Tulsa Maintenance Base (TULE) and Tulsa Airport (TUL), the combined stations known as 1TU are a one station set which means that any open positions for Title 1 M&R and Title V Stores will be filled in accordance with the Tulsa shop to shop transfer memorandum. Therefore, when the Tulsa Line has an opening it will be posted as a shop to shop transfer within Tulsa before a 12L from another station is placed in the TUL open position. Title III Fleet Service continue to use the 12L transfer list that is cleared out every January and June; but will be transferred within the one station set before any others. The one station set also applies to 12M upgrades as stated below in the actual Maintenance and related agreement.
ARTICLE 46 – ONE STATION AGREEMENTS
(d) Non-Bid Vacancies
(1) When a non-bid vacancy arises within the one station set, requests for lateral reassignment between its stations will be honored before transfer requests from
stations outside of the one station set are considered, and before new employees are hired. An employee wishing to be reassigned should file a written request for such reassignment with his supervisor. All requests will be valid until the following January 1st and July 1st. Each January 1st and July 1st, a request for reassignment not submitted within the preceding thirty (30) calendar days will be voided, and it will be necessary for a new request to be submitted. Under this procedure, the Company will not require, as a condition of being eligible to request reassignment, that an employee have completed six (6) months of service in his current job; provided, that an employee will normally (except as set forth in the next sentence) be required to have completed his probationary period before being eligible to request such reassignment from one station to the other. It is agreed that the Company will recognize an approved (Union and Company) six (6) month waiting requirement waiver, if the Company is anticipating hiring off the street at the station or location.
(2) Selection to fill a vacancy will be made on the basis of the most senior qualified employee in the same status requesting the reassignment. Upon award, the employee will be reassigned within fifteen (15) calendar days, unless agreed to otherwise by the employee. Employees on medical restrictions are not eligible for reassignment to a vacancy under Article 46(d), unless qualified to perform all duties of the vacancy.
(3) If there are no requests, or an insufficient number of requests to fill all vacancies, requests for transfer on file from stations outside the one station set, as provided in Article 12(l), will be honored.
(e) Reclassification
If an employee is eligible for upgrading from one classification to another, in accordance with Article 12(m), this will be done within the one station set prior to offering the upgrade opportunity to an employee from a station outside of the one station set.