Mr. R. E. Carter
General Chairman, UTU-T
P. O. Box 1333
Pocatello, Idaho 83204
Mr. D. L. Smith
General Chairman, UTU(C&T)
165 South West Temple
Arrow Press Square, Suite 110-6
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Dear Gentlemen:
During our negotiations concerning crew consist issues, your Organization raised several issues concerning deadheading. It was alleged that certain provisions of Article VI–Deadheading of the 1985 National Agreement unfairly impacted a few trainmen.
A review of these issues revealed that when and how often a trainman is deadheaded is partially controlled by other factors including work rules. Some of the factors include not being rested, two or more crews called at the same time, run-around rules and held-away-from-home problems.
It is believed that the most productive method of dealing with these problems is to form a committee of Local Chairmen, Assistant Directors of Labor Relations and Managers of CMS to identify all the problems and propose solutions to us. This would permit us to deal with the entire deadheading situation as a whole and not on a piecemeal basis. These discussions would be handled as a part of the quarterly conferences referred to in Letter #1 herein.
Should this be agreeable to you, please acknowledge by signing below.
Yours truly,
L. A. Lambert
Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
Carter
General Chairman, UTU-T
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D. L. Smith
General Chairman, UTU-C
