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NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 6727
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6488
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Robert M. O'Brien when award was rendered.
( Sheet Metal Workers' International
( Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Dispute: Claim of Employes:
1. That the Carrier violated the current Agreement particularly
Rule 97, and the Transfer of Work Understanding of 1940, at
North Little Rock, Arkansas when they improperly assigned
Machinist and Machinist Helper the duty of applying and
connecting new
2"
by 50' hose to hose reel at 400 Yard Ramp
on January 27, 1972.
.2. That accordingly the Carrier be ordered to additionally
compensate Sheet Metal Worker A. L. Kerr and Sheet Metal
Worker Helper E. P. Moix in the amount of four (4) hours
each at the pro rata rate of pay.
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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 waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
The facts giving rise to the instant claim are not in dispute. On
January 27, 1972 Carrier's Machinist Foreman assigned Machinists the jab
of connecting new ~" by 50' air hose to a hose reel. Petitioner contends
this work belongs to the Sheet Metal Workers Craft and cites Rule 97 of
the applicable agreements the classification of work rule, in support
of the claim.
Carrier denies that Rule 97 reserves to Sheet Metal Workers the job
of connecting rubber hoses as is the case before us.
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Form 1 Award No. 6'T27
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Page 2 Docket No. 4488
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Rule 97 reserves to Sheet Metal Workers "... the bending, fitting,
cutting, threading, bra zing, connecting and disconnecting of air, water,
gas, oil and steam pipes and hand rails." No where therein is there
mention of rubber hoses. Rule 97 reserves to Sheet Metal Workers
work attendant to the installation
and
connecting of pipes, not rubber
hoses. And by no stretch of the imagination can a rubber hose be
considered a pipe. .
We are not persuaded that the 1971 claim at North Little Rock,
Arkansas, relied upon by Petitioner, is controlling herein. The
facts
therein have not been sufficiently stated for us to determine whether
the claim is analogous to
the
one at hand. We, therefore, consider it
of no precedential valve.
Finding no merit to Petitioner's contention that connecting of the
rubber air hose to the hose peel is work reserved
to
claifnant~-, by the
classification of work role, the claim must be denied.
A WA R D
Claim denied.
~ NATIONAL
RAILROAD
ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Executive
Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board
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osemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 9th day op July, 197+.