ARTICLE 13

INTERDIVISIONAL SERVICE

As used in this Article, the term interdivisional service includes interdivisional, interseniority district, intradivisional and/or intraseniority district service.

An individual Carrier may establish interdivisional service in freight service, subject to the following procedure.

A. NOTICE

An individual Carrier seeking to establish interdivisional service shall give at least twenty days’ written notice to the organization of its desire to establish service, specify the service it proposes to establish and the conditions, if any, which it proposes shall govern the establishment of such service.

B. CONDITIONS

Reasonable and practical conditions shall govern the establishment of the runs described, including but not limited to the following:

1. Runs shall be adequate for efficient operations and reasonable in regard to the miles run, hours on duty and in regard to other conditions of work.

2. All miles run in excess of the miles encompassed in the basic day shall be paid for at a rate calculated by dividing the basic daily rate of pay in effect on October 31, 1985 by the number of miles encompassed in the basic day as of that date. Car scale and weight-on-drivers additives will apply to mileage rates calculated in accordance with this provision.

3. When a crew is required to report for duty or is relieved from duty at a point other than the on and off duty points fixed for the service established hereunder, the Carrier shall authorize and provide suitable transportation for the crew.

NOTE: Suitable transportation includes Carrier owned or provided passenger carrying motor vehicles or taxi, but excludes other forms of public transportation.

4. On runs established hereunder crews will be allowed a $6.00 meal allowance after 4 hours at the away-from-home terminal and another $6.00 allowance after being held an additional 8 hours.

5. In order to expedite the movement of interdivisional runs, crews on runs of miles equal to or less than the number encompassed in the basic day will not stop to eat except in cases of emergency or unusual delays. For crews on longer runs, the Carrier shall determine the conditions under which such crews may stop to eat. When crews on such runs are not permitted to stop to eat, crew members shall be paid an allowance of $1.50 for the trip.

6. The foregoing provisions 1. through 5. do not preclude the parties from negotiating other terms and conditions of work.

C. PROCEDURE

Upon the serving of a notice under Paragraph A., the parties will discuss the details of operation and working conditions of the proposed runs during a period of 20 days following the date of the notice. If they are unable to agree, at the end of the 20-day period, with respect to runs which do not operate through a home terminal or home terminals of previously existing runs which are to be extended, such run or runs will be operated on a trial basis until completion of the procedures referred to in Paragraph D. This trial basis operation will not be applicable to runs which operate through home terminals.

D. ARBITRATION

1. In the event the Carrier and the organization cannot agree on the matter provided for in Paragraph A. and the other terms and conditions referred to in Paragraph B. above, the parties agree that such dispute shall be submitted to arbitration under the Railway Labor Act, as amended, within 30 days after arbitration is requested by the Carrier. The arbitration board shall be governed by the general and specific guidelines set forth in Paragraph B. above.

2. The Carrier and the organization mutually commit themselves to the expedited processing of negotiations concerning interdivisional runs, including those involving running through home terminals, and mutually commit themselves to request the prompt appointment by the National Mediation Board of an arbitrator when an agreement cannot be reached.

3. The decision of the arbitration board shall be final and binding upon both parties, except that the award shall not require the Carrier to establish interdivisional service in the particular territory involved in each such dispute but shall be accepted by the parties as the conditions which shall be met by the Carrier if and when such interdivisional service is established in that territory. Provided further, however, if Carrier elects not to put the award into effect, Carrier shall be deemed to have waived any right to renew the same request for a period of one year following the date of said award, except by consent of the organization party to said arbitration.

E. EXISTING INTERDIVISIONAL SERVICE

Interdivisional service in effect on the date of this Agreement is not affected by this Article.

F. CONSTRUCTION OF ARTICLE

The foregoing provisions are not intended to impose restriction with respect to establishing interdivisional service where restrictions did not exist prior to the date of this Article.

G. PROTECTION

The provisions of Article XIII of the January 27, 1972 Agreement (reproduced in Article 35.B. of this Agreement) shall apply to employees adversely affected by the application of this Article.

H. INDIVIDUAL ID SERVICE AGREEMENTS

The individual Interdivisional Service Agreements are reproduced in Appendix A of this Agreement.

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