Award No. 1276
Docket No. 1194
2-CRI&P-FT-'48
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
SECOND DIVISION
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 6, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A. F. of L. (FEDERATED TRADES)
THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD
COMPANY
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES:
1. That employes of the several crafts in the roundhouse at Des
Moines, Iowa, changed from one shift to another, were improperly compensated at straight time under the current agreement.
2. That accordingly the carrier be ordered to additionally compensate said employes in the amount of four hours each at their
straight rate of pay for services which they each performed on
the new shift assignment from
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P. M. to 4 A. M. Friday, September 12, 1947.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: At the roundhouse at Des
Moines, Iowa, the carrier operated three shifts, from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M.4 P. M. to 12 Midnight, and 12 Midnight to 8 A. M., prior to September 12,
1947. However, on September 5, 1947, the carrier placed on the bulletin
board the following instructions-
Des Moines, Iowa Sept. 5, 1947
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TO ALL SHOP MEN:
Des Moines will discontinue 3 shifts and will continue with two
shifts, starting five days from this date, September 10, 1947, these
shifts running from 8 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. with a half hour for lunch,
and from 8 P. M. to 4 A. M. straight time.
F. J. Schleihs."
This rearrangment of shifts was made effective Sept. 12, in lieu of the
10th, as above stated, and the employes involved in the statement of dispute
comprise those named below-
1. Machinist Ray Ryan, Machinist Helper Zelmar Johnson, Boilermaker James Rhodes and Boilermaker Helper Ed. Gaitor. These
were changed from the old shift beginning at 4 P. M. to the new
shift beginning at 8 P. M.
2. Machinists Edw. McLellan, John C. White, William M. Lee and
James F. Thompson. Machinist Helpers George VerSteeg and
M. J. Houge. Carman Eldon A. Trindle, and Boilermaker J. C.
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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.
The parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.
The evidence of record in this case does not support the employes'
contention.
AWARD
Claim of the employes denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
ATTEST: J. L. Mindling
Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of September, 1948.