Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 101:71
SECOND DIVISION
Docket No. 9076-T
2-CRR-FO-184
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John B. LaRocco when award was rendered.
( International Brotherhood of Fireman and Oilers
Parties to Dispute:
( Clinchfield Railroad Company
Dispute: Claim of Employes:
1. That the Clinchfield Railroad Company violated the Controlling Agreement,
particularly Rule 1 Scope, when wrecker car attendant Laborer Buford
Rogers, Erwin, Tennessee, was not called for wrecking service accoLnt
of other employes used as wrecker attendant on the following dates:
September 9, 1979; September 10, 1979; September 11, 1979 and September
23, 1979.
2. That accordingly the Clinchfield Railroad Company be ordered to compensate
Laborer Buford Rogers in the amount of thirty-nine (39) hours at punitive
.rate of pay for September 9, 1979; September 10, 1979; September 11,
1979 and September 23, 1979.
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 employes 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 Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes was notified of this claim as
a possible party at interest but it declined to intervene.
Claimant, a former but now retired Laborer at Erwin, Tennessee, alleged that
the Carrier violated the Scope Rule of the applicable Agreement when it purportedly
assigned wrecker attendant duties to workers in another craft. In 1958, Claimant
successfully bid for an as-needed Laborer position on the wrecking crew to
perform miscellaneous cleaning duties and to assist the cook. The assignment was
supplemental to his regular shop position. On four days in September, 1979, the
Carrier allegedly instructed a Laborer in another craft to perform miscellaneous
cleaning chores in wrecking service. According to the organization, the Scope
clause in the applicable Agreement incorporated the well entrenched, twenty year
practice of assigning Claimant, to the exclusion of.a11 other crafts, to the
duties associated with the wrecker attendant. The Carrier specifically denied
that any wrecking service was performed on September 9 and 10, 1979 and affirmatively
argued that Claimant did not have the exclusive right to perform the work in
dispute by either rule or past practice on the other two claim dates.
Form 1 Award No. 10171
Page 2 Docket No. 9076-T
2-CRR-FO-184
This Board has
recently decided
an identical dispute between these same
parties. In Second Divison Award No. 9754, we ruled that the Organization failed
to prove a past practice which would exclusively entitle Claimant to perform the
disputed work so long as the work was not performed by either a supervisor or an
employee of another railroad. Applying the principles enunciated in Second
Division Award No. 8270, our decision in Award No. 9754 conclusively disposed of
the issues in the record before us.
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W A R
D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD
ADJUSTMENT
BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Nancy J. Dever - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 9th day of January 1985.