II. SENIORITY AND WORK CONSOLIDATION.

The following seniority consolidation will be made:

A. A new seniority district will be formed and master Seniority Rosters--(UP/UTU) Salt Lake Hub--will be created for the employees working as Conductors, Brakemen, Yardmen ( the term yardman shall, in this agreement, refer to all yard positions including foreman, helper, utility man, herder, switchtender and post October 31, 1985 hostlers) and Firemen in the Salt Lake Hub on November 1, 1996. ( The term "trainmen" is used hereafter as a generic term to include all UTU-C,T&Y represented employees and where applicable all UTU-E represented employees) The four new rosters will be created as follows:

1 . Switchmen/brakemen placed on these rosters will be dovetailed based upon the employee's current seniority date. If this process results in employees having identical seniority dates, seniority will be determined by the employee's current hire date with the Carrier.

2. Conductors placed on these rosters will be dovetailed based upon the employee's actual promotion date into the craft. If this process results in employees having identical seniority dates, seniority will be determined by the employee's current hire date with the Carrier.

3. All employees placed on a roster may work all assignments protected by a roster in accordance with their seniority and the provisions set forth in this agreement

4. New employees hired and placed on the rosters subsequent to the adoption of this agreement will have no prior rights.

B. Employees assigned to the merged rosters with a seniority date prior to November 1, 1996, will be accorded primary prior rights reflecting their previous seniority areas that remain in the Hub and secondary prior rights with dovetail rights being the final determination for selection purposes to pool operations as follows:

 Note 1: The Carrier does not plan Salt Lake City - Ogden pool operations and this service will be handled by an extra board or road switcher service. If sufficient extra work, develops to sustain 4 or more pool turns, then a pool shall be established and pro rated on a 50/50 basis with Idaho prior right employees taking the odd numbered turns and DRGW prior right employees taking the even numbered turns.

Note 2: Salt Lake City - Helper may be combined with either the Salt Lake City - Grand Junction or the Salt Lake City - Provo pool.

Note 3: This Section does not limit the Carrier to these pool operations. New pools operated on prior rights areas will have the same primary prior rights and those that operate over two prior right areas will be manned from the dovetail roster.

Note 4: The Salt Lake City-Elko pool and the Salt Lake City-Grand Junction pool shall be single-headed operations with Salt Lake City as the home terminal. The Carrier shall give ten days written notice of the change to single headed pools if not given in the original 30 day implementation notice.

C. Yard crews will not be restricted in a terminal where they can operate but the following will govern which employees will have preference for assignments that go on duty in the following areas:

D. Road Switchers will work in a given area and may cross prior right boundaries.  Employees shall have prior rights to road switchers based on the on duty points:

1 . Salt Lake City - North: Idaho.

2. Salt Lake City - Provo: DRGW

3. Provo - Milford: South Central

4. Salt Lake City - Milford via Tintic: South Central

5. In other areas the prior rights of the on duty points will 
govern.

E. Locals that continue current operations shall be prior righted.  Locals that operate over more than one prior rights area shall be prior righted based on the on duty point.

F. It is understood that certain runs home terminated in the Salt Lake Hub will have away from home terminals outside the Salt Lake Hub and that certain runs home terminated outside the Salt Lake Hub.will have away from home terminals inside the Salt Lake Hub. Examples are: Salt Lake City/Ogden runs to Green River and Pocatello, and Portola/Sparks to Elko. It is not the intent of this agreement to create seniority rights that interfere with these operations or to create double headed pools. For example, Sparks will continue to be the home terminal for Sparks/Elko runs and a double headed pool will not be established.

G. All trainman vacancies within the Salt Lake Hub must be filled prior to any trainman being reduced from the working list or prior to trainman being permitted to exercise to any reserve boards.

H. With the creation of the new seniority district all previous seniority outside the Salt Lake Hub held by trainmen on the new rosters shall be eliminated and all seniority inside the Hub held by trainmen outside the Hub shall be eliminated.

I. Trainmen will be treated for vacation and payment of arbitraries as though all their service on their original railroad had been performed on the merged railroad.

J. Trainmen who have been promoted to Engine service and hold engine service seniority inside the Salt Lake Hub and working therein on November 1, 1996 shall be placed on the appropriate roster(s) using their various trainmen seniority dates. Those Engine service employees, if any, who do not have a train service date in the Salt Lake Hub shall be given one in accordance with the October 31, 1985 National Agreement.  Those engine service employees who previously came from an area that was not covered by an UTU-E contact shall be placed on the dovetail UTU-E roster with their current “reserve engineer" (fireman) seniority date.