GUARANTEED EXTRA BOARDS
A. Yard Extra Boards
Guaranteed yard extra boards shall be established at Salt Lake City, Ogden (OUR&D), Pocatello, and Nampa. All current rules and practices governing the handling of yard extra boards are eliminated and the following shall govern:
(1) The “work week” for employes on the extra boards shall be a period of seven days starting with Monday.
(2) Trainmen assigned to this extra board established under this agreement shall be guaranteed the equivalent of eleven (11) basic days in a payroll period subject to the following conditions:
(a) The Carrier shall have the unqualified right to determine the number of employes that are to be maintained on such extra board, provided, however, that when the extra board is increased, such adjustment will be made in accordance with the rules and provisions of the effective Trainmen’s Agreement.
(b) Trainmen who are ready and available for service the entire payroll period and who do not lay off of their own accord during the payroll period shall qualify for the guarantee provided under Section (2) of this Agreement.
(c) The guarantee of eleven (11) minimum basic days’ pay will be reduced by one reduced day for each 24 hour period and/or portion thereof that such assigned employe is not available for service during the payroll period.
NOTE 1: A reduced day is a fraction of the number of days in a pay period. For example, in a 15 day period, one (1) reduced day would be 1/15th reduction of the eleven (11) basic days for the pay period.
NOTE 2: The term “payroll period” as used in this agreement shall be understood to mean a period:
FROM THE First of the month TO THE Fifteenth day of the same month
and
Sixteenth day of the Last day of the month same month
(d) Trainmen assigned to the Yard Guaranteed Extra Board who are used in emergency road service will not have their
first two (2) trips in emergency road service used as an offset of their guarantee.
(e) This agreement shall remain in effect subject to cancellation by either party by a written notice served upon the thirty (30) days in advance.
B. Conductor and Brakemen Guaranteed Extra Boards
(1) (a) A separate road guaranteed extra board for Conductors will be established at Salt Lake City, Utah. Road Non-Guaranteed Conductor Extra Boards will continue to operate as presently in effect at Pocatello and Nampa. Separate road guaranteed extra boards for Brakemen will be established at Salt Lake City, Pocatello and Nampa.
(b) Trainmen assigned to these Boards who were hired prior to November 1, 1985, will be guaranteed 20 basic days per pay period. Those trainmen hired after October 31, 1985 will be guaranteed 18 basic days per pay period.
(2) The rate of pay on the extra boards will be the Conductor’s or Brakeman’s (whichever is applicable) local rate of pay, 1-80 car count. Payment of the guarantee, including adjustments, will be made no later than the payroll half following the payroll half in which the guarantee payment was incurred.
(3) (a) All earnings received by a trainman assigned to a Guaranteed Extra Board under this Section B will be used in computing the trainman’s guarantee. Such computations will not include non-taxable income such as meal, lodging and personal auto mileage payments. Penalty claim payments, if any, will be paid in addition to any guarantee payments and there shall be no offset.
Q. Will the Productivity Fund payments under Article VII be used as an offset for any guarantee provisions?
A. No.
(b) A Guaranteed Extra Board trainman standing first out who lays off, lays off on call, misses call or is not available for call will have the guarantee reduced by the amount they would have earned had they not been unavailable, with a minimum reduction of one guaranteed day.
(c) Only the first three (3) trainmen who miss a call as a result of the first Guaranteed Extra Board trainman laying off on call, missing call or not available for call will have their Guarantee reduced in the same manner as Item (b) above. However, any trainman on the Guaranteed Extra Board who lays off when other than first out will have his/her guarantee reduced by one (1) reduced day for each 24-hour period or portion thereof.
(d) A trainman assigned to a Guaranteed Extra Board who is unavailable as a result of (b) or (c) above for more than two (2) occurrences per pay period or who is unavailable for more than seventy-two (72) combined hours per pay period will forfeit any guarantee for that pay period.
NOTE 1: Local Chairmen who lay off union business will not be subject to (d), but will be subject to (b) and (c) of this Section 3.
The guarantee reductions will not apply for absences due to Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave Days, Vacations, Rules Classes, Jury Duty, Physical Examinations or other instances where the trainman is held at the instruction of the Carrier.
Q. How will each day a trainman is marked up on a Guaranteed Extra Board be applied for qualifying for vacation?
A. The amount of make up guarantee will be converted to equivalent days in miles or hours as contemplated by the 1949 National Vacation Agreement and that number of days, in addition to time worked, will be considered as qualifying days for vacation purposes.
NOTE 2: Absences as defined in Item (e) above will count as days on the Board for guarantee purposes. Compensation received for these days will be used as an offset to any guarantee that may be due.
(4) (a) The Carrier shall regulate the number of trainmen on the Guaranteed Extra Boards but the Carrier shall ensure that a sufficient number of trainmen are on each board to maintain the average pay period between:
• 18 and 22 basic days for trainmen hired prior to November 1, 1985
• 16 and 20 basic days for trainmen hired after October 31, 1985
The Reserve Board as provided for in Article V of this Agreement will not be used to supplement the Guaranteed Extra Boards.
NOTE: If the guarantee payments are too high or too low, the parties may adjust the payments in either direction by mutual consent.
(b) Trainmen recalled from furlough status or used in emergency service while furloughed will result in the creation of a position(s) on the board for a period of seven (7) days.
EXAMPLE:
The senior furloughed trainman is unavailable to be used in emergency service on day 1. A junior furloughed trainman is used and an extra board position is created for seven (7) days. The senior furloughed trainman has the right to fill the position for the remaining days.
Q. What is the calculation of the guarantee pay for the senior furloughed trainman when recalled to the board?
A. The furloughed employe is a post October 31, 1985 hire, which entitles this employe to an eighteen (18) day guarantee at the local rate for a fifteen (15) day pay period.
Assume the employe is recalled to the board on June 12 and does not work the entire first pay period which would allow this employe four (4) guarantee days.
Calculation:
18 days at the local rate divided by 15 days in pay period, then multiplied by the number of guarantee days.
Example:
$104.00 (local rate)
× 18 days guarantee
$1,872.00
÷ 15 days
$124.80 daily guarantee
× 4 days guarantee
$499.20 guarantee
(5) (a) The Conductor and Brakemen Guaranteed Extra Boards will remain in effect for a period of 180 days following the effective date of this Agreement. Thereafter, the Conductor and/or any of the Brakemen Guaranteed Extra Boards may be cancelled upon thirty (30) days written notice by the General Chairman or Director Labor Relations.
If cancelled, the existing rules applicable to the extra board prior to this Agreement will govern the handling of the extra board.
(b) The current Non-Guaranteed Conductor Extra Boards at Pocatello and Nampa can be established as Guaranteed Boards under the conditions set forth in this Agreement through written concurrence between Labor Relations and the General Chairman. If such Board(s) is established as Guaranteed, either Party thereafter will have the right to subsequently cancel such Guarantee Board(s) in the same thirty (30) day written advance manner as provided in Item (a) above.
