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RULE 116.
MILEAGE REGULATIONS.
(a) When from any cause it becomes necessary to
reduce the number of engineers on the engineers' working lists on any seniority
district, those taken off may, if they so elect displace any fireman their
junior on that seniority district under the following conditions:
(b) That no
reductions will be made so long as those in assigned or extra passenger service
are earning the equivalent of 4000 miles per month; in assigned, pooled or chain
gang freight, or other service paying freight rates, are averaging the
equivalent of 3200 miles per month. That when reductions are made they shall be
in reverse order of seniority.
(c) When
engineers are laid off on account of reduction in service, they will retain all
seniority rights provided they return to actual service within thirty (30) days
from the date their services are required. Reduced men will be required to keep the
Superintendent's Office informed as to their whereabouts at all times, and they
shall be ordered to report in the order of their seniority. Suspended men
returning to service will be furnished necessary transportation over this
Company's lines to point of employment.
(d) Engineers
taken off under this rule shall be returned to service as engineers in the order
of their seniority as engineers, and as soon as it can be shown that engineers
in assigned or extra passenger service can earn the equivalent of 4800 miles per
month, in assigned, pooled, chain gang or other regular service paying freight
rates the equivalent of 3800 miles per month.
(e) In the
regulation of passenger or other assigned service, sufficient men will be
assigned to keep the mileage or equivalent thereof within the limitations of
4000 and 4800 miles for passenger service, and 3200 and 3800 miles for other
regular service as provided herein. If in any service additional assignments
would reduce earnings below these limits, regulations will be affected by
requiring the regular assigned man or men to lay off when the equivalent of 4800
miles in passenger or 3800 miles in other regular service has been reached.
As an exception
to the foregoing, an engineer assigned to Interdivisional pool Service, who has
accumulated 3800 miles in his checking period, and his pool turn will depart his
home terminal prior to his checking date, may, nonetheless, his, work his
assignment; provided, however, that the over-miles will be carried over into his
next checking period, making in reality a sixty (60 day checking period rather
than the normal thirty (30) day. Upon attaining maximum mileage of 7600 miles
for the sixty (60) day period, he must be relieved, except as provided in
Section (n).
(f) On road extra
lists maintained to protect passenger service only, a sufficient number of
engineers will he maintained to keep the average mileage or equivalent thereof
between 4000 and 4800 miles per month.
On other road
extra lists, a sufficient number of engineers will be maintained to keep the
average mileage or equivalent thereof between 3000 and 3800 miles per month.
When road
extra lists (other than passenger) are increased or reduced, adjustments shall
be made by placing on the extra list or taking from the extra list a sufficient
number of engineers to bring the average miles per month nearest 3400 miles.
(g) Engineers
used in both freight and passenger service will be permitted to make the
equivalent of 3800 miles in freight service. Passenger miles will be equated to
freight miles on the basis of 1 2 miles passenger
equaling one mile freight. Freight miles will be equated to passenger miles on
basis of one mile freight equaling 1 2 miles passenger. .
(h) In assigned
yard service, regulation will be made by requiring each regularly assigned
engineer to lay off when he has earned the equivalent of 35 days per month.
(i) In extra
yard service a sufficient number of engineers will be maintained to keep the
average earnings between 26 and 35 days per month; provided that when men are
cut off the working list and it is shown that engineers in yard service are
averaging the equivalent of 31 days per month, engineers will be returned to
service if the addition will not reduce the average earnings below 26 days per
month.
(j) In regulating
working list in respective classes of service, each list will be handled
separately.
(k) Pool freight
lists shall be checked on a specified day and time each week, and, where
necessary, adjusted on the basis of the average miles during the preceding
fourteen (14) days.
(l) in unusual or
emergency situations additional engineers may be added to the extra lists to
meet service requirements, and when such unusual or emergency conditions cease
to exist the men added will be promptly taken off.
(m) Statement of
mileage made by engineers in all classes of service shall be furnished the
regularly constituted committee on completion of payrolls for each semi-monthly
pay period.
The company shall
supply local chairman with a statement showing the name of each engineer who
exceeds his maximum miles
(n) lf any
engineer exceeds his maximum miles or days in any thirty (30) day working
period, the excess miles or days will be charged to his mileage or days in the
following working period. This will not apply when all demoted engineers have
been returned to the engineers' working lists.
The working
period of each employee as provided herein shall be a period of one month
starting with the date on which he was employed. (modified to the day of
the month of your birthday.)
EXAMPLE An engineer was
born on September 17th. His checking period shall begin on the 17th day
of each month.
An engineer who
cannot be released account attaining his maximum miles in two consecutive
checking periods shall not be charged with such excess miles in the third
checking period.
EXAMPLE An engineer exceeds
his maximum miles account shortage of men in his checking period ending October
15th. Such excess miles are charged to his checking period which ends November
15th. If he exceeds his maximum miles in the checking period which ends November
15th account shortage of men such excess miles shall not be carried over and
charged to his checking period which ends December 15th.
(o) An extra
engineer who is absent from service to comply with the mileage regulations shall
not, except in emergency, return to the extra board until 12:01 AM of the day on
which his new checking period begins.
(p) In the
regulation of mileage neither the minimum nor the maximum is guaranteed.
(q) Officers of
the company and designated representatives of the Brotherhood will cooperate in
regulating working lists and extra boards of engineers in such manner that the
mileage accumulated shall be maintained within the limitations provided for
herein.
(r) Engineers
will be required to register each trip the TOTAL number of miles made by them up
to the time of registry each day or trip when final registry is made. It is
understood that no penalty whatsoever attaches to the company with respect to
this arrangement.
Any engineer who
fails to register his accumulated mileage at the completion of each trip, into
his home terminal, will not be entitled to his turn out. Engineers from the
extra lists protecting the assignment of an engineer who is off for miles, will
be released upon completion of the trip into home terminal point following end
of assigned engineer's checking period. The assigned engineer must protect his
run the first day it works following his checking period unless granted a leave
of absence.
(s) Except as
otherwise provided, any engineer who intentionally exceeds the maximum miles set
forth herein or other agreement between the Brotherhood and the Company, in any
class of service or maximum days per month in yard service, will be penalized
two (2) miles for each mile in excess of the maximum set forth for the class of
service. The two (2) for one penalty will be applied to the miles in the
succeeding checking period. For example:
An engineer who
intentionally exceeds his 3800 maximum miles in freight service by 300 miles
during his checking period, will be taken out of service when he has attained
3200 freight miles in his succeeding checking period.
An engineer who
has maintained his maximum miles and cannot be released by the Company account
shortage of men shall not be penalized as herein provided. In such circumstances
the Crew Dispatcher will furnish tie involved engineer a written statement to
that effect for his presentation to the Local Chairman, provided an engineer who
applies for relief must be relieved before another engineer is relieved upon
attaining maximum miles.
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