AGREEMENT

Between

THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN AND SANTA FE RAILWAY
COMPANY

and

THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS

EXTRA BOARD(S) WORK/REST CYCLE PROGRAM
10/3/00

This Agreement creates a scheduled work/rest cycle extra board for engineers assigned to the Vancouver Engineer’s Extra Board as follows:

IT IS AGREED:

1. On the effective date of this Agreement, employees assigned to the engineer’s extra board will be assigned to work/rest cycles by the Carrier at the Carrier’s sole discretion. A work/rest cycle is defined as a predetermined number of consecutive working/available days (work cycle) followed by a number of consecutive rest days (rest cycle). A rest cycle is defined as a predetermined number of consecutive days during which an employee can be absent from work. The ratio of working/available days to rest days for this board shall be 7 work/available days to 3 rest days.

2. Beginning 24 hours before the start of a rest cycle, engineers who are scheduled to begin a rest cycle will be used, when feasible pursuant to the Carrier’s business needs, on assignments that are scheduled to tie up at the home terminal.

2.1 Beginning 24 hours before the beginning of a rest cycle, an engineer who is not first out on the engineer’s extra board may be called for service described in paragraph 2 of this Agreement ahead of other engineers on this extra board. When an engineer on this extra board becomes first out, he may, within the final 24 hours before the beginning of a rest cycle, be run around by engineers following that employee on the extra board if it is determined by Crew Support that the first-out engineer could be used in service described in paragraph 2 of this Agreement at a later time but before the expiration of the final 24 hours of his work cycle. Once the engineer being held at first out is run around by a following engineer, the first-out engineer may only be used in service described in paragraph 2 of this Agreement and may not be used in regular service. When engineers are used as described in this paragraph, no engineer will have any claim for being run around.

3. An engineer on this work/rest extra board will be automatically laid off from this work/rest board during his assigned rest cycle and automatically marked up upon expiration of his rest cycle. Rest cycles will begin at 7:00 a.m. or upon tie up from previous duty, whichever is later. Engineers may return to service before the expiration of the rest cycle after expiration of 12 hours from the start of the rest cycle or tie up from last trip, whichever is later, if desired, by verbally notifying Crew Support and marking up.

3.1 An engineer beginning his work cycle will be available to be called for assignments that begin on or after the 7:00 a.m. work cycle time. The latest on-duty time will be one minute before the end of the individual employee’s work cycle

3.2 An engineer who desires to continue working through all or part of his rest cycle must notify Crew Support of his desire to work through his rest cycle not less than 12 hours in advance of the scheduled start time of his rest cycle. The engineer who notifies Crew Support of his desire to work during all or part of his rest cycle must be available to be called to work during the time specified in his request..

4. The computation of guarantee for an engineer who is automatically laid off at the beginning of his rest cycle or tie up from previous duty will be governed by the existing extra board agreement at this location.

5. Layoffs that begin and end during an employee’s work cycle will be observed in 24-hour increments with the employee being automatically marked up.

6. An engineer who lays off completely within his assigned rest cycle(s) and stays marked up during his assigned work cycle, will not be considered to be in violation of any attendance guidelines or policies then in effect, regardless of the number of weekend or total days absent.

7. Engineers exercising displacement rights onto this extra board must displace the junior engineer and will assume the work/rest cycle of the employee or position to which they displace.

8. In recognition that this is a trial program, issues and grievances related to this Agreement should be immediately brought to the attention of the appropriate General Chairman. The subject matter of the issues and grievances will be handled in an expeditious manner with Labor Relations. Either party may call a review meeting to cover specific problems that may arise.

9. Employees who hold positions on this work/rest cycle extra board will be allowed to float single vacation days on any day of the rest cycle, regardless of the number of engineers on vacation at that time.

10. This Agreement is designed to provide scheduled time off for extra board employees and meet the needs of service without increasing the economic factors involved.

11. This Agreement may be cancelled by either party serving ten days’ written notice on the other party.

12. This Agreement only modifies existing agreements to the extent set forth, and all other schedule rules, agreements and/or other rights remain in effect.

13. Any existing extra board rest cycle program agreement applicable to this extra board is cancelled simultaneously with the effective date of this Agreement.

 

This Agreement will become effective on      January 16 2001              

Signed at Ft. Worth this__8th____day of    December, 2000___________

FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF                                                             FOR THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS:                                                                 AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY:

MW Geiger Jr. (S)                                                                GA Smallwood   (S)  
General Chairman-BLE                                                                             Assistant Vice President-Labor Relations