Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 7661
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 7455
2-CRI&P-CM-'78

The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee Robert G. Williams when award was rendered.

( System Federation No. 6, Railway Employes'

( Department, A. F. of L. - C. I. 0.

Parties to Dispute: ( (Carmen)

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company

Dispute: Claim of Employes:

1. That under the current Agreement, Carrier improperly assigned other than Carmen (Isringhausen Company) to dismantle twenty-five (25) railroad cars at its Little Rock, Arkansas Train Yard.

2. That the Carrier reclaimed usable parts, A.B. brake valves, air brake cylinders, angle cocks, air hoses, journal bearings draft gears, yokes, cross keys, couplers, roller bearing wheels, friction bearing wheels, hand brakes, hand brake wheels, side and end ladders, sill steps, etc.

3. That accordingly, Carrier be ordered to make -the Carmen whole by additionally compensating the following Carmen 8 hours each at the time and one half rate for 24 days pay each, Carman D7. B. Branstetter, J. R. Barlow and D. D. Hutchings.

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 Carrier in this case entered into agreements in 1975 with an outside firm fox the purpose of scrapping and retiring freight cars. Each agreement set a firm price for each car less usable parts. The record does not show the value of such usable parts or the cost to the carrier of recovering such parts. The record does not show the value of the scrap. The Carrier entered into leases permitting the outside firm to enter upon the Carrier's property to perform its work.