ITEM G: Switching Hormel Plant - Fremont (October 12, 1949)

Item - G
 
Switching Hormel Plant,
Fremont
 
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
between the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD
COMPANY
and
EMPLOYES OF SAID CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
AND ENGINEMEN
ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN
 
It is agreed  that all switching incidental to the operation of the George A. Hormel Packing Plant at Fremont, Nebraska, shall be performed on an alternating basis by employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, the Union Pacific Railroad  Company  and  the  Chicago  &  North  Western  Railway Company.
     
  1.  Employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company shall begin the alternating operations effective on the  date the additional Packing Plant is placed in operation or on the  elective  date of the operating contract  between  the railroads parties  hereto, whichever  first occurs.  Employes of the  Chicago,  Burlington  & Quincy Railroad Company to continue this operation for 14 consecutive months; thereupon the Chicago &  North  Western  Railway  Company  employes  shall  perform the joint service for a period of 31 consecutive months: following the expiration of the period allotted to the Chicago & North
Western Railway Company, employes of the Union Pacific Railroad Company shall perform said joint switching service for a period of  11  consecutive months;  the rotation to continue on this basis thereafter.                                         

2. The employes of the servicing company shall be required to perform all intra-plant switching in the interest of the three participating railroads and they shall receive and deliver can in the account of the other two railroads on tracks designated for that purpose.

3. As Exhibit 1, there is annexed hereto, and made a part hereof, sketch of the tracks which shall hereafter be considered joint tracks for purposes of this agreement The term "joint" tracks is intended to mean tracks that will be used by employes of the servicing company in the performance of joint service for the Packing Plant.

4. The execution of this agreement shall have no bearing on the disposition of the respective contentions or the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood pi Railroad Trainmen and the Chicago & North Western Railway Company, concerning the question as to whether the Packing Plant at Fremont, Nebraska is within or without established switching limits.

This agreement shall become effective in the manner outlined In Section 1 hereof, and shall continue in effect thereafter subject to the procedural provisions of the amended Railway Labor Act. For purposes of this provision, each organization shall be considered a separate party.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th day of October. 1949.