Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 12051
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11943-T
91-2-90-2-51
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Eckehard Muessig when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Kansas City Terminal Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company violated Rules 6,
7, 8, 9, 19 and 71 of the current agreements when they called Roundhouse
Pipefitter and Welder Mike Rock to bring the wrecker to Mill St. Yard. After
arriving, Mr. D. E. House, Superintendent, called Cayman D. C. Wall to the
site and Pipefitter Rock assisted and performed carmen's work in repairing
trucks of tank car PLCX224528 placing them under the car and in essence,
repaired, replaced and inspected tank car. This was on November 29, 1988.
Carmen were assigned and available to perform the work in question.
2. That because of such violation, the Kansas City Terminal Railway
Company be ordered to compensate Carmen N. J. Hayes and Robert Hayes in the
amount of eight (8) hours each at the time and one-half 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 Sheet Metal Workers International
Association was advised of the pendency of this dispute and filed a Submission
with the Division.
On November 28, 1988, a railroad tank car lost the "B" end set of
trucks and was derailed. One of the Carrier's Superintendents directed a
Pipefitter-Welder to proceed to the derailment site with a Cline truck. The
Pipefitter picked up various pieces that were lost from the tank car, including the wheels, wedges-and springs. He also operated the boom on the truck to
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assist with placing the trucks under the tank car. The dispute here focuses
on the question of whether the work performed by the Pipefitter and the Superintendent belonged to the Carmen at the Kansas City Terminal, both by the
rules and past practice.
In this Claim, there are two general work functions being claimed by
the Organization, the operation of the Cline truck and the work of retailing.
With respect to the driving of the Cline truck, there is no agreement provisions or past practice to support the Organization's claim. Indeed, it was
never substantively refuted on the property that members of other crafts also
operated the Cline truck.
With respect to the remainder of the work involved in retailing the
car, it is apparent that retailing is Cayman's work; however, it is not exclusively Cayman's work. Rule 71 - Classification of Work is applicable to
this Claim and it does not contain the term "retailing." Accordingly, for the
Organization to prevail in a case of this kind, because there is no evidence
that it is entitled to the work by specific rule language, its claim can only
rest on the last phrase of Rule 71 which reads "...and all other work now
generally recognized as carmen's work." However, to meet its burden under
this language, it must show an exclusive system-wide past practice, a burden
it has not met. The Board also notes that past Awards have rejected the same
argument on the same issue as here, i.e., that retailing is not exclusively'
Cayman's work (see Second Division Awards 6361, 3859, among others).
For all of the foregoing, the Claim is denied.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Nancy
40111
er - Executive `Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th day of May 1991.