Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 8081
SECOND DIVISION Docket Pro. 7891--T
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The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee Abraham Weiss when award was rendered.

( System Federation No. 7, Railway Employes'

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

Parties to Dispute: ( (Electrical Workers)

( Burlington Northern Inc.

Dispute: Claim of Ercployes:

1. That in violation of the current working agreement the Burlington

Northern Inc. , did arbitrarily aboll- sh -'Q-he position of Shop

Electrician at Carrier's Hannibal Diesel Facility and assigned

work contractually belonging to 'L-.he Ele~trical Craft to non

electrical forces.

?_, That accordingly, the Burlington Northern Inc., be ordered to

compensate Cl.aianant John Sf eenstry, Electrician at the Kansas City

Diesel Facility, Kansas City, lUssouri fox eight (8) hours

compensation at pro-rata rate for each day that employef·s and

exempt personnel of the Carrier other than electricians, perform

electrical work. Ca_a.im to start on date of Z?arch 25, 1977 and

continue until adjusted.

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 ~une 21, 193.

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

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

The instant claim alleges that effective March 24, 1977 Carrier abolished an electrician's position at St. Joseph, Missouri. The incumbent of that-Position thereupon exercised his seniority to displace a junior employee at Kansas City., T.Zo. The claim was filed on behalf of the junior employee displaced at Kansas City. The basis of the claim is that other crafts are performing electricELl work at St. Joseph, in violation of the Electricians' Classification of Work Rule 76,

The Machinists and Firemen and Oilers, as interested third parties, received notice of this dispute, but submitted no substantive comments.
Form 1 Award No. 8081

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Carrier asserts that the job was abolished because there was insufficient work to justify its continuation, and in its letter of declination cited the time spent by the then incumbent on electrical malfunctions during the month of January 1977. Carrier relies on Rule 27(e) which reads as follows:

"(e) When the service requirements do not justify the employment of a mechanic in each craft, the mechanic or mechanics on duty will, so far as they are capable, perform the work of any other craft that may be necessary. In the event a question arises as to the practical supplication of this rule, a joint check shall be made when so requested by the General Chairman."

Carrier adds that under Rule 27(e), if a question arises as to the practical application of this sole, a joint check s!iall be made when so requested by the General Chairman. No such request eras made.

We must poiw'~ out that `the claim subY::_i.t-ted to this Board in Petitioner's

Ex Paste Submission differs from that :,ubaitted and discussed on the pro' rerty
in thaw the submission to tz, st:e.tes that Carrier «bol:i.shed thi-: position of
Shop Electrician at Carrier's 1'annibal Diesel Facil-7-ty. Hannibal and St.
Joseph are two separate locations some 200 miles apart.

Restricting ourselves to the claim handled on the property; that is, the abolishment of the Elect;ci;;ian's pos:i.tion at St. Joseph, T.?o., we find that Petitioner has failed to J:'urnish eW dence to support the claim. In declining the claim, Carries°'s Vice President--Labor Relations cited the applicability of Rule 27(e) to the circwnstances involved in this claim. Petitioner's submisi.on makes no comment on Rule 27(e).

Absent evidence in support; of Petitioner's allegation, we are compelled to deny the claim.

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RA.Z:GROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division

Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

osemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

Date at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th day of September, 1979.