Item – 43 (D)

FREIGHT CONDUCTORS’ EXTRA BOARDS

Effective September 1, 1972 all prior agreements under which freight conductors’ extra boards have been established are cancelled. On and after that date, the establishment of a freight conductors’ extra board shall be subject to the Provisions set forth below:

  1. Subject to the approval of the General Chairman, UTU(C) and the Director of Labor Relations, a freight conductors’ extra board will be established at a district freight terminal within ten (10) days after written notice is served by the Local Chairman, UTU(C) to the Superintendent. Such extra board will thereafter protect all vacancies in freight service as hereinafter provided.
  2. Vacancies on the extra board will be filled by assignment of the senior conductor having written application on file with the crew dispatcher, with copy to the UTU(C) Local Chairman. If no applications are filed, the junior promoted conductor will be assigned.
  3. Applications for assignment to the conductors’ extra board will automatically expire thirty (30) days after submission unless renewed in writing. Applications may be cancelled at any time prior to notification of assignment by written notice to the crew dispatcher with copy to the UTU(C) Local Chairman.
  4. Extra conductors will receive a monthly guarantee, or portion thereof, equivalent to 3,850 miles at the basic freight rate of pay. The guarantee will be computed on a daily basis and will not apply to any date an extra conductor lays off or is otherwise not available for service on that calendar day.
  5. Regulation of the extra board:

    1. The Superintendent will regulate the extra board. Sufficient conductors will be assigned to maintain the average mileage between 3,850 and 4,200 per month; however, the Carrier will not be subject to claims because of the regulation thereof.
    2. On days the extra board is regulated, assignments to and reductions from the extra board will be effective at 1:00 PM.
    3. Deadheading which results from the regulation of mileage will not be paid for.
  6. Mileage registration:

    1. Extra conductors will register their actual accumulated mileage at the home terminal on completion of each trip in a book provided at a location agreed to by the Superintendent and the UTU(C) Local Chairman.
    2. Extra conductors who fail to register their mileage will be placed last out after proper mileage is registered.
  7. When the conductors’ extra board is exhausted:

    1. Vacancies will be filled by the senior conductor available at calling time with written application on file.
    2. If no conductor with application on file is available, the junior promoted conductor available at calling time will be used.
  8. Except where another period of time is mutually agreed upon by the Superintendent and Local Chairman, all pool freight vacancies of less than thirty (30) days will be filled from the conductors’ extra board.
  9. Assignment duration and movement:

    1. Conductors assigned to the extra board will remain thereon not less than thirty (30) days unless displaced, except that such conductor may move to a bulletined regular assignment or to a new turn or a permanent vacancy in the freight pool, provided his written application has been on file not less than five (5) days prior to assignment of the vacancy or new turn.
    2. Conductors relinquishing the extra board must displace the junior pool freight conductor when seniority permits; otherwise, they will displace per Rule 92(15).
  10. An extra conductor laying off will not be permitted to mark up in less than twenty-four (24) hours when other extra conductors are available. Extra conductors tying up for rest will be considered as laying off.
  11. Outlying vacancies:

    1. Extra conductors called for vacancies at outlying points will be released to return to the extra board after seven (7) days or on completion of the last trip preceding the layover day, and will be placed last out at tie-up time that day.
    2. An extra conductor released from an outlying vacancy will not be called a second time for the same vacancy if other extra conductors are available.
    3. In the protection of outlying vacancies, deadhead pay will be allowed only for the first trip to and the last trip from such vacancy. No intermediate deadheads will be paid.
  12. Layoff and missed calls:

    1. An extra conductor laying off when first out or not available for call will, on reporting for duty, be placed last out after the run or turn for which he stood returns to the home terminal, subject to Rule 46.
    2. When laying off or missing call for an outlying vacancy, the extra conductor will be required to report at the outlying point without deadhead pay in either direction. If the outlying vacancy no longer exists or has been filled under Rule 44(a)(1), the extra conductor will be placed last out.
    3. It is understood this provision does not estop the Carrier from administering such discipline as it deems proper for a missed call.
  13. Pool freight conductors may file application as provided herein for assignment to the conductors’ extra board; and extra conductors who have been on the extra board more than thirty (30) days may file application for assignment to new or vacant pool turns.
  14. Extra conductors called for short turnaround service out of district terminals will stand first out twelve (12) hours after tie-up, unless different terms for application to a particular district are specifically provided for by the parties.
  15. An individual freight conductors’ extra board established under the terms of this agreement may be cancelled by the serving of ten (10) days written notice by either party; and such cancellation shall have no effect on any other such extra board.
  16. All rules pertaining to extra conductors which may be in conflict with the provisions of this agreement are superseded.
  17. This agreement shall be effective September 1, 1972 and will terminate ten (10) days after written notice is served by either party.

Dated at Omaha, Nebraska this 7th day of August, 1972.