BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached in connection with the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo - Trinidad.
We have agreed that employees would be given a two-hour call for this service.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached in connection with the moving benefits that will be applicable to the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo Trinidad.
Moving benefits applicable to employees who relocate from Pueblo or Trinidad in connection with the establishment of this service will be as follows:
1. The benefits provided in Section 7 of Article IX of the Award of Arbitration Board No. 458.
2. In lieu of those benefits, a $20,000 lump sum payment upon proof of a change in residence, meaning a bona fide real estate transaction, either a purchase or a sale.
3. As an alternative, the company will grant an employee, otherwise eligible for moving benefits, a commuting allowance. Any Trinidad-based engineer taking pool turns or extra list slots at La Junta will receive, during the first three years of this operation, a commuting allowance of $72.91 per trip. These commuting allowance payments have nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of guarantee and will never be used for offset purposes. If an engineer elects to move after receiving a commuting allowance, the amount of the commuting allowance received by the engineer will be used to offset any monies that would be paid by the carrier under paragraphs 1 or 2 above.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached about vacation and personal leave day allocations in connection with the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo Trinidad.
In our discussions of this matter, I assured you that no employee in this service would lose his or her entitlement to a paid vacation or personal leave days as a result of being in this service. For La Junta, we agreed that the vacation system applicable to a particular person in this service would be determined by the seniority roster of the affected person. For Amarillo, we agreed that the vacation system applicable to a particular person in this service would be determined first, by the roster of the person in this service, or, if none, by the work location of that person on the prior December 1. In other words, a prior rights Trinidad employee, working at La Junta, would remain in the Trinidad vacation allocation. A post-merger employee working on a FWD-allocated turn at Amarillo would be in the FWD vacation allocation.
The personal leave day system applicable to a particular person in this service would be determined by former road affiliation.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached about the application of Section 21.4 of the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo Trinidad.
Since we have reached this agreement with unusual alacrity, and in the spirit of cooperation with which these negotiations were conducted, in this particular instance Section 21.4 will be reversed, so that it will read and be applied as follows: Payments made pursuant to this Section 21 are not duplicate time payments as contemplated by the 1986 Award of Arbitration Board No. 458.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
During our discussions about the interdivisional service runs between Denver La Junta, Trinidad Denver and La Junta Amarillo, Amarillo Trinidad, you have expressed a concern about the lack of open, available eating facilities at the away-from-home terminals of La Junta and Trinidad.
We are aware of your concern, and have been working with LJK, our lodging contractor, to rectify this situation. This issue will be addressed, and there will be such a facility at each of those locations prior to implementation.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 16, 2003
Mr. Austin Morrison, GC
Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers
Dear Mr. Morrison:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached in connection with the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo Trinidad.
For people working under the C&S and FWD schedules in this service, the references to engineers will also cover firemen.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
June 18, 2003
Mr. Austin Morrison, GC
Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers
Dear Mr. Morrison:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached in connection with the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo Trinidad.
For people working under the C&S and FWD schedules in this service, if a second deadhead in a calendar month is not necessitated by an emergency (as defined in Section 1.1) or activation-related (as provided in Sections 8.1.2 or 8.2), for each engineer holding seniority in engine or train service prior to November 1, 1985, pay for deadheading as an engineer separate and apart from service shall be a minimum of a basic day at the rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed; unless actual time consumed is greater, in which case it will be allowed instead, plus 50 cents per mile for all miles in excess of the basic day.
Note: For example, a pre-November 1, 1985 engineer who deadheads on a district of 200 miles in 10 hours shall be allowed a basic day (currently 130 miles), two hours at straight time for the time in excess of 8 hours (32.5 miles) and 37.5 overmiles at 50 cents per overmile (130 miles+32.5 miles+37.5 miles=200 miles).
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE
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BNSF
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WENDELL BELL |
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The Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway Company P.O. Box 961030 |
August 27, 2003
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Mr. Austin Morrison, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Mr. Pat Williams, GC Bhd. of Locomotive Engineers |
Gentlemen:
This letter will confirm an understanding reached in connection with the Memorandums of Agreement covering interdivisional service between Denver La Junta and Trinidad Denver and between La Junta Amarillo and Amarillo Trinidad.
Any trains originating or terminating at stations between the terminals of this service will be protected by extra lists and not by loop pool crews. Any trains running against the directional flow between Pueblo and La Junta and any trains traversing other routes will be protected by existing agreements and will not be considered as loop service. The only exception to this understanding will be the Comanche coal train, which will be considered as loop traffic; engineers handling that train will be allowed mileage in line with the example to Section 8.2.
Please indicate your acceptance of this understanding by signing this letter.
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Sincerely, (signed) Wendell Bell |
Accepted (signed) Austin Morrison
(signed) Pat Williams |
Cc: Mr. Steve Speagle, VP, BLE