Meet your Vice Locals
Hi. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Karl Joost, and I’m one of three of the vice local chairmen you’ve elected. My particular duties include taking care of yard issues, handling vacation changes (Road/Yard/Metra), and writing denied time claims for both road, yard and Metra, then progressing them to Labor Relations.
Courtney Smith handles all road issues, and Mason Lockett handles Metra issues. We are your primary line of defense when it comes to the carrier making aggressive moves and taking liberties with our contracts and agreements. WE NEED TO BE CONTACTED. If you all are not familiar with our names and cell numbers, GET FAMILIAR PLEASE. All info is posted on our website: https://www.smarttd577.com
That’s also a link you should copy and paste into your browser on your phones. More on the website later.
Call us with questions and concerns. We all work for Tom Bakr, Local Chairman, and will get him involved if we don’t know the answer or can’t get it resolved. Tom works for the GCA out of Topeka and will call HIS boss, Luke Eddington if he needs to. However, it all starts with you. You have got to get in contact with us. Not urgent enough for a phone call? Our email addresses are posted on the website as well. And finally, the website. We, 577, have EVERYTHING posted. All agreements, contracts and addendums are there for you to look at, from AWTS to Borrow Out agreements. The proper way to write claims, the list goes on and on. Odds are that the answer you seek is on the website.
Last word. You have all three of our names. Our numbers are posted. Contact us … my personal stance is that you can text or email me 24 hours…. But call only during decent hours unless you’re against a wall somewhere. Then you should call me whenever. Granted, my specialty is yard ops, so if I don’t know the answer, I will find it. Same with Courtney and Mason—- try to call them for things related to your divison. You elected us. So, work with us to try to fix things. Give us an opportunity to do our jobs. Stay Safe. -Karl J
