/helper positions, then furloughed trainman hired on the territory after the effective date of this Agreement will be recalled. Trainman hired after the effective date of this Agreement will have no zone rights and the senior furloughed trainman in the territory shall be recalled.

(g) If the vacancy cannot be filled in this manner, existing rules will apply.

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(h) Trainmen recalled frcto the Reserve Board and blankable positions will have the right to exercise their seniority and take any position in their zone in accordance with existing work rules and the provisions of this Agreement.

(i) No temporary vacancies on any blankable brakeman/helper position to which a trainman is regularly assigned will be filled.

(j) For eligible trainmen on the territory, there will be a so-called "Sadie Hawkins Week11 the first week of August and February each year, to be effective September 1 and March 1. The "Sadie Hawkins Week" will operate only for trainmen wishing to exercise seniority to or from a Reserve Board. Local Chairmen will work with Carrier representatives in the implementation of "Sadie Hawkins Week."