APPENDIX 1
COORDINATIONS/CONSOLIDATIONS
A. BELLEVUE-SANDUSKY COORDINATION
Bellevue-Sandusky yard operations, forces, and facilities of former Nickel Plate and former Pennsylvania Railroad Districts will be unified and coordinated in
accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1 – Yard Consolidation Land Terminal Designation
The yards of former NKP at Bellevue and former PRR at Sandusky, including the road territory between former Bellevue and Sandusky Yards, will be and
function as a consolidated terminal yard and will be designated as the home and/or away-from-home terminal of road crews of former NKP and former PRR,
including the designation as the away-from-home terminal of road crews operated in pool service with home terminal at Columbus. The established home
terminals of Former "C" and "F" Districts of former NKP will not change.
Section 2 - Yard Service
(A) Yard crews in the employ of this company in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may perform service at any point within the consolidated switching
limits, including road trackage of former Sandusky Line at which former NKP yard crews and former PRR road and yard crews performed service prior to
November 26, 1974 without regard to the employment connection of individual crew members prior to November 26, 1974.
(B) Regular yard crews assigned or extra yard crews called to perform the preponderance of their service in the Sandusky Yard portion of the consolidated
Bellevue-Sandusky Yard and/or, on the road portion of the Sandusky District between former Bellevue and Sandusky yards will be advertised or called to go
on and off duty at yard crew relieving points in former Sandusky Yard.
(c) Regular yard crews assigned or extra yard crews called to perform the preponderance of their service in the Bellevue Yard portion of the consolidated
Sandusky-Bellevue Yard will go on and off duty at yard crew relieving points in the former Bellevue Yard.
(D) Employees of former PRR hired prior to November 26, 1974 will have prior rights to crews assigned or called under Paragraph (b) above. Employees of
former NKP hired prior to November 26, 1994 will have prior rights to crews assigned or called under Paragraph (c) above.
(E) Yard crews will be assigned to go on and off duty and perform the preponderance of their service in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard as nearly as
practicable consistent with service requirements, in accordance with the percentages shown below; however, no crews of former NKP will be bulletined to go on
and off duty and perform service in former Sandusky Yard territory or in road territory of former PRR between former Bellevue and Sandusky yards, except at
the Schulman Plastics Company or any other industry at Bellevue lying between Sandusky District M. P. 93 and M. P. 99, so long as there are prior rights
employees of former PRR who desire to avail themselves of an assignment advertised or called to go on and off duty in former Sandusky Yard territory, but
who are unable to do so because of insufficient prior rights seniority.
No crews of former PRR will be bulletined to go on and off duty and perform service in former Bellevue Yard territory so long as there are prior rights
employees of former NKP who desire to avail themselves of an assignment advertised or called to go on and off duty in former Bellevue Yard territory, but who
are unable to do so because of insufficient prior rights seniority:
Equity Percentages - Bellevue - Sandusky Yard
Open Lake Season Closed Lake Season
Former NKP 77.67% 91.84%
Former PRR 22.33% 8.16%
(P) In the application of this Section 2, it will not be permissible to temporarily annul a yard crew assigned tinder Paragraph (b) and during the same trick
perform service in the Sandusky Yard portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard with a crew assigned under Paragraph (c). _ Neither will it be
permissible to temporarily annul a yard crew assigned under Paragraph (c) and during the same trick perform service in the Bellevue Yard portion of the
consolidated Sandusky-Bellevue Yard with a crew assigned under Paragraph (b).
Section 3 -Road Service
(A) Road crews of former NKP and former PRR may go on and off duty and obtain and/or set out their trains at locations presently used for such purposes
within the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky switching limits.
(B) Employees of former PRR hired prior to November 26 1974 will have prior rights to road service on the former Sandusky District. Employees of former NKP
hired prior to November 26, 1974 will have prior rights to road service on the road territories of former NKP to which they held rights prior to such effective date.
Section 4 - Consolidation of Seniority Rosters - Prior Rights
(A) Interchangeable seniority rights will be established for conductors, brakemen am yardmen as provided herein, on each of their respective seniority districts.
Seniority Districts
Sandusky District of Scioto Division and C&F Districts of Lake Erie Division
Prior Rights
Conductors, brakemen and yardmen holding seniority as such prior to November 26, 1974 shall retain prior rights on their former respective seniority districts
according to their then existing seniority standings.
Seniority rosters will be prepared for each district to protect the following services:
( 1) Road Service - The Lake Erie Division. F District rosters and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District rosters will be topped and bottomed.
(2 ) Yard Service - The Lake Erie Division, C District rosters and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District rosters will be topped and bottomed.
Employees hired for road service on the Sandusky Line after the November 26, 1974 will be placed on the bottom of the presently established <IF" District
Interchangeable Rights Roster following the Sandusky District trainmen who were added to such roster in accordance with Item (1) above.
Employees hired for yard service at Bellevue and/or Sandusky after November 26, 1974 will be placed on the bottom of the presently established "C" District
Interchangeable Rights Roster following the Sandusky District trainmen who were added to such roster in accordance with Item (2) above.
Section 5 - Interchangeable Rights
(A) Commencing with November 26, 1974, employees may exercise their seniority from one seniority district to another seniority district in accordance with
existing rules as modified by the provisions of this Award.
(B) Effective November 26, 1974, interchangeable seniority rights will be established for firemen as provided herein, on each of their respective seniority
districts except as modified herein.
(c)Seniority rosters will be prepared for each district to protect the following services:
(1) Road-Yard Seniority - The Lake Erie Division, F District roster and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District roster will be topped and bottomed. Employees
hired after November 26, 1974 will be placed on a consolidated roster with rights to service on all of the territories referred to herein.
For the purposes of maintaining and exercising seniority in the territories consolidated by this Agreement, prior rights firemen of former NKP will be governed
by the NKP Rule 40 (C-2) and prior rights firemen of former PRR by PRR Regulation I-D-l.
. (2) NKP Yard Service - Lake Erie Division, C and F District firemen will be
governed by the provisions of former NKP Rule 32(e) in the selection of yard positions.
Note: Any engine service employees who were hired prior to November 26, 1974, but who have not been promoted to engineer as of that date will, when
promoted, be given prior rights only on the division where they hold seniority as fireman and will rank on their prior rights roster in the order of their promotion
as determined in accordance with presently existing rules ahead of engineers who were given seniority rights on other than their prior rights roster.
(D) This Appendix shall not affect prior interchangeable seniority agreements now in effect on the respective districts.
Section 6 - Yard Crew On and Off Duty Points
(A) Yard crew starting and relieving points in the Bellevue portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may be at any of the points presently
considered as proper starting or relieving points of former NKP.
(B ) Yard crew starting and relieving points in the Sandusky portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may be at any of the points presently
considered as proper starting or relieving points of former PRR.
Section 7 - Qualifying
(A) Employees who are required to qualify in portions of the consolidated Bellevue Sandusky Yard with which they are not now familiar will not be required to
do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former PRR on territory of former NKP, the employees used for this purpose
will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former NKP. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former NKP on territory of former
PRR, the employees used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former PRR.
Section 8 -Extra Lists - Filling of Vacancies
The maintenance and regulation of extra lists and the filling of vacancies in the separate Bellevue and Sandusky portions of the consolidated Bellevue-
Sandusky Yard will continue as heretofore. In the event it is deemed advisable to consolidate the extra lists as between the Bellevue and Sandusky portions of
the yard or change the method of filling vacancies in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard, such matters will be the subject of prompt negotiations.
Section 9 - Schedule Rules Applicable
(A) Except as provided herein and as may otherwise be appropriate to give full effect to the provisions of this Appendix, employees hired prior to the November
26, 1974 will work in the road territory Columbus to Sandusky and in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard under the rates of pay, rules and working
conditions of their respective schedule agreements. Employees hired on and subsequent to November 26, 1974 will work in the territories described above
under rates of pay, rules and working conditions of the schedule agreements of former Nickel Plate District of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
Company.
(B) Employees holding seniority on rosters of former Sandusky Line on the November 26, 1974 who thereafter exercise their subsequent rights seniority to
road or yard positions outside the consolidated territories provided for herein will work under the rates of pay, rules and working conditions of the former Nickel
Plate District of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company.
Section 10 – Protection of Employees
(A) Employees adversely affected with a seniority date in train or engine service prior to October 16, 1964, will be entitled to the protective provisions of the
January 10, 1962 Merger Agreement. Other employees adversely affected by the application of this Award with a hired seniority date in train or engine service
subsequent to October 15, 1964, and prior to November 26, 1974 will be entitled to the protective provisions of Article XIII of the January 27, 1972 National
Agreement, it being understood that all provisions of said Article XIII pertaining to "protection" of employees are hereby incorporated by reference and shall be
applied in the same manner and to the same extent as if this coordination was covered by said Article XIII.
Section 11 - Transportation
Due to the distances between the Sandusky and Bellevue portions of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard, an arbitrary of one (1) hour, at the
appropriate pro rata rate, will be paid to each employee with a seniority date prior to November 26, 1974 who is sent to fill a vacancy in a yard other than that
of a former Seniority District, or required to work a regular assignment in a yard other than that of his former Seniority District in order to obtain employment or
in the application of Section 10 hereof.
Section 12 - Switching Limits
(A) I t is agreed that the east switching limits for yard crews at Bellevue, Ohio, are extended eastward on the Lake Erie Division to Mile Post 240.5 subject to
the provisions of this agreement:
(1) The "four miles" provided in Article 10(c) of the May 23,1952 National Agreement with employees represented by the Order of Railway Conductors and
Brakemen will be measured from mile Post 243.64 in event those provisions should be invoked by the carrier with regard to a new industry locating in the
Bellevue area on the Lake Erie Division line east of the east switching limits for Bellevue yard crews. .
(2) Rules covering rights to work train service shall be applied as if the east switching limits or yard limits at Bellevue on the Lake Erie Division were still located
at Mile Post 243.64.
(3) Road crews may pass Mile Post 240.5 when performing station switching at Kimball or industry switching at industries where the switch governing
movement from the main track to the track or tracks serving such industry is located between the E&O Crossing at Kimball and Mile Post 240.5.
(B) Mileage Allowances
Head end Rear end
East Wayne to Bellevue
Train yarded in the old yard 122 miles 124 miles
Train yarded in the new yard 126 miles 125 miles
Bellevue to East Wayne
From old yard 124 miles 121 miles
From new yard 124 miles 123 miles
Bellevue to Conneaut
From old yard 133 miles 134 miles
From new yard 130 miles 131 miles
Conneaut to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 136 miles 133 miles
Train yarded in new yard 130 miles 129 miles
Peru to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 183 miles 182 miles
Train yarded in new yard 188 miles 183 miles
Bellevue to Peru
From old yard 183 miles 182 miles
From new yard 183 miles 185 miles
Lima to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 100 miles 100 miles
Train yarded in new yard 100 miles 100 miles
Bellevue to Lima
From old yard 100 miles 100 miles
From new yard 100 miles 100 miles
(1) The above mileages will apply when the employee goes on and off duty at the proposed new yard office to be located in the vicinity of Mile Post 244.83.
Mileages for employees on trains yarded in the new yard are based on the train being yarded in proposed new receiving tracks to be located approximately
between Mile Post 242.60 and Mile Post 244.42. The mileages for employees handling their train from the new yard are based on the train being handled from
proposed new departure tracks lying approximately between Mile Post 243.67 and 245.96. Where the foregoing conditions do not prevail the employees will be
paid the actual miles travel on the trip.
Section 13 Lockers
Each extra Conductor whose home terminal is Bellevue, Ohio, will be furnished a locker at the facilities in the vicinity of the new dormitory at Bellevue.
Section 14 - Parking Facility
An appropriate adequate all weather surface parking facility with lights will be provided in the vicinity of the dormitory.
Section 15 - Calling Limits
Present calling limits at Bellevue will be retained for employees who are in service on or before May 12. 1966.
Section 16- Point for Going On and Off Duty
Men in road service with a seniority date on or before April 29, 1966 will be paid $2.50 in addition to other allowances for each round trip on which they are
required to go on and off duty in the vicinity of the hump at Bellevue Yard. When necessary new facilities are completed, road crews will go on and off duty in
the vicinity of the hump.
Section 17 – Dormitory Facilities
Roadmen who qualify for lodging under suitable lodging agreement at Bellevue shall be provided with dormitory facilities, said dormitory to be constructed with
sleeping rooms on not more than three floors, air conditioned, each room with window and with sound absorbent partitions. The rooms shall be not less than 8
x 10 feet in dimension. A recreation room and central showers and toilet facilities will be provided on each floor. Dormitory will be constructed so that additions
can be added if necessary. In event dormitory is unable to accommodate an employee who is eligible for suitable lodging the employee will be furnished
lodging of equal quality elsewhere and provided transportation to and from the substitute lodging facility.
(B) Sleeping rooms will be furnished as follows:
(1) One single size bed
(2) Innerspring mattress and suitable pillows
(3) Bedding suitable for the weather (extra blankets available on request)
(4) Table and chair (rubber tips on legs of chairs)
(5) Reading lamp
(6) Suitable fixture for clothing
(7) Clean linen for each occupancy
(8) Adequate soap and towels
(c) Roadmen will be given preference to 1st and 2nd floor rooms if other employees are permitted to use this lodging facility. The lodging facilities provided for
in this agreement shall be available to employees during the entire period of tie-up.
(D) Twenty-four (24) hour attendant service will be maintained;
(E) Recreation rooms will be provided with the following:
(1) Easy chairs
(2) Card tables
(3) Television set in two recreation rooms
(4) Radio in one recreation room
(5) Suitable reading lamps
(F) A cafeteria shall be operated serving a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu. Complete meals and various short orders shall be available upon order twenty-
four (24) hours per day.
(G) A joint local Committee shall be appointed, composed of one (1) member from each of the organizations representing operating employees and one (1)
local official of the Carrier. The organization members shall have one (I) composite vote. The Carrier member shall have one vote. The functions of the
Committee shall be to handle complaints relating to the Bellevue dormitory and endeavor to dispose of them promptly.
Complaints not disposed of by the joint Committee may be referred by the General Chairmen of the organizations representing operating employees to the
Director of Personnel, who will arrange for a prompt on-the-ground joint inspection of the premises with the General Chairmen of the organizations
representing the operating employees. If the complaint is not resolved in such handling with the Director of Labor Relations, these General Chairmen or the
Director of Labor Relations may request the appointment of a neutral to resolve the dispute.
If the General Chairmen and the Director of Labor Relations are unable to agree upon a neutral within 10 days from the date of the request for his
appointment, the General Chairmen or the Director of Labor Relations may request the Senior Judge of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio, Eastern Division, to appoint a neutral.
Fifty percent (50%) of the fees and expenses of such neutral, which will be the same as the amount paid neutrals appointed as referees for the National
Railroad Adjustment Board under the Railway Labor Act, shall be paid by the Carrier and fifty percent (50%) by the Organizations.
The neutral shall make an on-the-ground investigation and inspection of the complaint in company with representatives of the Carrier and representatives of
the operating employees' organizations and shall make his decision in writing to the representatives of the parties within ten (10) days from the date of
completion of the inspection and investigation.
Section 18 - Pilots
Locomotives handled from the Mechanical Department's facilities to any point within switching limits or locomotives handled to the Mechanical Department's
facilities from any point within switching limits, by other than road or yard crews, where manually operated switches which are not located within the Mechanical
Department's facilities must be handled, shall be piloted by a yardman who shall be paid the yard foreman's rate of pay.
Section 19 - Bleeder Service
Bleeder service shall be retained to yardmen at Bellevue as provided for in present local agreement of November 8, 1952.
When independent bleeder assignment( s) are started in the vicinity of the hump, one of the independent bleeder assignments who start in the old yard as
provided in such agreement may be designated as a "floater" and work in both the old yard and the new yard. When the designated "floater" is working in the
new yard the other bleeder in the old yard may work in both the eastbound and the westbound sections of the old yard. The "floater" bleeder will be provided
transportation between the old yard and the vicinity of the hump when required to work in the new yard.
Bleeders may, in addition to bleeding air from cars, make cuts between cars, line switches. A yardman assigned as bleeder may be used to relieve a man on a
crew who has been relieved account of sickness, injury or other emergency until the man called to relieve the absent employee reports for the job without
additional compensation until relief reports on the job. This will not permit the use of such yard helpers to start a tour of duty or to finish a tour of duty with a
yard crew.
B. CHICAGO COORDINATION
Chicago Yard operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1
(A) The interested General Chairmen of the organization signatory hereto will be given not less than thirty (30) days' notice in writing of the Carrier's intent to
consolidate the separate facilities of the Merged Company at Chicago, Illinois, as provided for herein.
(B) The terms "yard crews" (yard assignments) and "yard service" in this Agreement mean. crews or individuals assigned to and performing yard, belt line and
transfer service thereof permissible under the respective schedule agreements.
Section 2 - ALLOCATION OF CREWS IN THE TERMINAL
(A) For the purpose of determining the equities of employees of the seniority districts affected by the consolidation of facilities at Chicago, Illinois, the Carrier
has furnished the General Chairmen signatory hereto the total yard engine hours operated and the total cars dispatched for the period January, 1961, to July,
1964, inclusive, and a list of the proposed initial yard crew assignments indicating the crew symbols, reporting and relieving points and reporting times,
contemplated for the beginning of the consolidated operation. Accordingly, the interested General Chairmen have decided upon the determined ratio for the
seniority districts involved, which is as follows:
50% former NKP employees
50% former Wabash employees
NOTE: For the purposes of this Agreement, former Wabash Chicago Terminal employees having an equity in the consolidated terminal will be referred to
as former Wabash employees. Former NKP - Ft. Wayne seniority district firemen and former NKP Chicago Terminal yardmen having an equity in the
consolidated terminal will be referred to as former NKP employees.
(B) The interested General Chairmen have decided upon the allocation of yard crew assignments to the seniority districts involved in the determined ration,
using the procedure set forth below in this Article 1 D.
(c) Prior to this Agreement being placed in effect, carrier will advise the local chairmen of former NKP and former Wabash roster men as to the crew
assignments, which will be made effective on the effective date of this agreement. These will be the assignments then in effect for
former NKP and for former Wabash employees as of the effective date of the consolidation, and this will constitute the initial allocation of crews or assignments
for the employees of each former carrier, subject to adjustment to establish the determined ratio of allocation in the following manner:
(I) If crews are increased, and one district is behind in its allocation percentage, crews will be allocated to the district short in its percentage until balance in the
determined ration under "A" is achieved. Thereafter, additional crews will be allocated to the former district in which the crew is assigned to start, subject to the
equity adjustment procedures of "D".
(2) If crews are to be decreased, and one .district is ahead in its allocation percentage, crews allocated to the district ahead in its percentage will be decreased
until balance in the determined ratio under "A" is achieved provided this can be done from allocated crews starting in the former district in which the reduction
in forces is to be made. If no crews are allocated to the district ahead in its percentage at the location where the crews are to be decreased, the reduction will
be made in crews allocated to the district behind in its percentage and a corresponding number of crews allocated to the employees of the other district
working on the same shift as the discontinued crews will be reallocated and assigned to the employees of the district entitled to same. The local chariman or
his or their designated representative of the employees of the former carrier losing the crew allocation under the foregoing provision of this subsection (b) will
be given an opportunity to designate the crew to be reallocated from the affected shift prior to the time the crew must be designated for selection or
assignment purposes to the employees eligible to bid. If the local chairman or his or their designated representative fails to exercise this option in time to make
it effective on the day the change is scheduled, the carrier will designate the crews to be reallocated consistent with the above-described procedure.
(3) In the event the Wabash roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the NKP roster will provide the man or men
necessary.
(4) When as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority the Wabash yard roster does not provide any man for a crew allocated to it under this
Appendix, that crew will always thereafter be allocated to the NKP roster, unless it should become necessary to reallocate a crew to the Wabash yard roster as
a result of a man returning to yard service after being absent. In no event will the current allocation of crews to the Wabash yard roster exceed the number
required to provide employment for the men in active service on the Wabash yard roster.
(5) When, as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority, there are no former Wabash employees assigned to an extra board protecting former
Wabash assignments, vacancies of former Wabash employees will be filled form the extra boards protecting former NKP vacancies except as provided herein.
(D) After reasonable balance in the determined ratio has been achieved pursuant to' Section 2, imbalance in allocation percentage of starts will be adjusted
each four (4) month period as follows:
( 1) The carrier will keep a record of all regular yard starts (excluding equity recovery assignments), separately for yard ground crews and firemen
assignments, which are in excess of the determined ratio, and will furnish such list as soon as possible after the 15th and last day of each month to the
General and Local Chairmen involved.
NOTE: Work train, pilot and hostling assignments, regular and extra are excluded for allocation purposes and will be manned by available employees from
the former territory in which the service originates.
(2) Before the end of each four (4) month checking period, beginning with the effective date of the coordination of the Chicago Terminal, the interested Local
Chairmen or their designated representatives will determine from the lists furnished by the Carrier as to whether or not an imbalance of thirty (30) or more
starts has developed or will develop in the determined ratio by the end of the current checking period.
(3) If it is determined that an imbalance of thirty (30) or more starts in the determined ratio has or will develop by the end of the checking period, a regular
assignment will be made available at the beginning of the next period from the debtor district to the district entitled to same which they may hold until the
accrued recovery shifts have been worked off. Recovery shifts not protected when available to former Wabash employees will be forfeited. If less than 30 shifts
are available for recovery at the beginning of the recovery check period, the imbalance will be carried over in the next checking period. In designating equity
recovery assignments, if the local chairmen or their designated representatives fail to name the recovery assignment or assignments in time for the change to
be made effective at the beginning of the checking period, the carrier will designate the recovery assignment for that period.
Section 3 - Seniority Lists and Applicable Schedule Rules
(A) ( 1) Schedule agreements in effect on the effective date of this Appendix on each
seniority district for filling vacancies will remain, in effect.
(2) Employees working in yard service in the consolidated terminal will work under the agreement rules in effect with their former carrier.
(3) Employees filling vacancies on crews allocated to employees of the other former carrier will take the conditions of the assignment they are filling with
respect to on and off duty location and starting time.
(B) Extra lists on each seniority district will continue to be adjusted in accordance with agreements and interpretations thereto in effect prior to the
consolidation of the terminal.
(C) Extra crews will be filled by men from the seniority district from which started.
(D) On and after the effective date of this Agreement, no men will be added to the Wabash Chicago Terminal yard roster.
Section 4 - Learning New Territory
An employee having an equity in the Chicago Terminal as of the effective date of this Agreement who by reason of the operation of the schedule agreement
and by this Agreement takes an assignment working in territory of the consolidated terminal with which he is not familiar will not be required to lose time for the
purpose of learning such territory. If yard service employees are used to qualify foreman of former Nickel Plate on territory of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken form the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified yardmen of former Nickel Plate will be used for this purpose.
Section 5 - Use of Employees
(A) In effecting the consolidations provided for in this Agreement, the consolidated facilities of the former carrier will be considered a terminal of the Merged
Company. (The term "former carrier" or "former carriers" as used in this Article refers to the NKP and Wabash.)
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(B) (1) Road and yard employees of the former NKP may be required to perform
services throughout the consolidated terminal in accordance with their respective Schedule Agreement in the same manner as though such consolidated
terminal was a terminal of their former carrier.
(2) Road and yard employees of the former Wabash may be required to perform services throughout the consolidated terminal in accordance with their
respective Schedule Agreement in the same manner as though such consolidated terminal was a terminal of their former carrier.
(c) Where crews of a former carrier perform service outside of switching limits in accordance with pre-existing agreements or understandings, crews of any
former carrier in the consolidated operation may be required to perform service covered in such agreements or understandings.
(D) (1) In the consolidated Chicago Terminal the following work may be performed
by road trainmen without additional compensation, except as otherwise provided for in the rules:
(a) Former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews may be
required to perform any services within the consolidated Chicago Terminal that they previously could be required to perform under existing Agreements and
Rules in their former yards in Chicago.
(b) In addition thereto, former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews may be required to yard their inbound trains \in any designated appropriate
point within the consolidated terminal, subject to the provisions of the final terminal delay rules and suitable lodging arrangements. Carrier may change
designated point as required.
(c) And, in addition, former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews on outbound runs may be required to pick up their trains for departure from any
designated appropriate point within the consolidated terminal, subject to the provisions of the initial terminal delay rules. Carrier may change designated point
as required.
(E) Road and yard employees may be required to report and be relieved at designated points in the consolidated terminal, so long as such designated points
meet the requirements of the schedule agreements, interpretations and practices on the property.
(F) Insofar as it is practicable to do so, the allocation of crews will be made in such a manner as to result in crews of former NKP going on and off duty at
former NKP yards, and crews of former Wabash going on and off duty at former Wabash yards. These efforts will also extend to the allocation of work by tricks
in an equitable manner.
(G) Temporary vacancies on Wabash yard crews which cannot be filled at the straight time rate from the Wabash extra lists will be filled from the NKP extra
lists, except that if it would be necessary to fill the vacancy with an NKP extra man who would be entitled to the time and one half rate it will then be filled under
the applicable agreement by an available Wabash roster man employed at Chicago. It is understood that this provision will not be applicable when there are
Wabash yardmen on furlough.
Section 6 - Transportation
Due to the distances between the Calumet, the Landers Yards and the 47th Street Yards, an arbitrary of one hour, at the appropriate pro rata rate, will be paid
to each present extra yard crew employee who is sent to fill a vacancy in a yard other than that of his former seniority district, and to any yardman forced to a
regular assignment in a yard other than that of his former seniority district. This Section is not to apply to employees employed subsequent to December 8,
1971.
C. CLEVELAND COORDINATION
Cleveland yard operations, forces, and facilities of former Nickel Plate and former Wheeling and Lake Erie Districts will be unified and coordinated in
accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1 - New Hires
No employees hired by former WLE District subsequent to August 1, 1971, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Cleveland.
Section 2 - Allocation
(A) All Cleveland yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former NKP employees 66-2/3%
Former WLE employees 33-1/3%
(B) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former NKP and former WLE, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the crew
assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former NKP and former WLE will be obtained through normal changes in the number of assignments brought about
by the demands of the service. For example - if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect, as at present, a percentage
inequity insofar as former NKP employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is changed by either
the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that in the application of this agreement it may, from time 'to time or for fixed
periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former NKP and other positions on the same crew to employees of
former WLE.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis by trainmen
assigned to such crews, the first 60day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former NKP desiring same and the following 30-day period to be
allocated to the senior trainman of former WLE. A record will be maintained and kept available for the use of authorized organization representatives of the
manning of foreman positions under this arrangement so that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is
established, later abolished and re-established, the manning of the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described.
Fireman positions of such crews will be manned on an alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained and kept
available for the use of authorized' organization representatives for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60-day and 30-day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and 30
working days.
(D) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above, an additional assignment is to be established at Cleveland Yards, it will be designated and bulletined
to employees of former NKP. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, an adjustment in crew allocations
will be made so as to more nearly arrive at the assignment percentage allocation as specified in Section 2(a). Further changes in assignments will be
accomplished in the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the percentages as set forth in Section 2(a).
(E) At such times as employees of former WLE do not accept positions allocated to them hereunder and bulletined to them NKP employees may bid to that
assignment under the same bulletin. It is understood, however, that employees of former WLE hired prior to August 1, 1971, may at any time thereafter obtain
such positions through the normal application bidding and displacement rules.
Section 3- Extra Assignments
Extra yard crews will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former NKP, be manned on an alternating basis, two extra crews by
employees of former NKP and one extra crew by employees of former WLE. .
When an extra yard crew is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former seniority district to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned
accordingly.
At the Cleveland Terminal only, extra yard crews will be advertised as regular assignments for WLE yardmen.
Section 4 - Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(A) The NKP schedule agreement will be applicable to all former NKP and WLE employees at Cleveland.
(B) It is understood, however, that when there are no employees who were hired prior to August 1, 1971, assigned to the extra boards at Cleveland protecting
vacancies on former WLE yard positions, vacancies on former WLE yard positions will be filled by employees of former NKP.
(c) Temporary vacancies on WLE yard crews which cannot be filled at the straight time rate from the WLE extra lists will be filled from the NKP extra lists,
except that if it would be necessary to fill the vacancy with a NKP extra man who would be entitled to the time and one-half rate it will then be filled under the
applicable agreement by an available WLE roster man employed at Cleveland. It is understood that this provision will not be operative at times when
employees hired prior to August 1, 1971, on former WLE are cut off the WLE extra or working lists at Cleveland.
(D) ( 1) Extra men from NKP extra lists hired prior to August 1, 1971, will be paid
one (1) hour at straight time rate when required to go to Campbell Road Yard to fill a vacancy of a WLE man laying off. It the vacancy is of sufficient duration to
require the assignment to be bulletined under the schedule rules applicable to WLE men, NKP extra men filling that vacancy while under bulletin will be paid
the one (1) hour allowance for each shift they fill that vacancy while it is under bulletin.
(2) Extra men from NKP extra lists hired prior to August 1, 1 971, will be paid one (1) hour at the straight time rate when required to go to Campbell Road Yard
to fill a WLE vacancy that is bulletined for reasons other than a man laying off. The payment provided for in this paragraph (2) will be made only to the NKP
extra men who fill the vacancy up to and including the first four (4) days such vacancy exists.
(3) In the application of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section to NKP extra men who fill vacancies which are bulletined, the allowance of one (1) hour provided
will be paid only to the NKP extra men required to go to Campbell Road Yard to fill such vacancy the first time the particular vacancy is bulletined, or re-
bulletined as provided for in Section 2(e).
Section 5 - Switching Limits
Cleveland yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the switching limits of
both the former NKP and WLE.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Yard crew starting and relieving points may be at any points presently considered as proper starting or relieving points on either former NKP or former WLE.
The points presently considered proper and used for this purpose are as follows:
Former NKP Former WLE
East 55th Street Campbell Road Yard
East 75th Street
East 40th Street - Northern Ohio Food Terminal Ivanhoe
East 23rd Street (B.D. Yard)
Section 7 - Road Trains
Road crews of former NKP and former WLE may go on and off duty and obtain and/ or set out their trains at locations presently used for such purposes within
the Cleveland switching limits, i.e., East 55th Street, East 75th Street and Campbell Road yards.
Section 8 -Work Train Service
Work train service in Cleveland switching limits will be performed exclusively by yard crews.
Section 9 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Cleveland Yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former WLE on territory of former NKP the employees used for
this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former NKP. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former NKP on territory
of former WLE, the employees used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former WLE.
Section 10 - Protection of Employees
The Agreement for Protection of Employees signed April 16, 1962, effective January la, 1962, shall apply to the employees protected thereby who are affected
by this agreement.
Section 11 - Special Understanding
(A) All brakemen and firemen hired on former WLE subsequent to October 16, 1964, and prior to the June 11, 1971 shall have their names placed in their
former WLE seniority order immediately following the youngest men on the seniority lists for their respective crafts on the Lake Erie Division, "C" District, of
former NKP. The employees whose names are to be so placed shall be restricted to those employees who have as of the date this agreement is executed
performed a majority of their service at or out of Campbell Road Yard at Cleveland, or who on this date maintain their legal residence within 35 miles of
Cleveland.
(B) Former WLE brakemen covered by Section 11 may at their own option exercise their NKP seniority in accordance with former NKP rules and practices
except:
1. A WLE brakeman will not be permitted to take the NKP extra list at Cleveland if his seniority permits him to hold a regular WLE position at Cleveland.
2. A WLE brakeman may become assigned to the NKP extra list at Cleveland when he can hold only the WLE extra list at Cleveland but in these circumstances
will not be permitted to return to the WLE extra list or to a regular WLE position for a period of at least 30 days unless cut off the NKP extra list.
The restriction included in Item 2 above will not be applicable if a WLE brakeman becomes assigned to the NKP extra list at a time when he cannot hold any
assignment, regular or extra, on the former WLE at Cleveland.
D. LAFAYETTE COORDINATION
Lafayette yard. operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated ill accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follow:
Section 1 - New Hires
No Peoria District employee hired by former Nickel Plate subsequent to December 20, 1969, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Lafayette.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) All Lafayette yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former Wabash employees 66-2/3%
Former NKP employees 33-1/3%
(b) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the
crew assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will be obtained through normal changes ill the number of assignments
brought about by the demands of the service. For example - if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect, as at present, a
percentage inequity ill so far as former Nickel Plate employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is
changed by either the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that ill the application of this agreement it may, from time
to time or for fixed periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former Wabash and other positions on the same
crew to employees of former Nickel Plate.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis as is by
trainmen assigned to such crews the first 60-day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former Wabash desiring same and the following 3_-day
period to be allocated to the trainman of former Nickel Plate if he desires same. A record will be maintained of the manning of foreman positions under this
arrangement so that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is established, later abolished and re-established
the manning of the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described. Fireman positions of such crews will be manned
on an alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60 and 30day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and
30 working days.
(d) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above an additional assignment is to be established at Lafayette Yards, it will be designated and bulletined to
employees of former Nickel Plate. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, a crew designated to former
Wabash will be abolished. Further changes in assignments will be accomplished in. the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the
percentages as set forth in Section 2(a).
(e) At such time as employees of former Nickel Plate are not, through normal operation of their schedule agreements, manning positions available to them
under the application of this agreement, such positions will be bulletined and assigned to employees of former Wabash. It is understood, however, that Peoria
District employees of former Nickel Plate hired prior to December 20, 1969, may at any time thereafter obtain such positions through the normal application of
former Nickel Plate bidding and displacement rules, including rules relating to the exercise of interchangeable seniority rights.
Section 3. Extra Assignments
Extra yard engines will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, be manned on an
alternating basis, four months by employees of former Wabash and two months by employees of former Nickel Plate.
When an extra yard engine is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former carrier to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned accordingly
regardless of whether the employees of former Wabash or former Nickel Plate are manning extra yard engines at the time.
Section 4 . Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(a) Schedule agreements applicable to former Wabash employees at Lafayette, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Wabash and to employees of former Wabash assigned to mixed crews as referred to in 2 (c) or 2 (e) above.
(b) Schedule agreements applicable to former Nickel Plate employees at Lafayette, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Nickel Plate and to employees of former Nickel Plate assigned to mixed crews as referred to ill 2( c) or 2( e) above. It is understood,
however, that when there are no Peoria District employees who were hired prior to December 20, 1969, assigned to the extra boards protecting vacancies on
former Nickel Plate positions, vacancies on former Nickel Plate will be filled by employees of former Wabash.
Section 5 – Switching Limits
Lafayette Yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the presently established switching limits of both the former Wabash and Nickel Plate.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Starting and relieving points will be continued as at present until adequate locker and washroom facilities are available at former Wabash Freight House for
employees of former Nickel Plate.
Section 7 - Work Train Service
Work train service in Lafayette Yards will be performed solely by yard crews. This does not include the territory of former Nickel Plate between station stakes
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Section 8 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Lafayette yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former Nickel Plate on territory. of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified trainmen holding rights on former Nickel Plate Peoria Division will be used for this purpose.
E. PERU COORDINATION
Peru yard operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follow:
Section 1 - New Hires
No IMC employee hired by former Nickel Plate subsequent to June 13, 1972, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Peru.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) All Peru yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former Wabash employees 66-2/3%
Former NKP employees 33-1/3%
(b) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the
crew assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will be obtained through normal changes in the number of assignments
brought about by the demands of the service. For example -- if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect a percentage
inequity insofar as former Wabash employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is changed by
either the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that in the application of this agreement it may, from time to time or for
fixed periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former Wabash and other positions on the same crew to
employees of former Nickel Plate.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis by trainmen
assigned to such crews, the first 60day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former Wabash desiring same and the following 30-day period to be
allocated to the trainman of former Nickel Plate if he desires same. A record will be maintained of the manning of foreman positions under this arrangement so
that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is established, later abolished and re-established, the manning of
the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described. Fireman positions of such crews will be manned on an
alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60 and 30-day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and 30 working days.
(d) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above an additional assignment is to be established at Peru Yards, it will be designated and bulletined to
employees of former Wabash. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, a crew designated to former NKP
will be abolished. Further changes in assignments will be accomplished in the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the percentages as set
forth in Section 2(a).
(e) At such time as employees of former Nickel Plate are not, through normal operation of their schedule agreements, manning positions available to them
under the application of this agreement, such positions will be bulletined and assigned to employees of former Wabash. It is understood, however, that
employees of former Nickel Plate hired prior to June 13, 1972, may at any time thereafter obtain such positions through the normal application of former Nickel
Plate bidding and displacement rules, including rules relating to the exercise of interchangeable seniority rights.
Section 3 – Extra Assignments
Extra yard engines will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, be manned on an
alternating basis, four months by employees of former Wabash and two months by employees of former Nickel Plate.
When an extra yard engine is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former carrier to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned accordingly
regardless of whether the employees of former Wabash or former Nickel Plate are manning extra yard engines at the time.
Section 4 – Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(a) Schedule agreements applicable to former Wabash employees at Peru, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews designated
as former Wabash and to employees of former Wabash assigned to mixed crews as referred to in 2(c) or 2(e) above.
(b) Schedule agreements applicable to former Nickel Plate employees at Peru, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Nickel Plate and to employees of former Nickel Plate assigned to mixed crews as referred 'to in 2( c) or 2( e) above. It is understood,
however, that when there are no employees who were hired prior to June 13, 1972, assigned to the extra boards protecting vacancies on former Nickel Plate
positions, vacancies on former Nickel Plate will be filled by employees of former Wabash.
Section 5 - Switching Limits
Peru Yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the presently established switching limits of both the former Wabash and Nickel Plate and yard
crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will operate within the consolidated limits of Peru Yards as though such terminal was a terminal of their former
carrier.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Starting and relieving points of yard crews will be continued as at present until adequate locker and washroom facilities are available at former Wabash Benton
Street yard office for employees of former Nickel Plate.
Section 7 - Road Trains
Road crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate may operate within the consolidated limits of Peru yards as though such terminal was a terminal of their
former carrier. Road crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will go on and off duty at Benton Street Yard Office. Road crews required to obtain
and/or leave their trains intact in former Nickel Plate yard will be transported between that yard and the Benton Street Yard Office.
It is understood that the designation of the Benton Street yard office as the. on and off duty point for road crews in intended as an initial designation and does
not imply that such on and off duty point might not be changed at some later date in accordance with applicable schedule rules and/or practices involving the
furnishing of washroom facilities, lockers, etc., for employees at designated on and off duty points.
It is also understood that road crews of former Nickel Plate will not be required to go on and off duty at Benton Street yard office until adequate locker and
washroom facilities are available for their use.
Section B - Work Train Service
Work train service in Peru Yards will be performed solely by yard crews.
Section 9 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Peru Yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former Nickel Plate on territory of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified trainmen holding rights on former Nickel
Plate I.M.C. Division will be used for this purpose.
Section 10
This will confirm understanding reached this date concerning the Peru Consolidation Agreement, that in the event the number of yard assignments at Peru are
reduced to the extent that there is only one first trick assignment, the local chairmen will confer and attempt to work out some equitable arrangement to
allocate such assignment to firemen of former NKP and Wabash on an alternating basis so as to nearly as practicable divide the equity of the assignment on
the basis of the percentages set forth in Section 2(a). .
In the event the local chairmen are unable to agree, a conference will be arranged with the general chairmen in an attempt to resolve the issue.
F. TOLEDO COORDINATION
Section 1
Only men on the following rosters will be entitled to participate in the manning of yard crews in the Toledo Terminal: .
(a) Former Toledo NKP's Cloverleaf District Toledo Yard Prior rights Yardmen. Men on this roster will have no rights in any other yards or in road service after
the date of this agreement.
(b) Former Wabash Toledo to include only men who held seniority as yardmen as of October 15, 1964.
(c) Employees of the former NKP's W &LE District seniority roster which is hereinafter referred to as the W&LE roster. This roster will include men hired and
placed on Wabash roster subsequent to October 15, 1964, who will be dovetailed into the W&LE roster. No men will be added to either the Wabash or
Cloverleaf rosters at Toledo subsequent to the date this agreement is signed.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) Yard crew assignments in the Toledo Terminal are allocated to the men on the three (3) seniority rosters involved in accordance with the following table:
Wabash roster's allocation will never exceed six crews. Cloverleaf roster's allocation will never exceed four crews. If the total number of crews exceeds 38, all
crews in excess of 38 will be manned from the W&LE roster. A regular relief crew is considered a crew in the above table.
(b) In the event the Cloverleaf roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the W&LE roster will provide the man, or men
necessary.
(c) In the event Wabash roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the W&LE roster will provide the man, or men,
necessary.
(d) When as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority either the Cloverleaf roster or the Wabash roster, referred to herein, does not provide any
man for a crew allocated to it under paragraph (a) of this Section, that crew will always thereafter be allocated to the W&LE roster, unless it should become
necessary to reallocate a crew to the W &LE roster, unless it should become necessary to reallocate a crew to the Cloverleaf or Wabash roster, as the case
may be, as a result of a man returning to yard service after being absent.
Section 3 - Positions
(a) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement so long as that roster has
men available to fill them.
(b) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to men on the Wabash roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement. so long as that roster has
men available to fill them.
(c) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to or to be filled by a man or men on the W&LE roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement.
Section 4 - Temporary vacancies/Extra crews
(a) Separate extra lists will be maintained for men on the Cloverleaf roster and for the men on the Wabash roster so long as the crews allocated to their
respective rosters do not provide those men with a regular assignment.
(b) Temporary vacancies for helpers on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf roster or to men on the Wabash roster which cannot be filled at the straight
time rate from the extra list for men on such roster to which the crew is allocated will be filled from the W&LE roster's Toledo extra list, except that if it would be
necessary to fill the vacancy with a W&LE roster man who would be entitled to the time and one-half rate it will then be filled under the applicable agreement by
a man from the roster to which the crew is allocated, if a man from that roster is available under the applicable agreement.
(c) Temporary vacancies for foreman on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf or the Wabash rosters will be filled in accordance with their schedule rules
provided the roster to which the crew is allocated can produce a foreman, otherwise the vacancy will be filled from men on the W&LE roster in accordance with
their schedule rules.
(d) In the manning of extra crews, positions on such crews 'Will be regarded as temporary vacancies and paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section will be
applicable. Rights to participate in manning extra crews will be governed by the following:
( 1) When there has been a reduction in force which results in either (or both) the Cloverleaf or the Wabash roster not having its (their) maximum allocation of
crews (four (4) and six (6) respectively) any extra crews worked in Toledo Terminal will be manned from the roster which would be entitled to the next crew in
the allocation table in Section 2(:1) to the extent that roster has a man, or men, available to man positions on the crew pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of
this Section.
(2) When both Cloverleaf and Wabash rosters have their maximum allocation' of crews assigned all extra crews will be manned by W&LE roster men.
Section 5
A crew allocated to the W&LE roster, including crews allocated to that roster as a result of attrition of men on either the Cloverleaf roster or the Wabash roster,
may be assigned to go on and off duty at any point in the Toledo Terminal at which yard crews may be assigned to go on and off duty under schedule rules
and may work anywhere within the switching limits for yard crews in the Toledo Terminal area.
Section 6
(a) Extra men from W &LE roster's extra list will be paid one (1) hour at straight time rate when required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street yards to fill a
vacancy of a man laying off. If the vacancy is of sufficient duration to require the assignment to be bulletined under the schedule rules applicable to men on
the roster to which that crew is allocated, W &LE extra men filling that vacancy while under bulletin will be paid the one (1) hour allowance for each shift they fill
that vacancy while it is under bulletin.
(b) Extra men from W &LE roster's extra list will be paid one (1) hour at the straight time yard rate when required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street yard to fill
a vacancy that is bulletined for reasons other than a man laying off. The payment provided for in this paragraph (b) will be made only to the W&LE extra men
who fill the vacancy up to and including the first four (4) days such vacancy exists.
(c) In the application of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section to W&LE roster extra men who fill vacancies which are bulletined the allowance of one (1) hour
provided will be paid only to the W&LE roster extra men required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street to fill such vacancy the first time the particular vacancy is
bulletined.
Section 7
(a) When there is no extra list for the Cloverleaf roster or for the Wabash roster the bulletin advertising a vacancy on a crew allocated to such roster will also
be posted at Toledo to W&LE roster men, and in the event no applications are received from the roster to which the crew is allocated the senior W&LE roster
man making application will be assigned.
(b) Bulletins advertising vacancies on yard assignments in the Toledo Terminal that are bulletined to men on the W&LE roster will be posted at all bulletin
points at Toledo for W&LE roster men for not less than a full seventy-two (72) hours and, unless otherwise agreed upon by the representatives of the men on
the W&LE roster and the Carrier, will expire at 9:00 a.m., insofar as men on W&LE roster are concerned.
Section 8
Men on Cloverleaf, Wabash and W&LE rosters will work in the consolidated Toledo Terminal under the rates of pay, rules and working conditions of their
respective schedule agreements, except as provided for in this agreement.
Section 9
Notwithstanding any agreement or understanding to the contrary, after this agreement is made effective any individual on the W&LE roster who held seniority
on that roster as of October 16, 1964, and who performed any service between January 10, 1962 and October 16, 1964, who is displaced as a result of a
reduction in the number of yard crews assigned on the Toledo Terminal who does not displace a man hired subsequent to March 2, 1966, will thereafter be
treated as occupying the position producing the greatest compensation which is held by a man hired subsequent to March 2, 1966, on which he could have
displaced when computing the amount of any protective allowance which may be due him under the Agreement for Protection of Employees effective January
10, 1962. This provision shall not apply to men who are displaced ore than 30 days after this agreement is made effective or who are displaced after
September 2, 1966, whichever occurs first.
Section 10
This agreement does not affect the nature of the work which may be required of road crews operated into and out of Toledo via the Delphos, Ft. Wayne and
Montpelier lines and men in road service will continue to work under their respective schedule agreements.
Section 11
(a) The order of selection of allocated crews at Maumee or Sumner Street between Cloverleaf and Wabash roster men shall be as follows: .
1st choice to Wabash roster
2nd choice to Cloverleaf roster
3rd choice to Wabash roster
4th choice to Cloverleaf roster
5th choice to Wabash roster
6th choice to Cloverleaf roster
7th choice to Wabash roster
8th choice to Cloverleaf roster
9th and 10th choices to Wabash roster
Rest days on Cloverleaf and Wabash allocated crews will not be combined to establish an individual regular relief assignment. So long as there are Cloverleaf
and Wabash roster men they will have preference to their allocated crews in accordance with the order of selection table in this paragraph.
(B) If the number of crew abolishment’s or the addition of crews deprives either the Cloverleaf or Wabash roster of crews they would otherwise acquire through
the exercise of the order of selection provided for in paragraph (a) of this Section it will then be recognized that a Local Chairman (or Chairmen) involved has
valid reason, if he so desires, to call for a new selection of crews.
COORDINATIONS/CONSOLIDATIONS
A. BELLEVUE-SANDUSKY COORDINATION
Bellevue-Sandusky yard operations, forces, and facilities of former Nickel Plate and former Pennsylvania Railroad Districts will be unified and coordinated in
accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1 – Yard Consolidation Land Terminal Designation
The yards of former NKP at Bellevue and former PRR at Sandusky, including the road territory between former Bellevue and Sandusky Yards, will be and
function as a consolidated terminal yard and will be designated as the home and/or away-from-home terminal of road crews of former NKP and former PRR,
including the designation as the away-from-home terminal of road crews operated in pool service with home terminal at Columbus. The established home
terminals of Former "C" and "F" Districts of former NKP will not change.
Section 2 - Yard Service
(A) Yard crews in the employ of this company in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may perform service at any point within the consolidated switching
limits, including road trackage of former Sandusky Line at which former NKP yard crews and former PRR road and yard crews performed service prior to
November 26, 1974 without regard to the employment connection of individual crew members prior to November 26, 1974.
(B) Regular yard crews assigned or extra yard crews called to perform the preponderance of their service in the Sandusky Yard portion of the consolidated
Bellevue-Sandusky Yard and/or, on the road portion of the Sandusky District between former Bellevue and Sandusky yards will be advertised or called to go
on and off duty at yard crew relieving points in former Sandusky Yard.
(c) Regular yard crews assigned or extra yard crews called to perform the preponderance of their service in the Bellevue Yard portion of the consolidated
Sandusky-Bellevue Yard will go on and off duty at yard crew relieving points in the former Bellevue Yard.
(D) Employees of former PRR hired prior to November 26, 1974 will have prior rights to crews assigned or called under Paragraph (b) above. Employees of
former NKP hired prior to November 26, 1994 will have prior rights to crews assigned or called under Paragraph (c) above.
(E) Yard crews will be assigned to go on and off duty and perform the preponderance of their service in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard as nearly as
practicable consistent with service requirements, in accordance with the percentages shown below; however, no crews of former NKP will be bulletined to go on
and off duty and perform service in former Sandusky Yard territory or in road territory of former PRR between former Bellevue and Sandusky yards, except at
the Schulman Plastics Company or any other industry at Bellevue lying between Sandusky District M. P. 93 and M. P. 99, so long as there are prior rights
employees of former PRR who desire to avail themselves of an assignment advertised or called to go on and off duty in former Sandusky Yard territory, but
who are unable to do so because of insufficient prior rights seniority.
No crews of former PRR will be bulletined to go on and off duty and perform service in former Bellevue Yard territory so long as there are prior rights
employees of former NKP who desire to avail themselves of an assignment advertised or called to go on and off duty in former Bellevue Yard territory, but who
are unable to do so because of insufficient prior rights seniority:
Equity Percentages - Bellevue - Sandusky Yard
Open Lake Season Closed Lake Season
Former NKP 77.67% 91.84%
Former PRR 22.33% 8.16%
(P) In the application of this Section 2, it will not be permissible to temporarily annul a yard crew assigned tinder Paragraph (b) and during the same trick
perform service in the Sandusky Yard portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard with a crew assigned under Paragraph (c). _ Neither will it be
permissible to temporarily annul a yard crew assigned under Paragraph (c) and during the same trick perform service in the Bellevue Yard portion of the
consolidated Sandusky-Bellevue Yard with a crew assigned under Paragraph (b).
Section 3 -Road Service
(A) Road crews of former NKP and former PRR may go on and off duty and obtain and/or set out their trains at locations presently used for such purposes
within the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky switching limits.
(B) Employees of former PRR hired prior to November 26 1974 will have prior rights to road service on the former Sandusky District. Employees of former NKP
hired prior to November 26, 1974 will have prior rights to road service on the road territories of former NKP to which they held rights prior to such effective date.
Section 4 - Consolidation of Seniority Rosters - Prior Rights
(A) Interchangeable seniority rights will be established for conductors, brakemen am yardmen as provided herein, on each of their respective seniority districts.
Seniority Districts
Sandusky District of Scioto Division and C&F Districts of Lake Erie Division
Prior Rights
Conductors, brakemen and yardmen holding seniority as such prior to November 26, 1974 shall retain prior rights on their former respective seniority districts
according to their then existing seniority standings.
Seniority rosters will be prepared for each district to protect the following services:
( 1) Road Service - The Lake Erie Division. F District rosters and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District rosters will be topped and bottomed.
(2 ) Yard Service - The Lake Erie Division, C District rosters and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District rosters will be topped and bottomed.
Employees hired for road service on the Sandusky Line after the November 26, 1974 will be placed on the bottom of the presently established <IF" District
Interchangeable Rights Roster following the Sandusky District trainmen who were added to such roster in accordance with Item (1) above.
Employees hired for yard service at Bellevue and/or Sandusky after November 26, 1974 will be placed on the bottom of the presently established "C" District
Interchangeable Rights Roster following the Sandusky District trainmen who were added to such roster in accordance with Item (2) above.
Section 5 - Interchangeable Rights
(A) Commencing with November 26, 1974, employees may exercise their seniority from one seniority district to another seniority district in accordance with
existing rules as modified by the provisions of this Award.
(B) Effective November 26, 1974, interchangeable seniority rights will be established for firemen as provided herein, on each of their respective seniority
districts except as modified herein.
(c)Seniority rosters will be prepared for each district to protect the following services:
(1) Road-Yard Seniority - The Lake Erie Division, F District roster and the Scioto Division, Sandusky District roster will be topped and bottomed. Employees
hired after November 26, 1974 will be placed on a consolidated roster with rights to service on all of the territories referred to herein.
For the purposes of maintaining and exercising seniority in the territories consolidated by this Agreement, prior rights firemen of former NKP will be governed
by the NKP Rule 40 (C-2) and prior rights firemen of former PRR by PRR Regulation I-D-l.
. (2) NKP Yard Service - Lake Erie Division, C and F District firemen will be
governed by the provisions of former NKP Rule 32(e) in the selection of yard positions.
Note: Any engine service employees who were hired prior to November 26, 1974, but who have not been promoted to engineer as of that date will, when
promoted, be given prior rights only on the division where they hold seniority as fireman and will rank on their prior rights roster in the order of their promotion
as determined in accordance with presently existing rules ahead of engineers who were given seniority rights on other than their prior rights roster.
(D) This Appendix shall not affect prior interchangeable seniority agreements now in effect on the respective districts.
Section 6 - Yard Crew On and Off Duty Points
(A) Yard crew starting and relieving points in the Bellevue portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may be at any of the points presently
considered as proper starting or relieving points of former NKP.
(B ) Yard crew starting and relieving points in the Sandusky portion of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard may be at any of the points presently
considered as proper starting or relieving points of former PRR.
Section 7 - Qualifying
(A) Employees who are required to qualify in portions of the consolidated Bellevue Sandusky Yard with which they are not now familiar will not be required to
do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former PRR on territory of former NKP, the employees used for this purpose
will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former NKP. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former NKP on territory of former
PRR, the employees used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former PRR.
Section 8 -Extra Lists - Filling of Vacancies
The maintenance and regulation of extra lists and the filling of vacancies in the separate Bellevue and Sandusky portions of the consolidated Bellevue-
Sandusky Yard will continue as heretofore. In the event it is deemed advisable to consolidate the extra lists as between the Bellevue and Sandusky portions of
the yard or change the method of filling vacancies in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard, such matters will be the subject of prompt negotiations.
Section 9 - Schedule Rules Applicable
(A) Except as provided herein and as may otherwise be appropriate to give full effect to the provisions of this Appendix, employees hired prior to the November
26, 1974 will work in the road territory Columbus to Sandusky and in the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard under the rates of pay, rules and working
conditions of their respective schedule agreements. Employees hired on and subsequent to November 26, 1974 will work in the territories described above
under rates of pay, rules and working conditions of the schedule agreements of former Nickel Plate District of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
Company.
(B) Employees holding seniority on rosters of former Sandusky Line on the November 26, 1974 who thereafter exercise their subsequent rights seniority to
road or yard positions outside the consolidated territories provided for herein will work under the rates of pay, rules and working conditions of the former Nickel
Plate District of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company.
Section 10 – Protection of Employees
(A) Employees adversely affected with a seniority date in train or engine service prior to October 16, 1964, will be entitled to the protective provisions of the
January 10, 1962 Merger Agreement. Other employees adversely affected by the application of this Award with a hired seniority date in train or engine service
subsequent to October 15, 1964, and prior to November 26, 1974 will be entitled to the protective provisions of Article XIII of the January 27, 1972 National
Agreement, it being understood that all provisions of said Article XIII pertaining to "protection" of employees are hereby incorporated by reference and shall be
applied in the same manner and to the same extent as if this coordination was covered by said Article XIII.
Section 11 - Transportation
Due to the distances between the Sandusky and Bellevue portions of the consolidated Bellevue-Sandusky Yard, an arbitrary of one (1) hour, at the
appropriate pro rata rate, will be paid to each employee with a seniority date prior to November 26, 1974 who is sent to fill a vacancy in a yard other than that
of a former Seniority District, or required to work a regular assignment in a yard other than that of his former Seniority District in order to obtain employment or
in the application of Section 10 hereof.
Section 12 - Switching Limits
(A) I t is agreed that the east switching limits for yard crews at Bellevue, Ohio, are extended eastward on the Lake Erie Division to Mile Post 240.5 subject to
the provisions of this agreement:
(1) The "four miles" provided in Article 10(c) of the May 23,1952 National Agreement with employees represented by the Order of Railway Conductors and
Brakemen will be measured from mile Post 243.64 in event those provisions should be invoked by the carrier with regard to a new industry locating in the
Bellevue area on the Lake Erie Division line east of the east switching limits for Bellevue yard crews. .
(2) Rules covering rights to work train service shall be applied as if the east switching limits or yard limits at Bellevue on the Lake Erie Division were still located
at Mile Post 243.64.
(3) Road crews may pass Mile Post 240.5 when performing station switching at Kimball or industry switching at industries where the switch governing
movement from the main track to the track or tracks serving such industry is located between the E&O Crossing at Kimball and Mile Post 240.5.
(B) Mileage Allowances
Head end Rear end
East Wayne to Bellevue
Train yarded in the old yard 122 miles 124 miles
Train yarded in the new yard 126 miles 125 miles
Bellevue to East Wayne
From old yard 124 miles 121 miles
From new yard 124 miles 123 miles
Bellevue to Conneaut
From old yard 133 miles 134 miles
From new yard 130 miles 131 miles
Conneaut to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 136 miles 133 miles
Train yarded in new yard 130 miles 129 miles
Peru to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 183 miles 182 miles
Train yarded in new yard 188 miles 183 miles
Bellevue to Peru
From old yard 183 miles 182 miles
From new yard 183 miles 185 miles
Lima to Bellevue
Train yarded in old yard 100 miles 100 miles
Train yarded in new yard 100 miles 100 miles
Bellevue to Lima
From old yard 100 miles 100 miles
From new yard 100 miles 100 miles
(1) The above mileages will apply when the employee goes on and off duty at the proposed new yard office to be located in the vicinity of Mile Post 244.83.
Mileages for employees on trains yarded in the new yard are based on the train being yarded in proposed new receiving tracks to be located approximately
between Mile Post 242.60 and Mile Post 244.42. The mileages for employees handling their train from the new yard are based on the train being handled from
proposed new departure tracks lying approximately between Mile Post 243.67 and 245.96. Where the foregoing conditions do not prevail the employees will be
paid the actual miles travel on the trip.
Section 13 Lockers
Each extra Conductor whose home terminal is Bellevue, Ohio, will be furnished a locker at the facilities in the vicinity of the new dormitory at Bellevue.
Section 14 - Parking Facility
An appropriate adequate all weather surface parking facility with lights will be provided in the vicinity of the dormitory.
Section 15 - Calling Limits
Present calling limits at Bellevue will be retained for employees who are in service on or before May 12. 1966.
Section 16- Point for Going On and Off Duty
Men in road service with a seniority date on or before April 29, 1966 will be paid $2.50 in addition to other allowances for each round trip on which they are
required to go on and off duty in the vicinity of the hump at Bellevue Yard. When necessary new facilities are completed, road crews will go on and off duty in
the vicinity of the hump.
Section 17 – Dormitory Facilities
Roadmen who qualify for lodging under suitable lodging agreement at Bellevue shall be provided with dormitory facilities, said dormitory to be constructed with
sleeping rooms on not more than three floors, air conditioned, each room with window and with sound absorbent partitions. The rooms shall be not less than 8
x 10 feet in dimension. A recreation room and central showers and toilet facilities will be provided on each floor. Dormitory will be constructed so that additions
can be added if necessary. In event dormitory is unable to accommodate an employee who is eligible for suitable lodging the employee will be furnished
lodging of equal quality elsewhere and provided transportation to and from the substitute lodging facility.
(B) Sleeping rooms will be furnished as follows:
(1) One single size bed
(2) Innerspring mattress and suitable pillows
(3) Bedding suitable for the weather (extra blankets available on request)
(4) Table and chair (rubber tips on legs of chairs)
(5) Reading lamp
(6) Suitable fixture for clothing
(7) Clean linen for each occupancy
(8) Adequate soap and towels
(c) Roadmen will be given preference to 1st and 2nd floor rooms if other employees are permitted to use this lodging facility. The lodging facilities provided for
in this agreement shall be available to employees during the entire period of tie-up.
(D) Twenty-four (24) hour attendant service will be maintained;
(E) Recreation rooms will be provided with the following:
(1) Easy chairs
(2) Card tables
(3) Television set in two recreation rooms
(4) Radio in one recreation room
(5) Suitable reading lamps
(F) A cafeteria shall be operated serving a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu. Complete meals and various short orders shall be available upon order twenty-
four (24) hours per day.
(G) A joint local Committee shall be appointed, composed of one (1) member from each of the organizations representing operating employees and one (1)
local official of the Carrier. The organization members shall have one (I) composite vote. The Carrier member shall have one vote. The functions of the
Committee shall be to handle complaints relating to the Bellevue dormitory and endeavor to dispose of them promptly.
Complaints not disposed of by the joint Committee may be referred by the General Chairmen of the organizations representing operating employees to the
Director of Personnel, who will arrange for a prompt on-the-ground joint inspection of the premises with the General Chairmen of the organizations
representing the operating employees. If the complaint is not resolved in such handling with the Director of Labor Relations, these General Chairmen or the
Director of Labor Relations may request the appointment of a neutral to resolve the dispute.
If the General Chairmen and the Director of Labor Relations are unable to agree upon a neutral within 10 days from the date of the request for his
appointment, the General Chairmen or the Director of Labor Relations may request the Senior Judge of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio, Eastern Division, to appoint a neutral.
Fifty percent (50%) of the fees and expenses of such neutral, which will be the same as the amount paid neutrals appointed as referees for the National
Railroad Adjustment Board under the Railway Labor Act, shall be paid by the Carrier and fifty percent (50%) by the Organizations.
The neutral shall make an on-the-ground investigation and inspection of the complaint in company with representatives of the Carrier and representatives of
the operating employees' organizations and shall make his decision in writing to the representatives of the parties within ten (10) days from the date of
completion of the inspection and investigation.
Section 18 - Pilots
Locomotives handled from the Mechanical Department's facilities to any point within switching limits or locomotives handled to the Mechanical Department's
facilities from any point within switching limits, by other than road or yard crews, where manually operated switches which are not located within the Mechanical
Department's facilities must be handled, shall be piloted by a yardman who shall be paid the yard foreman's rate of pay.
Section 19 - Bleeder Service
Bleeder service shall be retained to yardmen at Bellevue as provided for in present local agreement of November 8, 1952.
When independent bleeder assignment( s) are started in the vicinity of the hump, one of the independent bleeder assignments who start in the old yard as
provided in such agreement may be designated as a "floater" and work in both the old yard and the new yard. When the designated "floater" is working in the
new yard the other bleeder in the old yard may work in both the eastbound and the westbound sections of the old yard. The "floater" bleeder will be provided
transportation between the old yard and the vicinity of the hump when required to work in the new yard.
Bleeders may, in addition to bleeding air from cars, make cuts between cars, line switches. A yardman assigned as bleeder may be used to relieve a man on a
crew who has been relieved account of sickness, injury or other emergency until the man called to relieve the absent employee reports for the job without
additional compensation until relief reports on the job. This will not permit the use of such yard helpers to start a tour of duty or to finish a tour of duty with a
yard crew.
B. CHICAGO COORDINATION
Chicago Yard operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1
(A) The interested General Chairmen of the organization signatory hereto will be given not less than thirty (30) days' notice in writing of the Carrier's intent to
consolidate the separate facilities of the Merged Company at Chicago, Illinois, as provided for herein.
(B) The terms "yard crews" (yard assignments) and "yard service" in this Agreement mean. crews or individuals assigned to and performing yard, belt line and
transfer service thereof permissible under the respective schedule agreements.
Section 2 - ALLOCATION OF CREWS IN THE TERMINAL
(A) For the purpose of determining the equities of employees of the seniority districts affected by the consolidation of facilities at Chicago, Illinois, the Carrier
has furnished the General Chairmen signatory hereto the total yard engine hours operated and the total cars dispatched for the period January, 1961, to July,
1964, inclusive, and a list of the proposed initial yard crew assignments indicating the crew symbols, reporting and relieving points and reporting times,
contemplated for the beginning of the consolidated operation. Accordingly, the interested General Chairmen have decided upon the determined ratio for the
seniority districts involved, which is as follows:
50% former NKP employees
50% former Wabash employees
NOTE: For the purposes of this Agreement, former Wabash Chicago Terminal employees having an equity in the consolidated terminal will be referred to
as former Wabash employees. Former NKP - Ft. Wayne seniority district firemen and former NKP Chicago Terminal yardmen having an equity in the
consolidated terminal will be referred to as former NKP employees.
(B) The interested General Chairmen have decided upon the allocation of yard crew assignments to the seniority districts involved in the determined ration,
using the procedure set forth below in this Article 1 D.
(c) Prior to this Agreement being placed in effect, carrier will advise the local chairmen of former NKP and former Wabash roster men as to the crew
assignments, which will be made effective on the effective date of this agreement. These will be the assignments then in effect for
former NKP and for former Wabash employees as of the effective date of the consolidation, and this will constitute the initial allocation of crews or assignments
for the employees of each former carrier, subject to adjustment to establish the determined ratio of allocation in the following manner:
(I) If crews are increased, and one district is behind in its allocation percentage, crews will be allocated to the district short in its percentage until balance in the
determined ration under "A" is achieved. Thereafter, additional crews will be allocated to the former district in which the crew is assigned to start, subject to the
equity adjustment procedures of "D".
(2) If crews are to be decreased, and one .district is ahead in its allocation percentage, crews allocated to the district ahead in its percentage will be decreased
until balance in the determined ratio under "A" is achieved provided this can be done from allocated crews starting in the former district in which the reduction
in forces is to be made. If no crews are allocated to the district ahead in its percentage at the location where the crews are to be decreased, the reduction will
be made in crews allocated to the district behind in its percentage and a corresponding number of crews allocated to the employees of the other district
working on the same shift as the discontinued crews will be reallocated and assigned to the employees of the district entitled to same. The local chariman or
his or their designated representative of the employees of the former carrier losing the crew allocation under the foregoing provision of this subsection (b) will
be given an opportunity to designate the crew to be reallocated from the affected shift prior to the time the crew must be designated for selection or
assignment purposes to the employees eligible to bid. If the local chairman or his or their designated representative fails to exercise this option in time to make
it effective on the day the change is scheduled, the carrier will designate the crews to be reallocated consistent with the above-described procedure.
(3) In the event the Wabash roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the NKP roster will provide the man or men
necessary.
(4) When as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority the Wabash yard roster does not provide any man for a crew allocated to it under this
Appendix, that crew will always thereafter be allocated to the NKP roster, unless it should become necessary to reallocate a crew to the Wabash yard roster as
a result of a man returning to yard service after being absent. In no event will the current allocation of crews to the Wabash yard roster exceed the number
required to provide employment for the men in active service on the Wabash yard roster.
(5) When, as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority, there are no former Wabash employees assigned to an extra board protecting former
Wabash assignments, vacancies of former Wabash employees will be filled form the extra boards protecting former NKP vacancies except as provided herein.
(D) After reasonable balance in the determined ratio has been achieved pursuant to' Section 2, imbalance in allocation percentage of starts will be adjusted
each four (4) month period as follows:
( 1) The carrier will keep a record of all regular yard starts (excluding equity recovery assignments), separately for yard ground crews and firemen
assignments, which are in excess of the determined ratio, and will furnish such list as soon as possible after the 15th and last day of each month to the
General and Local Chairmen involved.
NOTE: Work train, pilot and hostling assignments, regular and extra are excluded for allocation purposes and will be manned by available employees from
the former territory in which the service originates.
(2) Before the end of each four (4) month checking period, beginning with the effective date of the coordination of the Chicago Terminal, the interested Local
Chairmen or their designated representatives will determine from the lists furnished by the Carrier as to whether or not an imbalance of thirty (30) or more
starts has developed or will develop in the determined ratio by the end of the current checking period.
(3) If it is determined that an imbalance of thirty (30) or more starts in the determined ratio has or will develop by the end of the checking period, a regular
assignment will be made available at the beginning of the next period from the debtor district to the district entitled to same which they may hold until the
accrued recovery shifts have been worked off. Recovery shifts not protected when available to former Wabash employees will be forfeited. If less than 30 shifts
are available for recovery at the beginning of the recovery check period, the imbalance will be carried over in the next checking period. In designating equity
recovery assignments, if the local chairmen or their designated representatives fail to name the recovery assignment or assignments in time for the change to
be made effective at the beginning of the checking period, the carrier will designate the recovery assignment for that period.
Section 3 - Seniority Lists and Applicable Schedule Rules
(A) ( 1) Schedule agreements in effect on the effective date of this Appendix on each
seniority district for filling vacancies will remain, in effect.
(2) Employees working in yard service in the consolidated terminal will work under the agreement rules in effect with their former carrier.
(3) Employees filling vacancies on crews allocated to employees of the other former carrier will take the conditions of the assignment they are filling with
respect to on and off duty location and starting time.
(B) Extra lists on each seniority district will continue to be adjusted in accordance with agreements and interpretations thereto in effect prior to the
consolidation of the terminal.
(C) Extra crews will be filled by men from the seniority district from which started.
(D) On and after the effective date of this Agreement, no men will be added to the Wabash Chicago Terminal yard roster.
Section 4 - Learning New Territory
An employee having an equity in the Chicago Terminal as of the effective date of this Agreement who by reason of the operation of the schedule agreement
and by this Agreement takes an assignment working in territory of the consolidated terminal with which he is not familiar will not be required to lose time for the
purpose of learning such territory. If yard service employees are used to qualify foreman of former Nickel Plate on territory of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken form the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified yardmen of former Nickel Plate will be used for this purpose.
Section 5 - Use of Employees
(A) In effecting the consolidations provided for in this Agreement, the consolidated facilities of the former carrier will be considered a terminal of the Merged
Company. (The term "former carrier" or "former carriers" as used in this Article refers to the NKP and Wabash.)
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(B) (1) Road and yard employees of the former NKP may be required to perform
services throughout the consolidated terminal in accordance with their respective Schedule Agreement in the same manner as though such consolidated
terminal was a terminal of their former carrier.
(2) Road and yard employees of the former Wabash may be required to perform services throughout the consolidated terminal in accordance with their
respective Schedule Agreement in the same manner as though such consolidated terminal was a terminal of their former carrier.
(c) Where crews of a former carrier perform service outside of switching limits in accordance with pre-existing agreements or understandings, crews of any
former carrier in the consolidated operation may be required to perform service covered in such agreements or understandings.
(D) (1) In the consolidated Chicago Terminal the following work may be performed
by road trainmen without additional compensation, except as otherwise provided for in the rules:
(a) Former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews may be
required to perform any services within the consolidated Chicago Terminal that they previously could be required to perform under existing Agreements and
Rules in their former yards in Chicago.
(b) In addition thereto, former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews may be required to yard their inbound trains \in any designated appropriate
point within the consolidated terminal, subject to the provisions of the final terminal delay rules and suitable lodging arrangements. Carrier may change
designated point as required.
(c) And, in addition, former Wabash road crews and former NKP road crews on outbound runs may be required to pick up their trains for departure from any
designated appropriate point within the consolidated terminal, subject to the provisions of the initial terminal delay rules. Carrier may change designated point
as required.
(E) Road and yard employees may be required to report and be relieved at designated points in the consolidated terminal, so long as such designated points
meet the requirements of the schedule agreements, interpretations and practices on the property.
(F) Insofar as it is practicable to do so, the allocation of crews will be made in such a manner as to result in crews of former NKP going on and off duty at
former NKP yards, and crews of former Wabash going on and off duty at former Wabash yards. These efforts will also extend to the allocation of work by tricks
in an equitable manner.
(G) Temporary vacancies on Wabash yard crews which cannot be filled at the straight time rate from the Wabash extra lists will be filled from the NKP extra
lists, except that if it would be necessary to fill the vacancy with an NKP extra man who would be entitled to the time and one half rate it will then be filled under
the applicable agreement by an available Wabash roster man employed at Chicago. It is understood that this provision will not be applicable when there are
Wabash yardmen on furlough.
Section 6 - Transportation
Due to the distances between the Calumet, the Landers Yards and the 47th Street Yards, an arbitrary of one hour, at the appropriate pro rata rate, will be paid
to each present extra yard crew employee who is sent to fill a vacancy in a yard other than that of his former seniority district, and to any yardman forced to a
regular assignment in a yard other than that of his former seniority district. This Section is not to apply to employees employed subsequent to December 8,
1971.
C. CLEVELAND COORDINATION
Cleveland yard operations, forces, and facilities of former Nickel Plate and former Wheeling and Lake Erie Districts will be unified and coordinated in
accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follows:
Section 1 - New Hires
No employees hired by former WLE District subsequent to August 1, 1971, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Cleveland.
Section 2 - Allocation
(A) All Cleveland yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former NKP employees 66-2/3%
Former WLE employees 33-1/3%
(B) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former NKP and former WLE, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the crew
assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former NKP and former WLE will be obtained through normal changes in the number of assignments brought about
by the demands of the service. For example - if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect, as at present, a percentage
inequity insofar as former NKP employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is changed by either
the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that in the application of this agreement it may, from time 'to time or for fixed
periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former NKP and other positions on the same crew to employees of
former WLE.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis by trainmen
assigned to such crews, the first 60day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former NKP desiring same and the following 30-day period to be
allocated to the senior trainman of former WLE. A record will be maintained and kept available for the use of authorized organization representatives of the
manning of foreman positions under this arrangement so that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is
established, later abolished and re-established, the manning of the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described.
Fireman positions of such crews will be manned on an alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained and kept
available for the use of authorized' organization representatives for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60-day and 30-day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and 30
working days.
(D) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above, an additional assignment is to be established at Cleveland Yards, it will be designated and bulletined
to employees of former NKP. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, an adjustment in crew allocations
will be made so as to more nearly arrive at the assignment percentage allocation as specified in Section 2(a). Further changes in assignments will be
accomplished in the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the percentages as set forth in Section 2(a).
(E) At such times as employees of former WLE do not accept positions allocated to them hereunder and bulletined to them NKP employees may bid to that
assignment under the same bulletin. It is understood, however, that employees of former WLE hired prior to August 1, 1971, may at any time thereafter obtain
such positions through the normal application bidding and displacement rules.
Section 3- Extra Assignments
Extra yard crews will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former NKP, be manned on an alternating basis, two extra crews by
employees of former NKP and one extra crew by employees of former WLE. .
When an extra yard crew is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former seniority district to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned
accordingly.
At the Cleveland Terminal only, extra yard crews will be advertised as regular assignments for WLE yardmen.
Section 4 - Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(A) The NKP schedule agreement will be applicable to all former NKP and WLE employees at Cleveland.
(B) It is understood, however, that when there are no employees who were hired prior to August 1, 1971, assigned to the extra boards at Cleveland protecting
vacancies on former WLE yard positions, vacancies on former WLE yard positions will be filled by employees of former NKP.
(c) Temporary vacancies on WLE yard crews which cannot be filled at the straight time rate from the WLE extra lists will be filled from the NKP extra lists,
except that if it would be necessary to fill the vacancy with a NKP extra man who would be entitled to the time and one-half rate it will then be filled under the
applicable agreement by an available WLE roster man employed at Cleveland. It is understood that this provision will not be operative at times when
employees hired prior to August 1, 1971, on former WLE are cut off the WLE extra or working lists at Cleveland.
(D) ( 1) Extra men from NKP extra lists hired prior to August 1, 1971, will be paid
one (1) hour at straight time rate when required to go to Campbell Road Yard to fill a vacancy of a WLE man laying off. It the vacancy is of sufficient duration to
require the assignment to be bulletined under the schedule rules applicable to WLE men, NKP extra men filling that vacancy while under bulletin will be paid
the one (1) hour allowance for each shift they fill that vacancy while it is under bulletin.
(2) Extra men from NKP extra lists hired prior to August 1, 1 971, will be paid one (1) hour at the straight time rate when required to go to Campbell Road Yard
to fill a WLE vacancy that is bulletined for reasons other than a man laying off. The payment provided for in this paragraph (2) will be made only to the NKP
extra men who fill the vacancy up to and including the first four (4) days such vacancy exists.
(3) In the application of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section to NKP extra men who fill vacancies which are bulletined, the allowance of one (1) hour provided
will be paid only to the NKP extra men required to go to Campbell Road Yard to fill such vacancy the first time the particular vacancy is bulletined, or re-
bulletined as provided for in Section 2(e).
Section 5 - Switching Limits
Cleveland yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the switching limits of
both the former NKP and WLE.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Yard crew starting and relieving points may be at any points presently considered as proper starting or relieving points on either former NKP or former WLE.
The points presently considered proper and used for this purpose are as follows:
Former NKP Former WLE
East 55th Street Campbell Road Yard
East 75th Street
East 40th Street - Northern Ohio Food Terminal Ivanhoe
East 23rd Street (B.D. Yard)
Section 7 - Road Trains
Road crews of former NKP and former WLE may go on and off duty and obtain and/ or set out their trains at locations presently used for such purposes within
the Cleveland switching limits, i.e., East 55th Street, East 75th Street and Campbell Road yards.
Section 8 -Work Train Service
Work train service in Cleveland switching limits will be performed exclusively by yard crews.
Section 9 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Cleveland Yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former WLE on territory of former NKP the employees used for
this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former NKP. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former NKP on territory
of former WLE, the employees used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified trainmen of former WLE.
Section 10 - Protection of Employees
The Agreement for Protection of Employees signed April 16, 1962, effective January la, 1962, shall apply to the employees protected thereby who are affected
by this agreement.
Section 11 - Special Understanding
(A) All brakemen and firemen hired on former WLE subsequent to October 16, 1964, and prior to the June 11, 1971 shall have their names placed in their
former WLE seniority order immediately following the youngest men on the seniority lists for their respective crafts on the Lake Erie Division, "C" District, of
former NKP. The employees whose names are to be so placed shall be restricted to those employees who have as of the date this agreement is executed
performed a majority of their service at or out of Campbell Road Yard at Cleveland, or who on this date maintain their legal residence within 35 miles of
Cleveland.
(B) Former WLE brakemen covered by Section 11 may at their own option exercise their NKP seniority in accordance with former NKP rules and practices
except:
1. A WLE brakeman will not be permitted to take the NKP extra list at Cleveland if his seniority permits him to hold a regular WLE position at Cleveland.
2. A WLE brakeman may become assigned to the NKP extra list at Cleveland when he can hold only the WLE extra list at Cleveland but in these circumstances
will not be permitted to return to the WLE extra list or to a regular WLE position for a period of at least 30 days unless cut off the NKP extra list.
The restriction included in Item 2 above will not be applicable if a WLE brakeman becomes assigned to the NKP extra list at a time when he cannot hold any
assignment, regular or extra, on the former WLE at Cleveland.
D. LAFAYETTE COORDINATION
Lafayette yard. operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated ill accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follow:
Section 1 - New Hires
No Peoria District employee hired by former Nickel Plate subsequent to December 20, 1969, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Lafayette.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) All Lafayette yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former Wabash employees 66-2/3%
Former NKP employees 33-1/3%
(b) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the
crew assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will be obtained through normal changes ill the number of assignments
brought about by the demands of the service. For example - if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect, as at present, a
percentage inequity ill so far as former Nickel Plate employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is
changed by either the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that ill the application of this agreement it may, from time
to time or for fixed periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former Wabash and other positions on the same
crew to employees of former Nickel Plate.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis as is by
trainmen assigned to such crews the first 60-day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former Wabash desiring same and the following 3_-day
period to be allocated to the trainman of former Nickel Plate if he desires same. A record will be maintained of the manning of foreman positions under this
arrangement so that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is established, later abolished and re-established
the manning of the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described. Fireman positions of such crews will be manned
on an alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60 and 30day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and
30 working days.
(d) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above an additional assignment is to be established at Lafayette Yards, it will be designated and bulletined to
employees of former Nickel Plate. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, a crew designated to former
Wabash will be abolished. Further changes in assignments will be accomplished in. the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the
percentages as set forth in Section 2(a).
(e) At such time as employees of former Nickel Plate are not, through normal operation of their schedule agreements, manning positions available to them
under the application of this agreement, such positions will be bulletined and assigned to employees of former Wabash. It is understood, however, that Peoria
District employees of former Nickel Plate hired prior to December 20, 1969, may at any time thereafter obtain such positions through the normal application of
former Nickel Plate bidding and displacement rules, including rules relating to the exercise of interchangeable seniority rights.
Section 3. Extra Assignments
Extra yard engines will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, be manned on an
alternating basis, four months by employees of former Wabash and two months by employees of former Nickel Plate.
When an extra yard engine is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former carrier to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned accordingly
regardless of whether the employees of former Wabash or former Nickel Plate are manning extra yard engines at the time.
Section 4 . Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(a) Schedule agreements applicable to former Wabash employees at Lafayette, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Wabash and to employees of former Wabash assigned to mixed crews as referred to in 2 (c) or 2 (e) above.
(b) Schedule agreements applicable to former Nickel Plate employees at Lafayette, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Nickel Plate and to employees of former Nickel Plate assigned to mixed crews as referred to ill 2( c) or 2( e) above. It is understood,
however, that when there are no Peoria District employees who were hired prior to December 20, 1969, assigned to the extra boards protecting vacancies on
former Nickel Plate positions, vacancies on former Nickel Plate will be filled by employees of former Wabash.
Section 5 – Switching Limits
Lafayette Yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the presently established switching limits of both the former Wabash and Nickel Plate.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Starting and relieving points will be continued as at present until adequate locker and washroom facilities are available at former Wabash Freight House for
employees of former Nickel Plate.
Section 7 - Work Train Service
Work train service in Lafayette Yards will be performed solely by yard crews. This does not include the territory of former Nickel Plate between station stakes
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Section 8 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Lafayette yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former Nickel Plate on territory. of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified trainmen holding rights on former Nickel Plate Peoria Division will be used for this purpose.
E. PERU COORDINATION
Peru yard operations, forces, and facilities will be unified and coordinated in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this agreement which follow:
Section 1 - New Hires
No IMC employee hired by former Nickel Plate subsequent to June 13, 1972, will have seniority rights to yard assignments at Peru.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) All Peru yard assignments will be allocated on the following basis:
Former Wabash employees 66-2/3%
Former NKP employees 33-1/3%
(b) The allocation of assignments will be maintained on the above percentage basis, insofar as it is arithmetically practicable to do so, by the designation and
bulletining of assignments to employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, it being understood, however, that no change will be made initially in the
crew assignments.
(c) Thereafter, the equity of employees of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will be obtained through normal changes in the number of assignments
brought about by the demands of the service. For example -- if the assignments operating as of the effective date of this agreement reflect a percentage
inequity insofar as former Wabash employees are concerned, the assignments will be permitted to continue in such manner until the number is changed by
either the addition or the abolishment of an assignment or assignments. It is understood that in the application of this agreement it may, from time to time or for
fixed periods of time, be necessary to advertise individual positions on a crew to employees of former Wabash and other positions on the same crew to
employees of former Nickel Plate.
Foreman positions on crews advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph will be manned on an alternating basis by trainmen
assigned to such crews, the first 60day period to be allocated to the senior trainmen of former Wabash desiring same and the following 30-day period to be
allocated to the trainman of former Nickel Plate if he desires same. A record will be maintained of the manning of foreman positions under this arrangement so
that if a crew advertised in accordance with the last sentence of the preceding paragraph is established, later abolished and re-established, the manning of
the foreman position may be continued on the alternating arrangement heretofore described. Fireman positions of such crews will be manned on an
alternating basis using the same 60-day - 30-day ratio and records will also be maintained for this purpose.
NOTE: The 60 and 30-day periods referred to herein are understood to mean 60 and 30 working days.
(d) If in the circumstances in (c), first paragraph, above an additional assignment is to be established at Peru Yards, it will be designated and bulletined to
employees of former Wabash. If in such circumstances the next change in assignments is brought about by an abolishment, a crew designated to former NKP
will be abolished. Further changes in assignments will be accomplished in the same manner so as to, as nearly as practicable, maintain the percentages as set
forth in Section 2(a).
(e) At such time as employees of former Nickel Plate are not, through normal operation of their schedule agreements, manning positions available to them
under the application of this agreement, such positions will be bulletined and assigned to employees of former Wabash. It is understood, however, that
employees of former Nickel Plate hired prior to June 13, 1972, may at any time thereafter obtain such positions through the normal application of former Nickel
Plate bidding and displacement rules, including rules relating to the exercise of interchangeable seniority rights.
Section 3 – Extra Assignments
Extra yard engines will, until assigned and advertised in accordance with schedule rules of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate, be manned on an
alternating basis, four months by employees of former Wabash and two months by employees of former Nickel Plate.
When an extra yard engine is operated a sufficient number of days and under the conditions requiring its advertisement as a regular assignment under the
schedule rules of the former carrier to whom the next regular yard crew is to be allocated under Section 2, it will be advertised and assigned accordingly
regardless of whether the employees of former Wabash or former Nickel Plate are manning extra yard engines at the time.
Section 4 – Schedule Rules Applicable - Filling of Vacancies
(a) Schedule agreements applicable to former Wabash employees at Peru, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews designated
as former Wabash and to employees of former Wabash assigned to mixed crews as referred to in 2(c) or 2(e) above.
(b) Schedule agreements applicable to former Nickel Plate employees at Peru, including rules relating to filling of vacancies, will apply to all yard crews
designated as former Nickel Plate and to employees of former Nickel Plate assigned to mixed crews as referred 'to in 2( c) or 2( e) above. It is understood,
however, that when there are no employees who were hired prior to June 13, 1972, assigned to the extra boards protecting vacancies on former Nickel Plate
positions, vacancies on former Nickel Plate will be filled by employees of former Wabash.
Section 5 - Switching Limits
Peru Yard crews may perform any and all yard service within the presently established switching limits of both the former Wabash and Nickel Plate and yard
crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will operate within the consolidated limits of Peru Yards as though such terminal was a terminal of their former
carrier.
Section 6 - On and Off Duty Points
Starting and relieving points of yard crews will be continued as at present until adequate locker and washroom facilities are available at former Wabash Benton
Street yard office for employees of former Nickel Plate.
Section 7 - Road Trains
Road crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate may operate within the consolidated limits of Peru yards as though such terminal was a terminal of their
former carrier. Road crews of former Wabash and former Nickel Plate will go on and off duty at Benton Street Yard Office. Road crews required to obtain
and/or leave their trains intact in former Nickel Plate yard will be transported between that yard and the Benton Street Yard Office.
It is understood that the designation of the Benton Street yard office as the. on and off duty point for road crews in intended as an initial designation and does
not imply that such on and off duty point might not be changed at some later date in accordance with applicable schedule rules and/or practices involving the
furnishing of washroom facilities, lockers, etc., for employees at designated on and off duty points.
It is also understood that road crews of former Nickel Plate will not be required to go on and off duty at Benton Street yard office until adequate locker and
washroom facilities are available for their use.
Section B - Work Train Service
Work train service in Peru Yards will be performed solely by yard crews.
Section 9 - Qualifying
Employees who are required under the application of this agreement to qualify in portions of Peru Yards with which they are not now familiar, will not be
required to do so on their own time. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former Nickel Plate on territory of former Wabash the employees
used for this purpose will be taken from the ranks of qualified yardmen of former Wabash. If yard service employees are used to qualify foremen of former
Wabash on territory of former Nickel Plate, qualified trainmen holding rights on former Nickel
Plate I.M.C. Division will be used for this purpose.
Section 10
This will confirm understanding reached this date concerning the Peru Consolidation Agreement, that in the event the number of yard assignments at Peru are
reduced to the extent that there is only one first trick assignment, the local chairmen will confer and attempt to work out some equitable arrangement to
allocate such assignment to firemen of former NKP and Wabash on an alternating basis so as to nearly as practicable divide the equity of the assignment on
the basis of the percentages set forth in Section 2(a). .
In the event the local chairmen are unable to agree, a conference will be arranged with the general chairmen in an attempt to resolve the issue.
F. TOLEDO COORDINATION
Section 1
Only men on the following rosters will be entitled to participate in the manning of yard crews in the Toledo Terminal: .
(a) Former Toledo NKP's Cloverleaf District Toledo Yard Prior rights Yardmen. Men on this roster will have no rights in any other yards or in road service after
the date of this agreement.
(b) Former Wabash Toledo to include only men who held seniority as yardmen as of October 15, 1964.
(c) Employees of the former NKP's W &LE District seniority roster which is hereinafter referred to as the W&LE roster. This roster will include men hired and
placed on Wabash roster subsequent to October 15, 1964, who will be dovetailed into the W&LE roster. No men will be added to either the Wabash or
Cloverleaf rosters at Toledo subsequent to the date this agreement is signed.
Section 2 - Allocation
(a) Yard crew assignments in the Toledo Terminal are allocated to the men on the three (3) seniority rosters involved in accordance with the following table:
Wabash roster's allocation will never exceed six crews. Cloverleaf roster's allocation will never exceed four crews. If the total number of crews exceeds 38, all
crews in excess of 38 will be manned from the W&LE roster. A regular relief crew is considered a crew in the above table.
(b) In the event the Cloverleaf roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the W&LE roster will provide the man, or men
necessary.
(c) In the event Wabash roster cannot provide all men required for a crew allocated to that roster, then the W&LE roster will provide the man, or men,
necessary.
(d) When as a result of attrition or the men's exercise of seniority either the Cloverleaf roster or the Wabash roster, referred to herein, does not provide any
man for a crew allocated to it under paragraph (a) of this Section, that crew will always thereafter be allocated to the W&LE roster, unless it should become
necessary to reallocate a crew to the W &LE roster, unless it should become necessary to reallocate a crew to the Cloverleaf or Wabash roster, as the case
may be, as a result of a man returning to yard service after being absent.
Section 3 - Positions
(a) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement so long as that roster has
men available to fill them.
(b) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to men on the Wabash roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement. so long as that roster has
men available to fill them.
(c) Positions and vacancies on crews allocated to or to be filled by a man or men on the W&LE roster will be filled pursuant to their schedule agreement.
Section 4 - Temporary vacancies/Extra crews
(a) Separate extra lists will be maintained for men on the Cloverleaf roster and for the men on the Wabash roster so long as the crews allocated to their
respective rosters do not provide those men with a regular assignment.
(b) Temporary vacancies for helpers on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf roster or to men on the Wabash roster which cannot be filled at the straight
time rate from the extra list for men on such roster to which the crew is allocated will be filled from the W&LE roster's Toledo extra list, except that if it would be
necessary to fill the vacancy with a W&LE roster man who would be entitled to the time and one-half rate it will then be filled under the applicable agreement by
a man from the roster to which the crew is allocated, if a man from that roster is available under the applicable agreement.
(c) Temporary vacancies for foreman on crews allocated to men on the Cloverleaf or the Wabash rosters will be filled in accordance with their schedule rules
provided the roster to which the crew is allocated can produce a foreman, otherwise the vacancy will be filled from men on the W&LE roster in accordance with
their schedule rules.
(d) In the manning of extra crews, positions on such crews 'Will be regarded as temporary vacancies and paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section will be
applicable. Rights to participate in manning extra crews will be governed by the following:
( 1) When there has been a reduction in force which results in either (or both) the Cloverleaf or the Wabash roster not having its (their) maximum allocation of
crews (four (4) and six (6) respectively) any extra crews worked in Toledo Terminal will be manned from the roster which would be entitled to the next crew in
the allocation table in Section 2(:1) to the extent that roster has a man, or men, available to man positions on the crew pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of
this Section.
(2) When both Cloverleaf and Wabash rosters have their maximum allocation' of crews assigned all extra crews will be manned by W&LE roster men.
Section 5
A crew allocated to the W&LE roster, including crews allocated to that roster as a result of attrition of men on either the Cloverleaf roster or the Wabash roster,
may be assigned to go on and off duty at any point in the Toledo Terminal at which yard crews may be assigned to go on and off duty under schedule rules
and may work anywhere within the switching limits for yard crews in the Toledo Terminal area.
Section 6
(a) Extra men from W &LE roster's extra list will be paid one (1) hour at straight time rate when required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street yards to fill a
vacancy of a man laying off. If the vacancy is of sufficient duration to require the assignment to be bulletined under the schedule rules applicable to men on
the roster to which that crew is allocated, W &LE extra men filling that vacancy while under bulletin will be paid the one (1) hour allowance for each shift they fill
that vacancy while it is under bulletin.
(b) Extra men from W &LE roster's extra list will be paid one (1) hour at the straight time yard rate when required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street yard to fill
a vacancy that is bulletined for reasons other than a man laying off. The payment provided for in this paragraph (b) will be made only to the W&LE extra men
who fill the vacancy up to and including the first four (4) days such vacancy exists.
(c) In the application of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section to W&LE roster extra men who fill vacancies which are bulletined the allowance of one (1) hour
provided will be paid only to the W&LE roster extra men required to go to Maumee or Sumner Street to fill such vacancy the first time the particular vacancy is
bulletined.
Section 7
(a) When there is no extra list for the Cloverleaf roster or for the Wabash roster the bulletin advertising a vacancy on a crew allocated to such roster will also
be posted at Toledo to W&LE roster men, and in the event no applications are received from the roster to which the crew is allocated the senior W&LE roster
man making application will be assigned.
(b) Bulletins advertising vacancies on yard assignments in the Toledo Terminal that are bulletined to men on the W&LE roster will be posted at all bulletin
points at Toledo for W&LE roster men for not less than a full seventy-two (72) hours and, unless otherwise agreed upon by the representatives of the men on
the W&LE roster and the Carrier, will expire at 9:00 a.m., insofar as men on W&LE roster are concerned.
Section 8
Men on Cloverleaf, Wabash and W&LE rosters will work in the consolidated Toledo Terminal under the rates of pay, rules and working conditions of their
respective schedule agreements, except as provided for in this agreement.
Section 9
Notwithstanding any agreement or understanding to the contrary, after this agreement is made effective any individual on the W&LE roster who held seniority
on that roster as of October 16, 1964, and who performed any service between January 10, 1962 and October 16, 1964, who is displaced as a result of a
reduction in the number of yard crews assigned on the Toledo Terminal who does not displace a man hired subsequent to March 2, 1966, will thereafter be
treated as occupying the position producing the greatest compensation which is held by a man hired subsequent to March 2, 1966, on which he could have
displaced when computing the amount of any protective allowance which may be due him under the Agreement for Protection of Employees effective January
10, 1962. This provision shall not apply to men who are displaced ore than 30 days after this agreement is made effective or who are displaced after
September 2, 1966, whichever occurs first.
Section 10
This agreement does not affect the nature of the work which may be required of road crews operated into and out of Toledo via the Delphos, Ft. Wayne and
Montpelier lines and men in road service will continue to work under their respective schedule agreements.
Section 11
(a) The order of selection of allocated crews at Maumee or Sumner Street between Cloverleaf and Wabash roster men shall be as follows: .
1st choice to Wabash roster
2nd choice to Cloverleaf roster
3rd choice to Wabash roster
4th choice to Cloverleaf roster
5th choice to Wabash roster
6th choice to Cloverleaf roster
7th choice to Wabash roster
8th choice to Cloverleaf roster
9th and 10th choices to Wabash roster
Rest days on Cloverleaf and Wabash allocated crews will not be combined to establish an individual regular relief assignment. So long as there are Cloverleaf
and Wabash roster men they will have preference to their allocated crews in accordance with the order of selection table in this paragraph.
(B) If the number of crew abolishment’s or the addition of crews deprives either the Cloverleaf or Wabash roster of crews they would otherwise acquire through
the exercise of the order of selection provided for in paragraph (a) of this Section it will then be recognized that a Local Chairman (or Chairmen) involved has
valid reason, if he so desires, to call for a new selection of crews.
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