Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 11930
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11620-'.C
90-2-88-2-142
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Edward L. Suntrup when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company violated Rules 71
and 73 of the current working Agreement when on April 24, 1987 they assigned
Mike Rocke and Roy Pennington, who are not Carmen, to take the Cline Truck and.
rerail Cars TTPX 82521 and TTPX 81310 flat load of lumber that were derailed
at Mill Street Yard.
2. That because of such violation, the Kansas City Terminal Railway
Company be ordered to compensate Carmen N. J. Hayes, who was available to be
called to perform the work, four (4) hours at the overtime rate of pay.
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.
As Third Party in Interest, the International Brotherhood of Firemen
and Oilers was advised of the pendency of this dispute, but chose not to file
a response with the Division.
A Claim for four (4) hours was filed by the Organization at the
Kansas City Terminal on grounds that non-Agreement employees were used to rerail cars. On April 24, 1987, flat loads of lumber TTPX 82521 and 81310 were
rerailed at the Carrier's Mill Street Yards by a Sheet Metal Worker and a
Laborer. According to the Claim such represented violation of Agreement Rules
71 and 73. The Rules at bar read as follows:
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"CLASSIFICATION OF WORK
Rule 71
Carmen's work, including regular and helper
apprentices, shall consist of building, maintaining,
dismantling (except all-wood freight-train cars),
painting, upholstering and inspecting all passenger
and freight cars, both wood and steel, planing mill,
cabinet and bench carpenter work, pattern and flask
making and all other carpenter work in shops and
yards, except work generally recognized as bridge and
building department work; carmen's work in building
and repairing passenger train motor cars; building,
repairing, and removing and applying wooden locomo
tive cabs, pilots, pilot beams, running boards, foot
and headlight boards; tender frames and trucks, pipe
_and inspection work _in connection with air brake
equipment _on freight cars; applying patented metal
roofing, operating punches and shears, doing shaping
and forming, work done with hand forges and heating
torches in connection with carmen's work; painting,
varnishing, surfacing, decorating, lettering, cutting
of stencils and removing paint (not including use of
sand blast machine or removing vats); all other work
generally recognized as painters' work under the
supervision of the locomotive and car departments,
except the application of blacking to fire and smoke
boxes of locomotives in engine houses; joint car in
spectors, car inspectors, safety appliance and train
car repairers; oxyacetylene and electric welding work
generally recognized as carmen's work; _and all other
work now generally recognized as carmen's work."
"WRECKING CREWS
Rule 73
Regularly assigned wrecking crew will _be composed
of carmen and helpers.
Meals and lodging will be provided by the company
while crew is on duty in wrecking service."
In support of its Claim the Organization presents a statement by one Carman
working on this property that: "as long as (this Carman) worked for the
K.C.T. Ry the rerailing (of) freight equipment had been Carmen's duties."
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In denying the Claim the Carrier states that the rerailing of derailed equipment is not the exclusive purview of Carmen on this property
although members of this craft have assisted with this type of work in the
past. Correspondence by the Carrier to the Organization under date of
February 29, 1988, is pertinent in this respect and is cited here for the
record:
"..(the) Carrier has provided the Organization
with factual figures for approximately the last
20 years wherein the mechanical department employees (a department which includes Carmen as
well as other shop craft employees) re-railed
approximately 20% of derailed equipment on the
K.C. Terminal. Almost 80% of the derailments
logged were re railed by other than Carmen
therefore refuting any claims to exclusivity."
A review of the full record in this case shows that Carmen have participated
in the rerailment of equipment on this property. The same record does not sup
port the conclusion, however, according to substantial evidence criteria, that
such work was under the exclusive jurisdiction of Carmen. Substantial evidence has been defined, for arbitral purposes, as such "relevant evidence as a
reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion" (Consol. Ed.
Co. vs Labor Board 305 U.S. 197, 229).
Claim denied.
Attest:
Nancy J. D -Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of August 1990.
A W A R D
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division