GCOR TESTING???*UPDATED 05/11/10*

IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE WITH THE STUDY GUIDE INFO....AND ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE UP WEBSITE, CONTACT ONE OF THE OFFICERS TO HELP....

INCREASE IN REVENUE???*UPDATED *03/14/10*

NOT!!! THE RAILROAD DOES NOT SEE AN INCREASE "POSSIBLY" UNTIL 2011. TOYOTA IS CLOSING AT THE END OF MARCH ( THIS MONTH ) AND NEW ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE TAKING PLACE.

AUTOS WILL BE COMING BACK TO MILPITAS ( CALIBER-FREEMACK ) AND ANOTHER FACILITY FOR INBOUND TOYOTA'S IN BENICIA. IT'S HIT AND MISS ON THE JOB LOSS BETWEEN THE CLOSING OF TOYOTA, AND NEW BUSINESS WITH INBOUND SERVICES, SO BUMPING AND BOUNCING FROM ROAD TO YARDS IS INEVETABLE!

U.P. HAS BROUGHT BACK MANY AGREEMENT EMPLOYEES WHO WERE FURLOUGHED!

WATCH FOR TESTING IN THE OAKLAND AREA......AND SHEEEEEOP WILL BE HERE AS WELL!

MAKE CERTAIN YOU ARE PROTECTING THE POINT, AND CHECK ALL SWITCHES-AND PROTECT YOUR SHOVES!!!!!

IF YOU NEED TRAINING.....REQUEST IT!

BE SAFE!

DREADED 60 day rule!!! *UPDATED 11/14*

Switchman
For example, if you are working in the Warmsprings Yard, you are actually working a Localnot a Yardjob. The only Yardjobs are bulletined in Oakland and Ozol.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call and ask.
Roseville Hub Transfer Memorandum of Agreement.PDF
Attempt to Clarify.doc

FURLOUGHED INFO...THANK YOU ERIC WYATT!! ....UPDATED 12/20/08*

Health care may continue after furlough....... Getting laid off is the pits...... But there are some things you can do -- beyond applying to the Railroad Retirement Board for unemployment benefits -- to ease the financial strain. The following applies if you are covered under the NRC/UTU Health & Welfare Plan or the Railroad Employees' National Health & Welfare Plan: * If you are furloughed in December, your employee and dependent health-care coverage will continue through April 2009 -- for four months following the furlough. * Generally, the plan provides continued coverage through the fourth month following the month in which you last provided compensated service, or received vacation pay (provided the vacation pay was received prior to the date of your furlough). Thus, if you are furloughed in January, coverage would continue through May. * Some general committees may have local contract language that differs, and it is essential that you discuss your layoff with your local and/or general chairperson to make that determination. * Also, if you are not covered by the NRC/UTU Health & Welfare Plan, or the Railroad Employees' National Health& Welfare Plan, or are not sure if you are, you should also contact your local and/or general chairperson for more information. More information may be found in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) books for these plans under the heading, "Eligibility and Coverage." If you do not have a copy of the SPD, you may obtain one by calling the insurance company that administers your benefits (Aetna, Highmark BCBS or United HealthCare) at the toll-free phone number on your health-care ID card. Also provided in that section on "Eligibility and Coverage" is information on extended coverage (beyond four months) under the so-called COBRA option. This law permits you to purchase the same group coverage for the individuals in your family desiring such additional coverage. The payment rates are determined on a per-person basis (adult/children) and are subject to increase March 1, 2009. To obtain information on the payment rates, contact United HealthCare at (888) 445-4379. Questions may also be directed to the Membership Services Department at the UTU International, (216) 228-9400.

REGARDLESS OF LOCATION....PULL UP MANAGERS CIRCULARS DAILY!UPDATED 10/16/08

TCS IS THE PLACE TO PULL UP MANAGERS CIRCULARS-UNLESS MANAGEMENT HAS COPIES STAPLED ON WALLS AT ALL CIRC7'S. (There are locations where management has stapled circulars to walls!)

IN TCS YOU CAN PULL UP MANAGER CIRCULAR (I was trained back in 05 briefly how to....) HE CIRC7 Then, when the circulars come up, SW USE CIRCULAR# CIRC7

PLEASE STAY APRAISED OF ALL MANAGERS CIRCULARS.

LET'S DO OUR JOBS-100% RULES COMPLIANCE!

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CMTS HELP FOR BUMPED EMPLOYEES......... UPDATED 06/02/08

With the ending of another fiscal year-UP has begun cutting back-so if you find yourself bumped, relax, and while you are on the phone with CMS getting "Notified," ask them about the person bumping you. When they were "DISPLACED"-and if the 48 hour rule was followed. It is their job, you know! Then, you can check in CMTS-go to BIDS,then Seniority Eligibility, and when that screen comes up, drop down the appropriate box (local, road, yard, xtraboard). Fill in the craft, and circ7-hit enter, and the positions with less seniority than YOU will appear.

To find which boards and what jobs are in each Circ7, under Inquiries, then Job Inquiry, put in the Circ7, hit enter, and all the boards, and jobs in that Circ7 will appear. Figure out the board, then go to Board Inquiry and proceed to find out if you have more seniority over any of the crews. (drop down under -Display By-seniority)

Also, under Inquiry, Status Inquiry, you can enter a Circ7 and Status-LB, laid off bumped, and all those that have been bumped in that Circ7 will appear, with the time they were bumped-if CMS will not assist you in finding out if it was a "legal bump!" For a list of Circ7's in our HUB, check out our Locations and directions page-

IF ALL ELSE FAILS, AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH A UNION OFFICIAL, GO TO THE CONTACT US PAGE, TO EMAIL AN OFFICER.....OR GIVE PAUL KOMPERDA OR JASON WATTS A CALL.......................

THIS TOO SHALL PASS...............................

WARNING....WARNING.....JOB INSURANCE UPDATE!! UPDATED 03/20

Speaking from RECENT experience....and by the way, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, we might think the rules are there so that we can get a twelve hour day, or that Mr. so and so from ROSEVILLE needs his quota, I like the one about winning an ALL EXPENSES PAID vacation to Roseville-but most of the rules are in place because someone either got hurt, OR......wanted that trip, so beware of the Big White SUV's this week especially-just follow the rules-and you won't have to go through what I did learning about MY JOB INSURANCE!When you apply for job insurance, and there are a few out there.....UTU......LECMPA........you MUST state what you earn monthly. BE HONEST! BUT, you need to understand that if you are working a regular job, be it six day, five day, ....whatever, the claim is paid out in seven days. SOOOOOOO, if you say that you make 6,000 a month, and work a five day job, and are covered for $201.00 a day, they AVERAGE the total monthly wage, BASED ON A PAYSTUB with YEAR TO DATE.....so they can calculate how much you earned in the last year, and DIVIDE it into how many days you actually WORKED, to calculate what you actually MAKE A DAY......which leads me to BEG EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU-look at what you put down for your daily coverage-if you do not make WHAT YOU CLAIM-CHANGE IT! Correct it, because THE CLAIMS DEPARTMENT WILL!! Unfortuneatly not until you have a claim! Long story short-if the job you are working makes $189.00 a day-you can buy $180.00....or risk it, and buy $190.00 and see if they'll pay it. AND, if you only claim $60.00 or $100.00-CHANGE IT!!!! That won't even cover GAS MONEY!!!! If anyone would like information, because I finally DID get the FULL payment (the agent who sold me the policy-LECMPA) re-wrote my claim, AND they did direct deposit, which actually was nice-and now, my house, car, and bills, can all be ALMOST paid...........until next half-like I was saying, if you'd like to find out more, send me an email via the web-Bonnie Tyrrel..............and I can assist you with much,,,,,,much,..more!

WORK ORDER REPORTING!!! UPDATED 03/19

It has been brought to our attention that there have been some instances when work orders have not been completed. The managers are starting to charge members when this happens. There are some jobs that have never had to do a work order reporting/GUI, that are now required to. If in doubt, log into the ATCS system and look to see if you do in fact have a work order to complete. If you are not sure how to use the GUI, the help desk phone number is usually posted somewhere around the shanty, and the person on the other end is able to walk you through the whole thing.

We have also heard that the B60R, B61R and B62R in WS are going to be required to /IU cars in the TCS system that are spotted at Toyota. If you are not familiar with the TCS system this can be very confusing. We have been told that the GUI help desk can also help with this process. The manager in WS can also be called to assist in this, or maybe the Oakland Yard Master since it was supposed to be there job any way.

100% RULES COMPLIANCE!!! UPDATED 02/27

Maybe you've heard that UP is revamping the FTX program and coming out with a less severe disipline policy...we haven't seen it yet, have you? Regardless of when or if this new policy is implemented, we all must follow the rules. UP managers are always out testing, a few in particular seem to have taken it upon themselves to single-handedly try to break the all time record of employee's fired in the first quarter. I think they get an all expense paid trip to Roseville if they win, so you can understand their zeal. Follow the rules!!! Even if some of your work does not get completed. We all have to fight the urge to cut corners and do some things that may not be right, the only reward you will recieve for cutting corners will be a level if something goes wrong. We all live in UP's world while on property and we are all expected to live by their rules.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ALLEGEDLY MAKE A MISTAKE. UPDATED 02/27

1. There's no point in arguing, you may try explaining to the manager what actually happened versus what they thought they saw, but most times they won't let the facts get in the way of charging you. Try to keep it to a minimum, they could use it against you.

2. Follow their instructions regarding what they need you to do, I.E. fill out an incident report, take a drug/breathilizer test etc., just short of signing for the "alleged" offense.

3. Make notes to yourself about the situation, where you were, were they were, line of sight, time of day etc., even the most minute detail could be useful in the investigation.

4. Let your Local Chairman know about it all. At a reasonable hour would be preferred but in some cases you may feel the need to let them know immediatly.

5. JUST WAIT!!!! There are time limits for these things to take place. WAIT for your charge letter, don't start calling managers asking for it. Give them time to do their jobs. If you can't wait, call your LC, he will probably get it before you anyway. Sometimes cooler heads prevail after a couple of days and things get re-thought.

6. DO NOT BE PRESSURED BY THE MANAGERS TO SIGN FOR ANYTHING REGARDING THE ALLEGED INCIDENT. Notify your LC that managers have been in contact with you about the charges and are asking/demanding that you sign by a date they have given you. This is not proper procedure and they know it. Any deal they have to offer should be checked out by your LC.

SITUATION: You and your crew are diligently working, following the rules, all is well, your track lists are correct, the industries haven't changed their spotting requests, timekeeping paid your claims etc., as you come to a stop and start to step off the car your riding, the slack rolls out as your foot touches the ground and you just got off moving equipment. Suddenly you hear the screeching of tires and see the cloud of dust as the UP short bus tears through the rip in the space time continuum and the hockey equipment clad passengers bail out and come running up to you, more excited than school girls on prom night. "We've been watching you for three days and finally got you...eeerrrrr, we just happened by and noticed that you got off moving equipment. You know our hands are tied and we have to give you a 4C and pull you out of service" At this point you and the rest of your crew are loaded into the short bus and taken to your on-duty location/nearest precinct for the obligatory body cavity search etc.
What happens next is you are hauled into a room with the heater turned up to nuclear, and a locomotive battery with jumper cables attached to it sitting on the table and your chair sitting in a kiddie pool filled with water... Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. JUST BE PATIENT!!! (This is just my little attempt at humor but you probably figured that out when I said "timekeeping paid your claims")

Any similarity to actual people, places or events is strickly coincidental

FURLOUGH INFORMATION

It is important that furloughed employees know what rights they have and how they get back to work or recalled.

FURLOUGH INFO.PDF

STEP 1 LOG ONTO TE&Y PORTAL

STEP 2 CLICK OFF DUTY TAB

STEP 3 GO TO QUICK REFERENCES AND CLICK ON JOB AIDS

STEP 4 CLICK ON TWIC REGISTRATION

YOUR SUPERVISOR HAS A LIST OF EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY UNION PACIFIC AS REQUIRING A TWIC. IF YOU WORK AN ASSIGNMENT, OR COULD WORK AN ASSIGNMENT THAT SERVES ONE OF THE ABOVE LOCATIONS, CONTACT YOUR SUPERVISOR.

STANDING APPLICATION-BID MAINTENANCE UPDATED 2/7/09

It is each member's responsibility and their responsibility alone to maintain their standing applications/bids. If you had, for example 15 applications out on different jobs and the application you had prioritized at #6 gets picked up, applications 1-5 are still in effect, and applications 7-15, it is my understanding, are removed. If you are happy with the #6 job, you must remove any standing applications you still have or you may get another application picked up and end up on a job you would rather not have. Click on the links below for information on how to maintain your applications.

CMS is not very forgiving when a person gets their application picked up and then calls crying that they didn't put the application in to start with and that they don't want to be on the new job. Keep in mind, that per UP policy, no one but you should have your login/password. This is one of the many reasons why that policy is in place. I'm sure everyone is careful not to let anyone else know their info. Something else you might be able to try; call the western region bulletin clerk and ask them to add/remove applications for you, be careful though, chances are you will not be able to talk directly to a bulletin clerk and will probably have to leave a message. THAT IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL GET DONE!!!

CMTS WEB BID INFO.PDF

CMTS MAIN FRAME BID INFO.PDF

INCREASE IN REVENUE? *UPDATED 03/14/10*

EXTRA BOARD EMPLOYEE'S !!!! *UPDATED 11/16*