Docket No. 3978
2-B&O-EW-'62
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
SECOND DIVISION
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Howard A. Johnson when award was rendered.
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 30, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A. F. of L.-C. I. O. (Electrical Workers)
THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES:
1. That the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company violated the
provisions of the current working agreement between the Carrier
and System Federation No. 30, particularly Rules 29 and 125, when
it assigned other than Electrical Workers employed in the Electrical
Department of the Carrier to make routine electrical repairs and
replace electrical equipment on elevators No. 301 and 302, located
in the Northside Warehouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 23,
24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31 and June 1, 1960.
2. That accordingly, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
(hereinafter called the Carrier) be ordered to compensate electricians James O. Barr and John W. Mathews (hereinafter called the
claimants) for eight (8) hours each, May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30,
31 and June 1, 1960 as a result of this violation.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS:
At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
the carrier owns, operates and maintains what is known as the Northside
Warehouse, the space therein being leased to tenants for the handling and
storage of certain and various commodities transported via the carriers'
lines and by means of other types of transportation as well as the distribution of these commodities by the various types of transportation. Originally,
this facility was used both as a freight depot for handling the carriers'
business as well as for storage facilities, but during recent years it has
been utilized primarily for storage purposes and distribution of commodities
received through the carriers' lines or by means of other transportation.
During the entire life of this facility, tenants were required to lease
individual space and included in such leases, certain facilities were
made
available to all tenants including the use of elevators, heating, fire protection,
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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 is identical with that in Award 4091 and necessitates the
same disposition.
AWARD
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of SECOND DIVISION
ATTEST: Harry J. Sassaman
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 20th day of November 1962.
DISSENT OF LABOR MEMBERS TO AWARD
NOS. 4091, 4092 AND 4093
The majority found that the work in these disputes was work included
in the Electrical Workers Special Rules, but when making their Awards
they ignored the provisions of the Agreement, as the pertinent parts of the
rules read as follows:
"Rule 29
None but mechanics or apprentices regularly employed as such
shall do mechanics' work as per special rules of each craft . . ."
"Rule 125
Electricians' work shall include electrical wiring, maintaining,
repairing, rebuilding, inspecting and installing of all generators,
switchboards, meters, motors and controls, static and rotary transformers, motor generators . . . inside and outside wiring at shops,
buildings, yards, . . . and all other work properly recognized as
electricians' work."
This Agreement was made pursuant to the Railway Labor Act, Section 2
Seven of which requires:
"No carrier, its officers or agents, shall change the rates of pay,
rules, or working conditions of its employes, as a class as embodied
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in agreements except in the manner prescribed in such agreements
or in Section 6 of this Act."
Therefore the majority has erred in making these Awards.
T. E. Losey
E. J. McDermott
R. E. Stenzinger
C. E. Bagwell
James B. Zink