Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 11712
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11517
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The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Raymond E. McAlpin when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/Division TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(CSX Transportation, Inc. (former Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, hereinafter
referred to as the Carrier, violated the Agreement, particularly Rules 104 and
30(a), when it instructed or authorized employes of Steel Processing Company
to remove the automobile racks. from four (4) cars by the use of acetyleneoxygen torches on July 3 and August 14,
15, 16
and
18, 1986.
2. And that the Carrier should be ordered to additionally compensate
Carmen J. H. Starks, R. C. Lantz, R. E. Sullivan, D. Farthing, P. L. Reed, D.
M. Bridges, C. G. Rollins, and M. A. Smith, hereinafter referred to as the
Claimants, who were first out and available for call from the miscellaneous
overtime board on each respective date, and were qualified for said work, the
amount they would have earned had they been called and used, or eight (8)
hours each at overtime rate.
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_
On May 31, 1986 four cars were involved in a derailment at Tennessee
City, TN. These cars were equipped with multi-level racks used to haul automobiles. The cars were re-railed to move to Nashville, TN at which time the
racks were removed by an outside contractor and were stacked. The flat cars
were returned to service.
The Organization stated that the language in Rules 104 and 30(a) is
clear:
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"Rule 104
CLASSIFICATION OF WORK
Carmen's work shall consist of building, maintaining, dismantling, painting, upholstering, and
inspecting all passenger and freight cars..."
"Rule 30
Assignment of Work
None but mechanics and apprentices regularly.
employed as such shall do mechanics' work-as per
special rules of each craft..."
The Organization stated the racks are an integral part of the cars.
Subcontracting language does not apply under these circumstances since all the
items contained in that language were available and there was no notice to the
Organization. The Organization noted that in the past cars were sold for
scrap. In this case the cars were kept but the racks were sold, so dismantling was required. The Organization also stated that the Carrier controls
this work and that they are responsible from the time of the derailment.
The Carrier argued that Rule 48 provides that in scrapping equipment
only parts to be used again will be dismantled by mechanics or apprentices of
their respective crafts. The Carrier argued that the auto racks attached to
the four cars were destroyed during the derailment. The cars themselves were
repairable and sent out for repairs before return to their respective owners.
The racks and the cars to which they were attached were under second ownership
by different companies, and those companies sold the racks only to a steel
processing company as scrap. The steel processing company cut the racks loose
and then cut the racks into pieces for ease of handling.
The Board finds that the Submission contains clear evidence that the
cars were not under the control of the Carrier in that the cars and the racks
were controlled and owned by other corporations. Numerous Awards of this
Board have held that ownership and control are key to the Organization's Claim
(see Second Division Award 11160). Since the work in question was performed
only at the direction of the owner of the cars and the dismantling occurred
only to facilitate the scrapping of the racks and not for repair, the .Board
finds it was not the Carrier's work to assign, and the Claim will be denied.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
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NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
s
'Nancy J. D - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of April 1989.