Notes from the Desk of the Local Chairman

Brothers and Sisters,

I cannot stress how important it is for each and everyone of you to grant your Local Chairman access to your timekeeping information.

Currently these are the screens in UP's CMTS System I cannot access without you ensuring permission box checked:

(1) Pay History Screen

(2) Time slip Inquiry Screen

(3) Employee Statistics - this includes information about Vacation and PL day qualifications and trip counts.

(4) Guarantee Screen

Obviously I need to have these screens in order to do research on time clams for our members.

With continuing changes to the CMTS System I am no longer granted access to this information without you checking the permission box.  My User ID is OTEG160

Please help me in helping you with your time claims by granting me this access.

Fraternally yours,

Brannon Childers

October 24, 2011

Brothers,

I need to know which engineers will be floating one week of their vacation by October 31, 2012.  I have put the vacation request forms in the Longview crew room by the popcorn machine.  I also put the new agreement about floating a week of your vacation in the crew room.  You can still have three weeks as single days, or you can float one week and have the other two weeks in single days.  The floater week will be taken no later than December 15, 2012, or as early as September.  Nothing has changed with the vacations except, I will be able to backfill single day vacations and opt for a floater week of single days.  This would be a good option for a younger engineer who uses  his scheduled vacations up at the beginning of the year.

This year I will be assigning vacation changes on a first call first served basis.  If you see a vacation week open and are the first person to call me or leave me a message you will get that week.  The way I changed vacations this year took days to fill the opening and had to call a lot of engineers to fill them in a seniority order.

Brannon Childers

LC BLET 834

Cell 903-738-4683