ARTICLE 20

CALLING YARD CREWS

A. CALLING EXTRA BOARD EMPLOYEES

1. Extra or unassigned employees may work any five days in a work week and their days off need not be consecutive.

2. Extra yardmen who have a telephone, or live within one mile of the yard office, will be called when needed. Those who do not live within one mile of the yard office and do not have a telephone will not be called. It will be incumbent upon such employees to contact the Call Office and make themselves available for service. There will be no basis for claim on behalf of yardmen who do not live within one mile of the yard office and do not have a telephone.

3. The local official and the Local Chairperson will agree upon a calling time for employees to be called from the Extra Board. The extra employees will be required to protect the work at calling time. If an extra employee is needed after the agreed upon calling time and cannot be contacted promptly, he will not be considered as missing a call or entitled to a runaround for that call but will retain his standing on the Extra Board.

B. NOT CALLED IN ORDER

When an Extra Board yardman standing first out is not called in his turn through no fault of his own, he will be paid four hours at the rate of pay he would have earned and stand first out. If not called for service within the limit of eight hours, an additional four hours will be allowed and he will stand last out.

NOTE: See Paragraph A.2. An extra employee who does not live within calling distance or does not have a telephone will be deemed to be at fault if not used in his turn from the Extra Board and therefore will not be entitled to pay under this Article.

C. CALLED AND NOT USED

When extra yardmen are called and not used they will, provided they have reported for duty and are then relieved, be paid four hours at pro rata yard helper's rate and retain their place on the Extra Board. If used on any assignment starting to work at the time for which called, there will be no basis for claim under this rule. If held and then used on an assignment starting within two hours of the time required to first report, their time will commence at the time first required to report. They will be relieved with other members of the crew with which working. They will be paid for the same time as the crew with which they work plus advance time during which held at punitive rates.

This page last updated: March 02, 2005