RULE 58: CALLS-CALLING LIMITS

RULE 58 -

CALLS - CALLING LIMITS

(a) Regularly assigned yardmen will report for jobs without being called. Yardmen subject to call will be called one and one - half hours, as nearly as practicable, before time required to report for duty. Calling limit is one and one - half miles except where men are called by telephone, that limit will not apply. The caller will be provided with a book containing description of job called for and time on duty; and yardman called will write in time actually called and his name. If called by telephone, caller will make that record.

(b) Called and Not Used: Yardmen called for any run or job and who report to protect the job called for shall be paid one day's pay, whether work is furnished the entire time or not, except in cases of insubordination or sickness, when they will be paid for actual time worked, provided, however, that yardmen incapacitated as a result of an injury received while working will be paid not less than a basic day. Yardmen called while working on one shift to double on a succeeding shift will not be considered as called if call is cancelled prior to tie - up. Tim of yardmen called to relieve those laying off before shift is completed shall commence at time for which called, and they will be paid not less than a basic day for such service.

(c) At Albina, Argo and Hinkle when an extra yardman is called for service from the yard extra board and after reporting for duty it is later found that a vacancy does not exist, the extra employee will be relieved but will not be marked on the extra board until the expiration of eight hours from the on - duty time of the shift for which called.