Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 11669
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11544
89-2-88-2-11
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/ Division TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Southern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Carrier violated the current Agreement when they failed
to advertise a newly created Painter's position in the Coster Wheel Shop,
Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 12, 1986.
2. That the Carrier be ordered to advertise newly created Wheel Shop
Painter's position in accordance with Rule 20 of the controlling Agreement.
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 Organization is seeking an order from this Board requiring Carrier to re-establish a painter position on the 2nd shift at the Coster Wheel
Shop in Knoxville. This assignment was abolished on March 27, 1986. The
Organization contends that subsequent to May 12, 1986 Carrier re-established
the assignment without bulletining and handpicked an individual to do the work.
Carrier acknowledges that the painter assignment was eliminated on
March 27, 1986. It contends that sufficient work was no longer available to
justify the continuation of a full time painter on the 2nd shift. It also
acknowledges that from time to time it has assigned required painting work to
a qualified Carmen. However, in the ten week period following the date the
Organization alleges the position was reestablished this occurred on only 43
percent of the work days - hardly justification for the continuation of a full
time assignment.
Form 1 Award No. 11669
Page 2 Docket No. 11544
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We have examined this record carefully and studied Rule 20, the only
one relied on by the Organization, and must conclude that the Organization,
who has the burden of proof on all essential aspects of its Claim, has not
sustained its required burden in this matter. Accordingly, the Claim must be
denied.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:.
fl-a ncy .'P-Executive Secret ry
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day of March 1989.