Form 1 NATIOT:AL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 6665
. SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6527
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The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee David Dolnick when award was rendered.
( System Federation No. 156, Railway Employes'
( Department, A. F. of L. - C. I. 0.
Parties to Dispute: ( (Electrical Workers)
( The Long Island Rail Road Company
Dispute: Claim of Employes:
1. That-the following
employee, William F. Bell, Electrician,
was deprived of the double time rate of pay worked on
Sunday, March 19, 1972 - twelve and one half hours - when
he was called out to work from 1:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
2. That the above mentioned employee be compensated at the
double time rate of pay instead of the time and a half
he received for work performed on that day.
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.
The facts in this claim are comparable to those in Docket No.
6512 which was adjudicated in Award No. 6662 by denying that claim.
Here, Claimant was assigned and did work on Sunday, March 19,
19 72 for which he was paid a t the time and one-half rate. Carrier
wrote to the General Chairman on May 18, 1972
advising him
that the
number of electricians working on Sunday, March 19, 1972 was no
greater than the maximum number permitted to work with no penalty
on January 17, 1971, the qualifying Sunday under. Article VII of the
Agreement. This has not been challenged by the Employes.
Form 1
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Award No. 6665
Docket No. 6527
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For the reasons stated in Award No. 6662 , which are applicable
here and are affirmed, the Board finds that the Agreement was not
violated and that the claim has no merit.
A W A R D
Claim is denied.
NATIO14AL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board
B--(Rosemarie 13rasch - Administrative Assistant
Dated a t Chicago, Illinois, this 22nd day of March, i974,p