Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 11982
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11788-T
91-2-89-2-103
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Marty E. Zusman when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/ Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad Company violated
the terms of our Current Agreement particularly Rule 65(b).
2. That accordingly, the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad
Company be ordered to compensate Carmen C. F. Kuzina and J. E. Friedman in the
amount of four (4) hours each at the straight time rate for each day of
January 14, 1988 and January 18, 1988 account of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron
Range Railroad Company supervision assigning two (2) employees of the Firemen
and Oilers craft to the work of wrecking service.
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.
There is no dispute that on January 14, and 18, 1988, two F&0 employees along with one Carman rerailed a car at the Proctor Car Shop. Said cars
were within yard limits and rerailed with the use of the 20 ton Grove Mobile
Crane.
The Organization has purused this Claim maintaining that Carmen have
the exclusive right under Rule 65 in the rerailing of these cars. As Carmen
were available and not called, the Organization argues that Carrier has
violated the Agreement.
The Board's review of the Rules cited by the Organization finds no
specific language granting exclusivity. In addition, the Carrier points out
that the cars were being moved by F&0 employees when they derailed. Carrier
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asserts that the Carman was called to assist in the rerailing which is routinely done by other crafts, including train crews and Maintenance of Way
employees. This is not refuted on the property.
The Firemen and Oilers entered a Third Party response which stated
that "the actual work performed by the two laborers on both occasions was
operating the crane and as the crane helper..., which is _not Carman's work
(emphasis in original)." They argue that the F&0 Laborers were moving the
cars when they derailed and operated or assisted in the operation of the crane
which is not Carmen's work.
This Board finds that the Organization has failed to show Agreement
language which grants exclusivity. Nor do we find a record of evidence that
the work has historically been the exclusive right of Carmen rather than an
extension of Fireman and Oilers' duties. There is no record established by
the Organization to demonstrate that the Carrier was prohibited from its
action or improperly assigned the work. Rule 65(b) requires that when there
is a derailment within yard limits "sufficient carmen will be called to
perform the work." The language has not been shown to require that only
carmen can perform the work. A careful review of the Awards cited by the
Organization show them to have been sustained either under totally different
facts and circumstances or when other than Carmen were called to assist in
rerailing.
We find that Carmen and only Carmen were called to assist the F&0
employees in rerailing their own car (Second Division Award 11661). Had the
probative evidence supported the Organization's assertion that F&0 employees
were called to assist Carmen in rerailing, this would have constituted a
different set of circumstances. In this case and under these instant facts,
the Claim is denied (see Second Division Awards 10963, 8798, 7403, 5812, 3859,
2343, among others).
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Nancy J.r - Executive Sec etary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 16th day of January 1991.
LABOR MEMBERS' DISSENT TO
AWARD NO. 11982 (Docket No.11788T)
Referee Marty E. Zusman
The Majority erred with the decision made in this Award,
by not following the precedent set down by previous Awards
of this Division that explicitly gives Carmen the exclusive
right to rerail cars within yard limits. In Award No. 4674
of this Division wherein the Carrier assigned Maintenance
of Way Employes to assist a train crew in rerailing two cars
within yard limits held that:
"We do not believe that the second
sentence gives the Carrier the choice
of using or not using a sufficient
number of carmen "For wrecks or
derailments with-in yard limits."
Accordingly, we believe the Carrier
action violated the controlling
labor Agreement."
This same opinion was echoed in many other Awards of this
Division, such as; 4830, 6030, and 8090, all of which were
made a part of the argument on the property and provided to
this Arbitrator at the time the Division argued the Docket.
Yet all were obviously ignored by this Arbitrator as they were
not even mentioned in his Award.
The Majority erroneously relies on Award No. 11661 wherein
it was found that the Rule in effect on that property, between
that Carrier and the Organization specifically allowed the
operating crew to rerail equipment that they,themselves may
derail. Such allowance is not written into the language of
the Agreement that is applicable in this Award.
LABOR MEMBERS' DISSENT
TO AWARD N0.11982,
DOCKET N0.11788T
Contrary to the Majority's erroneous opinion that:
"The Board's review of the Rules cited
by the Organization finds no specific
language granting exclusivity."
The Labor Members' believe that the opinions expressed
in the previously cited Awards clearly set a precedent
that does in fact support an argument for exclusivity
of Carmen being used "For wrecks or derailments within
yard limits."
For these reasons the Labor Members' Vigorously Dissent
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