Jay L Schollmeyer
Local Chairman 1637
Portland, OR 97215
Email jay@jaysworks.com
  July 22, 2004

The following issues were raised at a meeting in Topeka on July 21, 2004. The results of the meeting are yet to be seen.

In attendance; Ray Stevens AVP, Brad Henry Crew Support Outbound, Bobbie Pechal Crew Support Inbound,
Bobbie Smith Crew Manager, JD Fitzgerald UTU and JL Schollmeyer UTU

 

v      Temporary Vacancies SP&S Road

Ø       Admin group will not refer to the agreed upon interpretations

Ø       Admin group will not research decisions, tells employee to call their Local Chairman.

Ø       System will not allow TVA movement when turn is at the away from home terminal

Ø       TVA must be made before the turn is first out or six (6) hours prior to the assigned call window/on duty time.

§         The 6 hour rule applies to regular assigned service only

§         TVA’s to unassigned pool service can be made anytime except when the turn is first out.

v      Temp to Vacation Vacancies SP&S Yard

Ø       Requires the request to be in writing and received by the Friday of the assignment.

Ø       No provision to make request in TSS

Ø       Requests must be faxed to Crew Support

Ø       Faxed requests are getting misplaced.

Ø       Admin group fails to award assignment.

Ø       After notifying employee admin group finds more requests (sic) and re-notifies employees. 

v      Paper Deadheads

Ø       Canvassing decision tables are bypassed to facilitate paper deadhead.

v       OE 5-2 Cycle Pool

Ø       No uniform handling.

Ø       Crew Support will call a set up turns or bypass regular man.

Ø       Apply an extra conductors rest to the turn from previous trip.

v      Immediate and Advanced Lay off

v      Road to Yard and Yard to Road movement

Ø       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.

Ø       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.

§         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

Ø       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

v      Pool regulation

Ø       Difficulty in contacting Admin group I would like to have email contact.

Ø       Turns added not getting bulletin promptly. 

v      Posting of job bulletins.