Hey motor mouth, yeah LMOUs can be changed, but its when they can be changed, something you forgot to put in your many words under many names. Article 30 happens when the new contact becomes in effect. So if your the steward you claim to be, the you should know when the Local Negotiations can be opened.

So if the excessing comes before the Local Negotiations are signed off, and the LMOU does not spell out the sections as many across the nation don't, the whole damn tour in that facility maybe screwed.

If the LMOU does have it broken down by sections, then the excessing is by section, not by tour or by senority. May not be fair to the senior people but it will be done in accordance with the Contract of which the LMOU is a part of.

Bluntly put, if by section, then some senior people will be excessed before the junior people and there ain't nothing than can be done to change it unless the LMOU is changed to elminate excessing by section.

But then both Management and the Union will have to agree and both sign off of the LMOU, it not, it goes in to arbitration until settled, until then the old LMOU remains in effect.