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NU – Called and Not Used

NU CLAIM = Called and Not Used (sent home or call busted)

Claiming * hours pay due to being notified my call was busted. Called for train **L*** on **/**/** and was notified at (enter date and time notified) train had been cancelled. Article ** of the (BLET/SMART) Agreement states: (enter applicable agreement language. No need to type word for word. Get the specifics. Agreement number and how much you are due and why. Be sure to note if you called the crew dispatcher to be placed to the bottom of the board/pool and receive 8 hours pay with the date and time that you called.)

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Conductors

Article 27

Section 1:

Trainmen in pool service who are called and report and, for any reason other than their own acts,are released before leaving the terminal within three (3) hours after the time called to register on duty, they will be paid for four (4) hours and remain 1st out; if release after three hours from the time called to register on duty, they will be paid a minimum day’s wages in class of service for which called and be placed last-out; no pay shall be allowed if they are notified before leaving place of residence that they are not needed.

Section 2:

Yardmen or switch tenders who are required to report for duty and are not used will be allowed one day the same as though service was performed. when this involves extra men they will go to the foot of the list.

Section 3:

When a yardman or switch tender reports for duty on an assignment and finds that account of an error, and through no fault of his own, he was not notified or displacement or was not marked up on the assignment as requested, the senior yardman involved will be given the preference of working the assignment or relinquishing it to the junior yardman. If either case the yardman relieved from duty will be paid one day.

Engineers

Article 18

Section 1:

Engineers when called for a train, and the call is subsequently annulled, will be paid
according to class of serice called for, with a minimum of three (3) hours;
at pro rata rate. If in chain gang (pool freight) service, will stand first out.

Section 2:

When engineers are called and report and for any reason other than their own acts
do not go out, they will be allowed at the engieers’s option, four (4) hours
and remain first out or eight (8) hours and be marked last out. payment to
be made according to class of service and engine(s) called for, and marked last out.

Section 3:

Yard engineers who report and then are released will be allowed eight (8) hours.

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