Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 7464
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 7375
2-KCT-EW-'78





Parties to Dispute: ( (Electrical Workers)




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 employer involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21,.193+.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.



On July 13, 1]75, Assistant General Foreman Edwards .performed the work of flushing and charging of storage batteries at Kansas City, Missouri. The Organization alleges that the work in question is reserved to them by agreement and that the carrier's action of permitting Asst. Foreman Edwards to perform the work was in violation of said agreement.
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-Award Tdo. 7464
Docket No. 7375 100
2-KCT-EW-'78

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Classification of Work rule is rule 67 which reads as follows:

"Electricians' work, including regular and helper apprentices, shall consist of maintaining, repairing, rebuilding, inspecting and installing the electric wiring of all generators, switchboards, meters, motors and controls, rheostats and controls, motor generators, electric headlights and headlight generators, electric welding machines, storage batteries, axle lighting equipment, including steam and electric locomotives, passenger train equipment; winding armatures, fields, magnet coils, rotors, transformers and starting compensators, and all other work generally recognized as electricians' work."

Maintaining and inspecting of storage batteries is specifically covered by the rule. Under the agreement an electrician should have been called to perform the work of his craft.

The Organization has properly objected to the carrier's attempt to make its case for the first time in its submission to this Board. It is well established that issues and evidence cannot for the first time be included at the time of submission.

We will sustain the claim without interest. We are unable to find contractual support for the interest portion of the claim.

A W A R D

Claim sustained in accordance with above Findings.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMEl~'T BOARD

By Order of Second Division


Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

R semarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 10th day of February, 1978.

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