Jay L Schollmeyer Local Chairman 1637 Portland, OR 97215 Email jay@jaysworks.com

·        Employee who do not place themselves within 48-hours will be places to the extra board. 

1996 National Agreement ARTICLE XII - DISPLACEMENT

Section 1 

(a) Where agreements that provide for the exercise of displacement rights within a shorter time period are not in effect, existing rules, excluding crew consist agreements, are amended to provide that an employee who has a displacement right on any position (including extra boards) within a terminal or within 30 miles of such employee's current reporting point, whichever is greater, must, from the time of proper notification under the applicable agreement or practice, exercise that displacement right within forty-eight (48) hours. 

(b) Failure of an employee to exercise displacement rights, as provided in (a) above, will result in said employee being assigned to the applicable extra board, seniority permitting. (The applicable extra board is the extra board protecting the assignment from which displaced.)

• Employees who have been on the bump board for over 48 hours and can not displace anyone in the employees home terminal are considered furloughed under Displacement Agreement dated September 14, 1998

•  Employee who displace a junior employee on an assigned extra board; the employee will be placed to a markup board (waiting turn) until the junior employee who is being displaced is tied up and removed from the extra board

• If an employee makes a seniority move per Rule 30 (2-hours prior to on duty time) or TV Rule (first out or six hours prior to the assigned call window/on duty time) the employee will be placed in waiting turn status (Markup board) while the displaced employee completes the trip.

 
1955 SP&S Rule 30 Displacement Rights.

 (d) A trainman wishing to displace another trainman in accordance with these rules must exercise such right two hours or more prior to the on duty time of trainman to be displaced.

 Temporary Vacancy Agreement

6) When a senior trainman marks to a temporary vacancy and displaces a junior trainman, he must do so before the turn is first out or six (6) hours prior to the assigned call window/on duty time.

Yard to Road Movements

Effective this date when a bulletin extra board position is added on the former SP&S road it will become effective immediately.

1.      Award 396 provides for employees to exercise their seniority and displace a junior employee provided the employee has been in yard service for 60-days.    

Clarification for extra board; the employee will be placed to a markup board (waiting turn) until the junior employee who is being displaced is tied up and removed from the extra board

2.      An employee working in yard service who have been displaced from road service can only return to road service by being awarded an assignment by bulletin or marking to an increased or vacant brakemen's extra board position.

3.      A yardman, who is displaced from yard service, can exercise their seniority to displace a trainman in a road service including bid bump on an open vacancy. (Per Award 396)

Employees who have been on the bump board for over 48 hours or furloughed may not exercise seniority and are under the provisions of recall under the Displacement Agreement dated September 14, 1998

4.      Employees cut from road service and cannot hold a permanent position in road service, and elects to remain in road service, he may displace the junior trainman who is filling a TV Rule vacancy for which such extra board is the source of supply.

Bid Bump (Road)

After Advising the Crew Desk of your intensions to Bid/Bump to an open position that is advertised by bulletin you must also submit a bid for the assignment.

Rule 30

Displacement Rights.

(a) A trainman losing his regular assignment by reason of its having been discontinued, or having it taken by a senior trainman, or his having been absent there for more than 30 days shall be entitled to take any run on the division held by a junior trainman, including those open by bulletin. Such trainman exercising his seniority onto an assignment open by bulletin must make written application therefor. A run will be considered discontinued when changed sufficiently to cause it to be re-bulletined.

Rule 27

Refusing or Vacating Runs.

Trainmen refusing a run open to their choice, or vacating a run, cannot thereafter claim the run refused or vacated, except that it again be vacated or in case they are thereafter deprived of a run, which they held.

A letter of understanding dated 12-5-75 clarified Rule 27.

In the event a trainman passes up a bulletined vacancy and is bid in by a junior trainman, such trainman with a bump coming cannot displace another junior trainman in the same assigned service. In other words, he would, under the above circumstances, be required to exercise his seniority onto some other assignment consistent with schedule rules.