Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
SECOND DIVISION Award No. 12480
Docket No. 12039
92-2-90-2-170
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.
( Brotherhood of Railway Carmen/Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
( Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
1) That the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
violated the current working Agreement when they did not call Carman
J. Leigh out on overtime for wrecking service outside of Yard Kirk
limits.
2) That the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company be
ordered to compensate Carrlan J. Leigh (hereinafter referred to as
the Claimant) who was available, qualified and willing to perform
the work for two (2) hours and forty-five (45) minutes at punitive
rate of pay as required bar Rule 50 and 97 of the current working
Agreement.
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.
This Claim involves an allegation that Claimant should have
been called for wrecking service on June 15, 1989: The facts of record
establish that the engine: rerailing incident triggering the Claim occurred within yard limit,. When engine rerailing activity occurs within
yard limits Carrier, under the Agreement, has discretionary license to
determine the type of equipment and number of Carmen to be dispatched
to accomplish the work involved. In this Claim the Organization has not
established that an insufficient number of Carmen were on the scene to
complete the rerailing activity or that work subject to its Agreement
was performed by outsiders. The Claim is without merit.
Form 1
Page 2 Award No. 12480
Docket No. 12039
92-2-90-2-170
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
ancy J. D -`Executive Secretary
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Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of November 1992.