NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Mortimer Stone when the award was rendered.
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 12, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A. F. of L.-C. I. O. (Sheet Metal Workers)
CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES:
1. That the Sheet Metal Workers in the California Coach
Yards of the Chicago & North Western Railway have been unjustly
damaged since August 27, 1957 due to the Carrier contracting out
repair work on Waukesha Ice Engines and generators to an outside
concern not covered by the current working agreement.
2. That accordingly the Carrier be ordered to:
(a) Cease using others than Sheet Metal Workers to perform work contained in the classification rule of the Sheet Metal Workers.
(b) Compensate the claimants at straight time
pay for a total of one hundred and eighteen
(118) hours.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS:
Prior to March 18, 1957,
and since 1936, the carrier maintained a Waukesha repair shop at California
Avenue Coach Yard, in which all Waukesha Ice Engines and Waukesha Generators were overhauled in their entirety by federated craft employes, where
the sheet metal workers performed sheet metal work on the above mentioned
units to a completion. The work consisting of the following:
"Washing block of engines and radiators, repair radiators, repair bracket and frame of unit, rebuild ensign valve. Remove and
repair all pipes and tubing, remove and repair shroud for engine
fan, check valves on compressor, straighten condensor ends, fins and
grills, remove and repair muffler, remove and repair compressor,
all gauges, Renew if necessary.
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3609-7
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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.
Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.
This claim involves similar agreement and the same facts and contentions as considered in Award No. 3608 of this Division and like award
should
follow here.
AWARD
Claim remanded to the property for determination of pertinent facts.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT
BOARD
By Order of SECOND DIVISION
ATTEST: Harry J. Sassaman,
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 9th day of December 1960.