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Effective DOS (June 2026 bid month)

24.B.1.   [Membership]

The System Board of Adjustment shall consist of three (3) members, one selected by the Company, one selected by the Union, and a neutral arbitrator selected from a panel of at least thirteen (13) arbitrators, such panel to be hereafter agreed to by the parties hereto as specified in Paragraph E. below. By mutual agreement of the parties, the services of one of the arbitrators on said panel may be requested immediately for any case appealed to the Board. 

24.F.1.   [Schedule of Hearing Dates]

Cases shall be scheduled for hearing on eighty (80) days during the System Board calendar year. The hearings shall be scheduled during one week each month for a total of sixty (60) days. The additional twenty (20) days of hearings shall be scheduled during the year, five (5) days per quarter as agreed to by the parties. System Board hearings shall be held at the Company’s headquarters, unless otherwise agreed by the Board. If a scheduled arbitration or mediation day(s) is cancelled or postponed unilaterally, without good cause or settlement of the grievance(s), and before the hearing or mediation begins, the non-cancelling party shall have the right to require the same number of arbitration or mediation days, as applicable, be restored in the same System Board calendar year, to the extent practicable. Additional days of arbitration or mediation may be scheduled by the parties through mutual agreement.