Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 6570 f
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6389
The Second. Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Nicholas H. Zumas when award was rendered.
( System Federation No. 100, Railway Employes'
( Department, A. F. of L. - C. I. 0.
Parties to Dispute: (Carmen)

( Erie-Lackawanna Railway Company

Dispute: Claim of Employes:













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.




On claim dates in question, Claimants were required to perform work at Mosier Yard which is.-1beated approximately two miles from Carrier's Brier Hill Car Shop where they are employed. It is undisputed that both Brier Hill Car Shop and Mosier Yard are within the same yard switching limits, and both within the same seniority district of Claimants.

The Organization asserts that the claims should be sustained on the basis of a violation of Rule 10(a) and (h) as well as past practice.
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Award No. 6570

Docket No. 6~1

2-EL-CM-'73


The Board finds that Rule 10 is not applicable because there are no carmen positions at Mosier Yard. As such, Claimants could not be filling temporary vacancies under Rule 10, the temporary vacancy rule. Instead they were performing work on their own positions within the switching limits of their home point.

With respect to past practice, the record fails to reveal that such past practice, as alleged, was system-wide. Isolated local instances of past practice are insufficient under the vast majority of the awards of this Board.

r1 W A R D

Claims denied.

NATIOPiAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division


Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad .'..1'justment Board

,.Rosemarie Brasch

Administrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of September, 1973.