II. Seniority and Work Consolidation

To achieve the work efficiencies and allocation of forces that are necessary to make the merged Carrier operate efficiently as a unified system, an adequate supply of forces shall be relocated from locations where assignments are abolished to locations where new assignments are established.

The following seniority consolidations will be made:

A
A new seniority district will be formed and master Conductor, Brakeman, Switchman and Firemen Seniority Rosters, UP/UTU Salina Hub Zone 300 Merged Roster, will be created for the employees from the UPED Oakley pool relocated to Salina, (up to eight conductors from Kansas City) and all Salina employees and MPUL Hoisington and Council Grove Rosters assigned to the Salina Hub on April 21, 1997. The new rosters will be created as follows:

1. Switchmen/brakemen placed on these rosters will be dovetailed based upon the employee's current seniority date in each craft. Conductors placed on these rosters will be dovetailed based on the employee's actual date in the craft. If this process results in employees having identical seniority dates, seniority will be determined by the employee's current hire date with the Carrier.
2. All employees placed on the rosters may work all assignments protected by the roster in accordance with their seniority and the provisions set forth in this Agreement.
3. New employees hired and placed on the new rosters on or after the effective date of this Agreement, will have no prior rights but will have roster seniority rights in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Agreement. Employees who will be working in engine service who do not previously have a Zone 100 trainman date or MPUL trainman date will be placed on the bottom of the appropriate Zone 300 roster in the same order as they stand on the engine service roster covering this territory.

B
Employees will be treated for vacation and payment of arbitraries as though all their service on their original railroad had been performed on the merged railroad. Employees assigned to the Salina Hub seniority roster at implementation shall have entry rate provisions waived and employees hired/promoted after the effective date of this Agreement shall be subject to National Agreement rate progression provisions.

​C
T & Y employees placed on the Salina Hub Zone 300 Merged Roster shall relinquish all seniority outside the Hub upon implementation of this Agreement and all seniority inside the Hub held by employees outside the Hub shall be eliminated. All employees promoted to engine service after the effective date of this agreement shall only have seniority in that class of service on the appropriate UPED roster.