MERGER IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT

(Portland Hub)

Zone 1

between the

UNION PACIFIC

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

and

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS

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, to consolidate the seniority of all engineers working in the territory covered by this Agreement into one common seniority district covered under a single, common collective bargaining agreement,  

IT IS AGREED: 

I.            Portland Hub 

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 (Pocatello sub) 191.80 at McCammon, Idaho and to milepost (Pocatello sub) 0.64 at Granger, Wyoming; SP territory from (including) Chemult, Oregon to the Portland Terminal.  The Hub shall be divided into three zones as follows: 

Zone 1 will include operations Chemult north to Seattle and Portland east to (not including) Hinkle. 

Zones 2 and 3 are not defined in this document but will be addressed in implementing agreements/awards covering those zones.

NOTE 1:  Zone 1 shall include all main and branch lines, industrial leads and stations between the points identified.  

NOTE 2: Crews with home terminals within a Zone may work to points outside the Zone and Hub without infringing on the rights of other engineers in other zones or Hubs.  The Zone identifies the on duty points for assignments and not the boundaries of assignments.  For example a road switcher on duty at Hinkle may work in any direction up to the limits of its radius as set by the road switcher agreement and a work train at Hinkle may work both east and west.  Both of these assignments would use Zone 2 crews without infringing on the rights of Zone 1  crews.  A Zone  1 pool freight crew would continue to operate through freight from Portland to Hinkle and perform the same work as it performed pre-merger.

    NOTE 3: If former SP lines known as the Siskiyou and Coos Bay are reacquired     by the Carrier then those lines that go as far as Bellview/Power will also be       included in the SP prior right area.

NOTE 4:  Any trackage, either under lease or sale, that may be reacquired by the UP will be included in the appropriate prior right territory.