A G R E E M E N T
between the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
and the
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION
( C, T and E Divisions )
Interdivisional Service – Supplemental Understandings
Fourth & Fifth Seniority
Territories:
Westward Eastward
Spokane – Hinkle Hinkle – Spokane
Lewiston – Hinkle Hinkle – Lewiston
Section 1. Section 1, of Part II of the Interdivisional Service Agreement, dated July 20, 1972, reads in part as follows –
” . . and all miles run over one hundred (100) shall be paid for at the mileage rate established by the basic rate of pay for the first 100 miles or less.”
(See also Section 3(a) of Article XII Interdivisional Service) of the Mediation Agreement – Case A-8830 – of January 27, 1972).
In the application and administration of Section 1 of Part II of the Interdivisional Service Agreement, dated July 20, 1972, the basic rate of pay shall apply for all miles run and paid for; provided, however, that the parties shall be governed and controlled by any agreements and understandings which may flow from rational handling of issues, including those before the Standing Committee (Article XIV of the Mediation Agreement of January 27, 1972) as such issues relate to:
a) Basis of pay
b) Car-scale additives
c) Mileage hold down
d) Elimination of arbitraries.
Section 2. In the application and administration of c (i) (Eating-Interdivisional Freight Service) of Part III (Rule Changes and Modifications of the Interdivisional Service Agreement and, in order to expedite the movement of interdivisional runs of more than one hundred (100) miles, a Superintendent’s circular will be issued to the effect that employees (conductors brakemen and firemen) on interdivisional runs established pursuant to the terms of the agreement dated July 20, 1972 (effective May 1, 1972) shall operate from interdivisional terminal to interdivisional terminal without stopping for the purpose of eating.
NOTE: Employees (conductors, brakemen and fire men) called for extra interdivisional freight service will be governed by the terms and provisions of this Section 2 and the same Superintendent’s circular instructions as applicable to employees in assigned interdivisional freight service established pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Interdivisional Agreement dated July 20, 1972 (effective May 1, 1972) unless otherwise notified at the time. call is issued for such interdivisional service.
Section 3. In the application of Section E (i) (Expenses Away From Home) of-Part III (Rules Changes and Modifications) and where Hinkle, Oregon has been established as the home terminal for Fourth and Fifth Seniority District employees, the company shall continue to provide free lodging in the Hinkle clubhouse for such employees only so long as the Hinkle clubhouse is maintained and operated by the company under the existing Suitable Lodging Agreements; provided further, however, that should the Hinkle clubhouse cease to be maintained and operated as a company facility and/or other lodging facilities be substituted in lieu thereof, the terms and provisions of this Section 3 shall not apply and the parties shall then be governed by the terms and provisions of Section 1 of Article II of the National Agreement of June 25, 1964, as amended by Article XI , Section I of the Mediation Agreement of January 27, 1972 (Case A-8830) , as such agreements relate both to regularly assigned and extra employees filling assignments operating into and out of established home terminals of a particular interdivisional assignment or interdivisional service run.
Section 4. Fourth Seniority District employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) operating and handling trains in interdivisional service from Hinkle, Oregon under the terms and provisions of the Interdivisional Agreement, dated July 20, 1972 (effective May 1, 1972) will be called at least one hour and thirty minutes (1 ’30”) before the time required to report for duty.
NOTE: Under this provision, it is understood and agreed certain emergency factors may arise that may preclude strict adherence to the one hour and thirty-minute call time factor but, in all other cases, the one hour and thirty-minute time factor for calling employees will govern.
Section 5. The road mileage figures as set forth in Section 1, subsection (a)(iii), Part I of the Interdivisional Service Agreement, dated July 20, 1972, shall apply only to those employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) who have established seniority as such as of May 1, 1972; thereafter, employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) operating runs in interdivisional service under the agreement dated July 20, 1972 shall be paid only the actual road mileage to be calculated from the point where initial terminal time begins and ends (designated departure point) and the point where final terminal time begins (designated arrival point), i.e., the designated main track switch connecting with the yard track at the final interdivisional terminal. Such actual road mileage to be determined and made a part of this Understanding and Section 1, Part I of the Interdivisional Service Agreement.
NOTE: The terms of this Section 5 do not apply for the interdivisional service assignments operating between Hinkle and Lewiston and Lewiston and Hinkle, the actual road mileage being as shown in Section 1, subsection (a) iii), Part I of the Interdivisional Service Agreement.
Section 6. Employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) deadheading to or from established interdivisional service terminals shall, if such deadhead trips are compensable, be allowed the same mileage for such deadhead trips as the mileage set forth in Section 1, subsection (a) iii), Part I of the Interdivisional Service Agreement, dated July 20, 1972; provided further, however, that the terms and provisions of Section 5 of this Agreement as set out above shall apply to employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) employed on and after May 1, 1972, and such employees shall be allowed only the actual road mileage when deadheading on company business from one interdivisional terminal to another interdivisional terminal.
Section 7. In the application of Part III (a) i) – Initial Terminal Delay – it is understood that initial terminal time, under the governing rule, as amended, for employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) engaged in interdivisional freight service, shall be paid until the train actually starts on its road trip from the yard track where first made up; provided further, however, that if the train does not actually depart from the yard track where first made up and is stopped and is held in the same yard track for reasons other than lining the switch for the continuous outbound movement, initial terminal delay time shall continue to be paid until the train again actually starts on its road trip from the yard track where the train was first made up.
Section 8. Final terminal delay for crews (employees) in interdivisional freight service and other freight service runs under the governing Final Terminal Delay Tim Rules in the respective governing schedule agreements shall begin at the points specified below:
| Station | Train Direction (Final Tml) | Point Where Final Tml Delay Time Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 119 | Westward Hinkle | MP 184.7 via 6th Subdvn (Wye switch) |
| 859 | Westward Hinkle | MP 184.7 via 6th Subdvn (Wye switch) |
| 151 | Westward Hinkle | MP 184.7 via 6th Subdvn (Wye switch) |
| 860 | Eastward Lewiston | West switch of East Lewiston yard |
| 120 | Eastward Spokane | Napa St connection BN Tower MP 369.2 |
| 298 | Eastward Spokane | Napa St connection BN Tower MP 369.2 |
Section 9. The terms of Sections 1 through 8 of this agreement shall be effective May 1, 1972 for those specific employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) who are engaged in interdivisional service established pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Agreement dated July 20, 1972; provided further, however, that none of the terms of Sections 1 through 7 of this agreement nor the terms of the agreement dated July 20, 1972 shall apply to any employee who is not engaged in interdivisional service and in which interdivisional service certain employees have not been inducted except that the provisions of Sections 7 and 8 of this agreement shall apply to all employees in interdivisional service and/or other freight service assignments on and after May 1, 1972.
Dated at Portland, Oregon this 20th day of July, 1972.
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION: UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:
S/ N. B. Beckley
Director of Labor Relations – System
s/ C.G. Kunze
General Chairman – C Division
S/ J. P. Watson
General Chairman – T Division
S/ Albert Foord
General Chairman – E Division
APPROVED: S/ F. D. Tuffley
Vice President, U T U
A G R E E M E N T
between the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
(Northwestern District-Oregon Division)
and the
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION
(C, T & E Divisions)
INTERDIVISIONAL SERVICE
Fourth and Fifth Seniority Districts
Territories:
Westward Eastward
Spokane – Hinkle Hinkle – Spokane
Lewiston- Hinkle Hinkle – Lewiston
Supplementa1 Understandings
Fourth and Fifth Seniority Districts
Section 1. Section 4 of Part II of the Basic Interdivisional Service Agreement, dated July 20, 1972, reads as follows –
“Interdivisional service not otherwise allocated pursuant to Section 2 of this Part II shall be manned by employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) from the seniority district where the service originates.
“Example: An extra train to be operated in interdivisional service at Hinkle, Oregon. In such a situation, the service shall be protected by employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) from the Fourth Seniority District.”
In the application and administration of Section 4 of Part II (Mileage Allowances, Allocation of Crews and Equalization of Mileage) as above quoted –
IT IS AGREED:
Section 4 of Part II shall be amended to the extent that the following shall be added as a subsection (b) thereof –
(b) Employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) called and used pursuant to Section 4, Part II as above quoted, may be used in interdivisional service from the opposite interdivisional service terminal if traffic is available within twelve (12) hours from the time tied up, otherwise such employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) shall be deadheaded to their home terminal.
NOTE: Extra crews, if to be used in service on a return interdivisional service trip pursuant to subsection (b) of Part II of this Agreement and the basic Interdivisional Runs Agreement, will be notified at the time of tie-up that they are to be used in interdivisional service within twelve (12) hours from the time tied up and, if not so notified, such employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) will be deadheaded on the first available train or other means of transportation.
Section 2. Where, under the terms of the Basic Interdivisional Runs Agreement and the terms of the cycle arrangement for allocation of crews and equalization of mileage as between Fourth and Fifth Seniority District employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) and Hinkle, Oregon has been established as home terminal for Fifth Seniority District employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen), i.e., for Train 659 and certain trains between Hinkle and Spokane when equalizing mileage, Fifth Seniority District employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) must give sufficient notice of their desire to be absent (lay off) in order that the Carrier may have sufficient time to provide relief employees (conductors, brakemen and firemen) by utilization of available train service (Trains 119 and 151) which operate from Spokane, Washington to Hinkle, Oregon.
Section 3. This Agreement shall be effective July 20, 1972, and will remain in full force and effect until changed, amended or modified in accordance with the Railway Labor Act, as amended.
Dated at Portland, Oregon this 20th day of July 1972.
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION: UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY:
S/ N. B. Beckley
Director of Labor Relations – System
S/ C. G. Kunze
General Chairman, C
Division
S/ J. H. Watson
General Chairman, T
Division
S/ Albert Foord
General Chairman, E
Division
APPROVED: S/ F. D. Tuffley
Vice President, U T U
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Department of Labor Relations
July 20, 1972
Mr. J. H. Watson
General Chairman, UTU T
Portland, Oregon 97214
Mr. C. G. Kunze
General Chairman, UTU C
Pocatello, Idaho 83201
Mr. H. M. Price
General Chairman, UTU E
Pocatello, Idaho 83201
cc: Mr. F. D. Tuffley
Vice President, UTU
Gentlemen:
With respect to the agreement dated July 20, 1972 covering the establishment of interdivisional service on the Oregon Division. It was agreed that the parties would meet within ninety days of the date of said agreement for the purpose of resolving the remaining differences and issues over suitable lodging at Hinkle, Lewiston and Spokane.
It was further agreed that should the parties, i.e., the Division Superintendent, or his representative, and the Local Chairman, be unable to resolve the problem, the Director of Labor Relations and a representative of the organization, i.e., General Chairmen, would meet for the purpose of disposing of the dispute.
Yours truly,
S/ N. B. Beckley
A C C E P T E D:
S/ C. G. Kunze
General Chairman, T Division
S/ J. H. Watson
General Chairman, C Division
S/ Albert Foord
General Chairman, E Division
APPROVED: S/ F. D. Tuffley
Vice President, U TU
