(SALT LAKE HUB SIDE LETTERS)
February 1, 1997
Side Letter No. 1
Gentlemen:
This refers to the handling of health and welfare benefits
for employees involved in the UP/SP merger.
In order to ensure appropriate health and welfare coverage
for affected employees, it is agreed that employees transferring from one
collective bargaining agreement to
another (i.e., DRGW/ SP West employees to UP Northern Idaho) may elect one of
the following options which must be exercised within thirty (30) days from the
notice of merger implementation:
(A) Elect to retain present coverage.
OR
(B) Elect to accept the health and welfare coverage applicable to the
territory to which transferred.
An employee failing to make an election shall be considered
as having retained option (A). A
health and welfare benefits election form, attached as Exhibit “A”, will be
furnished to employees who transfer so they can make an election.
Yours truly,
W.S. Hinckley
General Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
_______________________
_________________________
General Chairman UPED
General Chairman DRGW
_______________________
_________________________
General Chairman UPWR
General Chairman SP West
Exhibit “A”
HEALTH
AND WELFARE BENEFITS ELECTION FORM
In
order to insure appropriate health and welfare benefits are maintained for
affected employees as a result of the UP/SP merger, one of the following options
must be selected within (30) days from the date this form is received by
employees who transfer from one collective bargaining agreement to another:
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(A)
Elect to maintain present coverage.
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(B) Elect to accept the health and
welfare coverage applicable to the territory to which transferred.
An
employee failing to make an election within the above time frame shall be
considered as having retained present coverage under Option (A).
______________________
Employee Name
______________________
Social Security Number
_______________________
Craft
________________________
Location
MAIL
TO:
Joe
Cvetas
Union
Pacific Railroad Company
1416
Dodge Street, Room 332
Omaha,
Nebraska 68179
February 1, 1997
Side Letter No. 2
Gentlemen:
During
our negotiations we discussed ARTICLE 6 - LIFE INSURANCE
and ARTICLE 9 - DISABILITY INSURANCE of the September 1995
Agreement between Southern Pacific Lines and your Organization.
It was your position that coverages provided by the former agreement
should be preserved for the former Southern Pacific engineers covered by this
Implementing Agreement under the New York Dock protective conditions unless
extended by agreement.
This
will confirm that Carrier agreed that the premium payments required by agreement
would continue for those Southern Pacific engineers who are covered by this
implementing agreement and who are presently covered under those plans. These
benefits will be maintained for such employees for six years from the
implementation date of this agreement.
It
is understood this agreement is made without prejudice to the positions of
either party regarding whether or not such benefits are subject to preservation
under New York Dock and it will not be cited by any party in any other
negotiations or proceedings.
Yours truly,
W.S. Hinckley
General Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
_______________________
_________________________
General
Chairman
UPED
General Chairman DRGW
_______________________
_________________________
General
Chairman
UPWR
General Chairman SP West
February 1,1997
Side Letter No. 3
Gentlemen:
During
our negotiations we discussed ARTICLE 7 - VACATION of the September 1995
Agreement between Southern Pacific Lines and your Organization.
This
will reflect our understanding that those former Southern Pacific engineers who
are covered by this Implementing
Agreement and who are presently covered by the above agreement provision shall
be entitled to obtain the benefits of said ARTICLE, through December 31, 1997.
Thereafter, vacation benefits shall be as set forth in the controlling
agreement on the merged territory.
Yours truly,
W.S. Hinckley
General Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
_______________________
_________________________
General
Chairman
UPED
General Chairman DRGW
_______________________
_________________________
General
Chairman UPWR x
General Chairman SP West
February 1, 1997
Side Letter No. 4
Gentlemen:
During
the negotiations the BLE had many
Local Chairmen or their representatives in attendance. They listened to
the negotiations, readings of the different Sections of the agreement and
listened to the debate and explanations given for them.
The Carrier believes that as both Local Chairmen and as participants to
the negotiations that they can play an important role in assisting other
engineers in the decision making that will follow the merger implementation.
As such the Carrier proposed that when the first surplus of employees was
created that the BLE Local Chairman for each committee or his
designate (in writing) shall be the first persons placed on the protection
boards.
While
on these boards they will be placed on a hold status and will be required to be
available to answer employee questions, discuss merger integration issues with
local officers and help coordinate with CMS issues relating to the transfer of
employees from one zone to another or outside the Hub and the assignment of
employees to positions. In addition
they will be performing their normal and usual duties associated with the Union
Office they hold. While on this
hold status they will not be rotating on the board.
If they are required to relocate as a result of the merger or just learn
new trackage, time will be granted for the accomplishment of these events.
When there is no longer a surplus in a zone or the interim period ends
they will be released back to a position their seniority permits.
Yours truly,
W.S. Hinckley,
General Director Labor Relations
AGREED:
_____________________________
_____________________________
General
Chairman UPED
General Chairman DRGW
_____________________________
_______________________ Chairman UPWR General
Chairman SP West
February 1, 1997
Side
Letter No. 5
Gentlemen:
This
refers to Article II Section (I) of the Salt Lake Hub implementing agreement. Section (I) states that the parties will address the flow of
seniority in and/or out of the Hub during the interim period in a side letter.
In reviewing the various options available to the parties, the concern of
those General Chairmen who had seniority districts both inside and outside the
Hub and those General Chairmen who did not, the following was agreed to:
1.
If a prior right roster has a surplus,
engineers on that roster wishing to exercise seniority outside the Hub
during the interim period will be governed as follows:
a.
When the Carrier notifies the General Chairmen that there is a surplus on
the prior right roster it will notify employees of the number of engineers that
it will permit to exercise seniority outside the Hub on their old seniority
area.
b.
Engineers, in seniority order, will have ten days to exercise their
seniority and will relinquish all seniority in the Hub.
If an insufficient number do not voluntarily exercise their seniority, no
engineer will be forced under these side letter provisions, but the provisions
of the implementing agreement will govern.
2.
Since these seniority moves are voluntary and not required by the merger
they are not covered by the relocation provisions of the agreement and/or New
York Dock. They cannot create
relocation allowances for those who may be displaced.
Engineers who have New York Dock wage protection will retain that
protection, however, they will be treated as holding the highest rated
assignment they could hold in the Hub if higher than one they can hold in their
new area. Engineers displaced will
not receive wage protection as a result of these voluntary moves.
3.
Engineers will not be allowed to exercise seniority into the Hub.
4.
Upon termination of the interim period, seniority within the Salt Lake
Hub shall be finalized, with engineers holding seniority in only one seniority
district.
Should
this properly reflect what was agreed to in negotiations please sign below.
Yours
truly,
Agreed:
_____________________________ _____________________________
General
Chairman WR
General Chairman UPWR
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