NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addition
Referee Gene T. Ritter when award was rendered.
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 16, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'
DEPARTMENT, A.F. of L.-C.I.O. (CARMEN)
NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
DISPUTE: CLAIM OF EMPLOYES -
1. That under the terms of the current agreement, the Carrier improperly denied Carman-Welder T. W. Humphreys eight (8)
hours' birthday compensation for his birthday, February 10,
1966, which fell during his assigned vacation period.
2. That accordingly, the Carrier be ordered to compensate the
aforesaid employe eight (8) hours at the straight-time rate as
birthday-holiday compensation.
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 waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
The question involved in this dispute is identical to the question in
Award 6710. Therefore, for the reasons set out in Award 6710 this claim
will be denied.
AWARD
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
ATTEST: Charles C. McCarthy
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 6th day of June, 1969.
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