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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:32:21 -0500
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Pete asked me to discuss step offs.

These were local agreements signed by a division Supt and the Condr and 
Trainmans local chairman. On some of them I've seen signatures by Q labor 
relations and the general chairman.

Here's how they worked in broad terms. The men on a pair of passenger trains 
would petition the union lodge to authorize the local chairman to negotiate 
with local officers a 
Agreement whereby the men could exchange positions on a leg of their trips to 
reduce deadheading and time away from home. The ones I'm familiar with were on 
the Aurora Div but as Pete mentioned they existed in many places where the 
point of crew supply was not at a terminal but somewhere along a run.

Aurora and Galesburg were the primary spots on the Aurora div. These would 
involve brakeman,flagman,Condrs,etc. I'm not aware of any by engineers. Though 
they may have existed.

Here's just a couple examples . The eastbound flagman on one Train steps off at 
Aurora and the flagman on a scheduled outbound later in the day at Chicago 
steps on and completes the run into Chicago. The guy stepping off remains on 
the time slip as if he goes to  Chicago. The guy doing the filling in is in 
full uniform and equipment and completes the job into the city w/o pay.
When this guy is coming back tomorrow the guy he relieved will step on for him 
and return the favor. The trains don't necessarily have to be the counterpart 
of each other. It's more a matter of timing at Aurora.

The goal is to reduce the deadheading for both between Aurora and Chicago.

A similar but much longer step off was routine on several runs at Galesburg. 
The eastbound Aurora Div trainman(based at the Galesburg lodge holding Aurora 
seniority) steps off at Galesburg after laying over at Burlington. He goes home 
around Galesburg and stays on the timeslip as if he is working to Chicago. A 
man steps on for him and works to Chicago in full uniform,etc but is not paid. 
He will later work his regular westbound trip from Chicago to Burlington, lay 
over and next day the other guy returns the favor by working for him to Chicago 
to protect his own westbound run.

Clearly the step offs made desirable jobs even sweeter by increasing time at 
home and reducing deadheading to protect assignments. The men policed these 
step offs religiously and to my knowledge mgmt never had issues with crews 
missing assignments. 

If trains were running very late to the point the guy doing the filling in 
couldn't get to Chicago in time doing the step on then he had to find another 
way to protect his assignment and the guy working east had to protect his own 
assignment and dead head back to Galesburg from Chicago as best he could.

Leo Phillipp


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