SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 162, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A. F. OF L. (CARMEN)
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES IN TEXAS AND LOUISIANA
(TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY)
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES: That under the controlling agreement, the carrier be ordered to additionally compensate Coach Cleaner Andrew Bibbs at the differential rate of 5 cents per hour as a lead coach cleaner, for all services performed effective March 1, 1943 to June 1, 1943.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: At San Antonio, Texas, the carrier maintains a force of coach cleaners. The claimant, Andrew Bibbs, and nineteen other coach cleaners were regularly employed from 8:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M., seven (7) days per week within the period of March 1, 1943, to June 1, 1943.
From some time prior to March 1, to June 1, 1943, Coach Cleaner Andrew Bibbs was assigned and regularly recognized by the general car foreman and by these coach cleaners as a lead coach cleaner, i. e., he worked with, took the lead and directed the work of other members of a gang in his craft anal on his class of work.
In March, 1943, claim was made that Coach Cleaner Bibbs was entitled to be paid for his service as a lead man the differential rate of five cents per hour, and this claim has been declined by the carrier. However, the carrier acted to annul the claim of Claimant Bibbs continuing beyond May 31, by posting bulletin No. 52-43, which reads:
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.
It is apparent from the record that Andrew Bibbs was performing work recognized as a lead-workman. The carrier later recognized the application of the rule as applied to coach cleaners by bulletining this position which warrants an affirmative award.