Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 12439
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 12137
92-2-90-2-286
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Herbert L. Marx, Jr. when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Southern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1. That the Southern Railway Company violated the terms and conditions of the controlling agreement on September 27, 1989 at Attalla, Alabama
when they failed to call Carm&n J. 0. James to a derailment at his home point.
This is in violation of Rules 141 and 138 of the Agreement.
2. That accordingly, the Southern Railway Company now be ordered to
provide the proper relief by compensating Carman J. 0. James for seven (7)
hours pay at the overtime rate in effect on September 27, 1989 for this violation.
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 Claimant is assigned as a Carmen at Attalla, Alabama, a "one-man"
point. On September 27, 1989, a derailment occurred near Attalla. The
Carrier dispatched two Carmen with equipment from Birmingham to rerail the
locomotives and cars.
The Organization contends that the Claimant should have been called
in view of his assignment at Attalla. During the claim handling procedure on
the property, the Organization cited Rules 138 and 141. While defining the
work at "one-man" points, these Rules do not address the question at point
here. As argued by the Carrier, there is no showing that the Claimant enjoyed
preference in derailment work to other Carmen in the area.
Form 1 Award No. 12439
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The Claim must fall for lack of clear Rule support.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Nancy J.
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v -Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of September 1992.