National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement For the Period ...

Article 5(b) The Employer shall file with the Standing Seniority Committee a request forstaffing at any terminal, operating point or other facility at which the Employer has noexisting facility and is assigned off rail traffic after June 1, 1999 and retains such trafficfor six (6) months.Section 12.The provisions set forth in Sections 1 through 11 above shall be applicable to anemployer signatory to an agreement with reciprocal seniority transfer rights. Any and allmatters pertaining to transfer rights, if any, shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction ofthe National Joint Standing Seniority Committee in accordance with the procedures setforth in Article 7 of this Agreement.Section 13.In the event an Employer is hiring at a location, active employees of the Employer willbe permitted to transfer to the hiring location and keep his/her company seniority butwill be endtailed on the seniority list after additional help opportunities are exhausted.Section 1.Maintenance of StandardsARTICLE 6.(a) The Employer agrees, subject to the following provisions, that all conditionsof employment relating to wages, hours of work, overtime differentials and generalworking conditions shall be maintained at not less than the minimum standards in effectat the time of the signing of this Agreement, and the conditions of employment shall beimproved whenever specific provisions for improvement are made elsewhere in thisAgreement; providing, however, that such past practice shall be limited to those ineffect during the term of the immediately expired contract period. It is further agreedthat in the event a dispute arises concerning any such past practice, the Local Unionmust prove that such past practice was in effect.Oral testimony by an employee claiming a past practice, not accompanied bysubstantiating proofs or records existing at the time of the alleged past practice, shallnot be considered as presumptive proof that such past practice existed.(b) Individual Employers may, during the life of this Agreement, file with theappropriate Area Joint Arbitration Committee a request for review of those individualstandards and conditions claimed or practiced under this Article, which exceed theprovisions of this Agreement, Supplemental Agreements and approved Riders. The22