BLET Division 5

Union meeting for March

tomorrow March 17 1030 am . Lunch following the meeting Hope to see you there

teamsters JC 42 Pomona

Sadie Hawkins forms due today if you want a bump please send completed form to lc@blet5.com

Brothers,

Tomorrow Tuesday Dec 16th is our annual Christmas meeting . The meeting will start at 10:30 am lunch following at Clearmans Northwoods Inn Covina. We will have BLET General Chairman Brian Carr, as Well as National Vice President Kevin Sexton in attendance. Please try and make it

Fraternally

Paulo

Brothers,

Please join us for our monthly meeting tomorrow Tuesday September 16 at 1030am

We will be discussing life without a brakeman, lunches on locals and our latest contract out for

ratification. General Chairman Brian Carr will be joining us via zoom to answer your questions

about the agreement.

Fraternally

Paulo

Brothers,

Please download this form and use the QR code whenever you cross protect. Jp016 re21 LA (yard jobs locals), Industry ,Gemco, or RE31 pool. we need this to be documented every time it happens It will be the only way to keep CMS accountable

Fraternally

Paulo

Brothers,

Union Pacific will be rolling out a Uber eats program starting Monday 07/28.The benefit will be a zero dollar delivery fee. Yermo re21 crews will receive this message in their portal tomorrow. this will be for all pools/work rest boards.

Please click on the link below

Brothers,

Please double check your messages for Securement site specific requirements SB #76 . It says all TE&Y must carry paper copy of these bulletin while on duty, so print it up because you know that’s the first thing Kevin Anderson and Kevin Garcia will ask for.

Fraternally

Paulo

Brothers

Yesterday we implemented the 6/2 -11/4 work rest boards. There are going to be growing pains by changing the way we’ve done things. Please bear with us and document and submit any issues you are having, also make sure you have standing bids for jobs/boards you want and delete what you don’t. I want to thank those of you who were able to go to the meeting . Im going to try and answer the most common questions.

1. you will not Qualify for holiday pay on the 11/4, which means they will not take your pl days in lieu of. the reason being is this is a work rest board not a extra board–6/2 boards Gemco and LA are still xb and will still qualify for holiday pay which means you will be docked pl days
2. you may bookend days on the 11/4 you can ask for a single lv day at the beginning of your 4 days off and at the end, which would give you 6 days off and your guarantee will not be treated. however you must not have any change of status it must be ok to lv. be aware if CMS calls you before the lv day lets says it scheduled at 0801 and they call you at 8, your cooked.
3. the 11-4 has a multiplier 1.3 so you can qualify for pl days
4. Bumps- the only way off the 11-4 is request a quarterly bump- 5 days before the end of the quarter (march 01, June 01, September 01, December 01) you must send a email to lc@blet5.com stating where your requesting to go. you may not bump back to the same pool to get better rest days
5. Guarantee- Guarantee is 6203.16 per half – based on 11 day half , a new daily rate will be established based on the 11 day half- 23 hour rest/reset period will not affect guarantee-bonus day(no layoffs,or taking rest) + 413.54 (15 day half) or + 387.69 (16 day half)
7. Cuts-when work groups are equal size cuts will be made reducing the junior engineer. when the groups are not equal size the junior man in the larger group will be reduced
8. Cross protect- if other boards are exhausted you must take the call to cross protect- no secondary on cross protect, because this is not a XB -The only secondary earnings splits left are co452 xe10, cx809 xe10.
9. Layoffs- will be in increments of 24 hours- you may mark up after a minimum of 12 hours
10. displacement- you have 3 hours from the first attempted contact to make a move to protect guarantee- bumped at AFHT you have 3 hours upon tie up at HT. also you have (24) twenty four hours to make a bump
11. Vacation- Engineers will start their weekly vacation on Sunday but will have the unrestricted ability to move vacation forward or backward 96 hours.* Engineers must notify CMS seven(7) days prior to start of scheduled vacation send to LC@blet5.com
12. Hold downs- old heading or taking a temp hd is eliminated on these 11/4 6/2 boards

Links – calendars, 11-4 agreement language please click 11-4.org

Please call or text with any questions

Fraternally

Paulo

Brothers,

Please send me your completed bid form with as many bids as there are people. 6 people on the board 6 bids! Im not going to guess what you want. If your the senior man so be it. we will force assign bids that have one bid and that spot has been taken.

We need these sheets by tomorrow 07/06

if you work cx809 xe10 send to lc@blet5.com (will be 6/2)

if you work co452 xe10 send to lc@blet5.com (will be 6/2)

if you work jp016 xe10/re21 send to lc@lcblet5.com (will be 11/4)

Again if I dont get a form, we will be force assign to the spot. if you work any of these boars and your in another local. you can send to your lc but I need a copy.

11-4.org

to pull calendars , and bid sheets please look at the calendar for the 2025 year starting in July to see what your work rotation will be

If you dont bid and currently work one of these pools/xb you will be force assigned. there will be no bumps. this is the general chairmans decision not mine.

https://www.11-4.org/bid-sheets

call or text with any questions

fraternally Paulo