Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 6791
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6635
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Parties to Dispute:




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.

Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.

The question to be determined in this dispute is whether Claimants transferred from first shift to second shift at the insistence of Carrier (entitling them to "shift pay" under Rule 13(a) of the Agreement), or whether it was a transfer through the exercise of seniority (which does not entitle them to "shift pay").

The Board finds that the claim must be sustained. Even if the positions had in fact been abolished as Carrier contends (and there is no evidence that they were), it is unrefuted that Claimants were not so advised nor was a copy furnished to the Local Chairman. Under these circumstances the position of the Carrier is without merit.
Form 1 Award No. 6790
Page 2 Docket No. 6635
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    Claim sustained.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Second Division


Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

By
R semarie Brasch - A Eistrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of November, 1974.

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