From: Charlie Yura &lt;Cyura@smarttd769.org&gt;<br />Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:12 PM<br />Subject: Discipline Update<br />To: Dirk Sampson &lt;DSampson@smarttd769.org&gt;<br /><br /> <br />Brothers and Sisters,<br /> <br />Just another update on the type of discipline and dismissal cases that our office has received in the past few months so that you can make your members aware of the type of issues involved and the seriousness of these types of offenses.&nbsp; Please post and share this email with your members.<br /> <br />1 – Rule G violations.&nbsp;  We have received a number of Rule G cases, especially cases where employees are testing positive for “ALCOHOL” during random, reasonable suspicion and rule violation tests.&nbsp; Is a beer the night before -&nbsp; worth your job? Is a beer on your layover – worth your job?<br /> <br />It is also imperative for employees to realize that Amtrak has changed their policy when it comes to a Rule G waiver when a rules infraction has occurred.&nbsp;  Amtrak will NO longer offer a Rule G Bypass waiver (legal under our contract – although never enforced until recently) for Drug &amp; Alcohol infractions when and if the employee or his/her crew is involved in any other type of rule violation. For example, a conductor was recently fired for Rule G when his engineer went into a station stop without protection from the dispatcher.&nbsp; (Contract Clause – Prevention Program Companion Agreement Section 1c – unless “the incident giving rise to the Rule G charge did not involve significant rule violations other than Rule G.”)<br /> <br />2 – Sexual Discrimination cases. – Most of these cases involve co-workers, although not all.&nbsp; Unwanted sexual remarks, jokes, texts or gestures are NOT ACCEPTABLE IN THE WORKPLACE.&nbsp; Times have changed. Please remember, even if the person you are joking around has no issue with what you are saying or doing, some other employee may, so please be respectful of your all passengers and co-workers.<br /> <br />3 –Cell phones – enough is enough.&nbsp; Don’t use your personal cell phone on duty.&nbsp; Don’t use your company cell phone for any personal use. It’s that simple! Cell phone violations are Cardinal Rule violations.<br /> <br />Finally, our office has had several meetings with upper management who have emphatically stated that the main priorities of Amtrak’s new CEO Mr. Anderson are – CUSTOMER SERVICE, CUSTOMER SERVICE, CUSTOMER SERVICE!&nbsp; - A WORD TO THE WISE – TREAT THE PASSENGERS THE WAY YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED.&nbsp; <br /> <br />Fraternally,<br />Charlie<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Charlie M. Yura<br />Vice General Chairman, GO-769<br />SMART - Transportation Division<br />1515 Market Street, Suite 708<br />Philadelphia, PA 19102<br />Phone: 215-564-1750<br />Fax: 215-665-8196<br />