NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
Form 1 SECOND DIVISION Award No. 12507
Docket No. 12127
93-2-90-2-264
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen
(Division/TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
(Rail-way Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"1. That the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Company violated the controlling Agreement,
specifically Rules 9, 10, 36 and 98 of the
September 1, 1974 Agreement, as amended, when
they instructed, allowed and permitted C.
Rydberg, who was working as a Relief
Supervisor on November 29, 1989, to perform
the usual and customary duties of a Carman.
2. That accordingly, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway Company be ordered to additionally
compensate Carman J. R. Pavia in the amount of
eight (8) hours; at the applicable hourly rate
of pay for the 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 employe 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.
Form 1
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Award No. 12507
Docket No. 12127
93-2-90-2-264
This Claim is the third in a series of disputes contending
that Cayman Rydberg, who is also a Relief Supervisor, performed
Carmen's work while under pay as a Supervisor. See Awards 12505
and 12506. In this Claim, Rydberg started work on November 29,
1989 as a Cayman. At approximately 9:00 A.M., that date, the
Supervisor on duty was dispatched to Pittsburg, California, to
supervise work at a derailment site. Carrier set up Rydberg as a
Relief Supervisor at that time. Carrier paid Rydberg for the
entire shift at the Supervisor rate of pay. Carrier maintains that
Rydberg did not perform work as a Cayman after being set up as a
Supervisor and that it was customary on the property to pay
employees used in this fashion for the whole day as a Supervisor.
The Organization has not submitted evidence demonstrating that
Rydberg worked as a Cayman subsequent to 9:00 A.M., the time that
he was set up as a Supervisor. Moreover, ~the Organization has not
demonstrated that Rydberg performed any Supervisor duties between
the start of his shift and 9:00 A.M., when he was assigned as a
Cayman. This missing proof causes the Claim to be flawed.
Moreover, the Organization cannot expect to prevail in a contention
that the Agreement is violated simply because carrier chose to pay
Rydberg for an entire shift as a Supervisor when it became
necessary in an emergency situation to set him up as a Supervisor
after he had started work as a Cayman.
The Claim will be denied for lack of proof.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Nancy J.
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 3rd day of February 1993.