SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 121, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A. F. OF L. (CABMEN)
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES: That the carrier is and persists in violating Rules 20 and 95, by rotating regular carmen apprentices through the pattern shop at Marshall, Texas.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: The carrier has arbitrarily promulgated a schedule of work whereby regular apprentices are required to serve 800 hours of their time in the patternmakers' trade.
POSITION OF EMPLOYES: That patternmakers is a trade; the same is true of upholsterers and painters; all are a separate trade. And in order for an apprentice to serve an apprenticeship, he must serve four years at the trade. Rule 20 sets out the sub-division of the carmen's craft which is as follows:
In closing must state that 'we have proven beyond any doubt (1) , patternmakers are carmen; (2), carmen apprentices are also to serve in patternmakers' department in order to learn all branches of the trade in line with Rule 91. This in order that when he completes his apprenticeship that he will be in position to qualify as a carman under Rule 81; (3) , the employes have agreed, as shown by Mr. Nichols' letter, that they do understand that carmen apprentices are to work in the pattern shop and the ones working in this department are to come under carmen apprentice schedule.
FINDINGS: The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.
This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.
Rule 95 of the current agreement sets out the schedule for regular apprentices and said rule is violated by rotating regular apprentices through the pattern shop at Marshall, Texas.