Ill. That under the current and controlling agreement the Firemen and Oilers working at Huntington Locomotive Shop with and/or supporting the 'Standard Line' have been denied proper compensation since June 15, 1992.

2. That accordingly, we are requesting (20)

minutes pay at time and one-half rate for all

the Firemen and Oilers at the Huntington shop

who were not allowed the paid lunch since June

15. Also, we are requesting that all

positions be paid lunch as per rule 4 of the

Firemen and Oilers agreement."

The claim and the Rules in dispute are quite similar to the claim which was presented to this Board in Second Division Award 12915, except that the dispute here involves the Huntington, West Virginia, Locomotive Repair Facility of the Carrier on the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company property in the establishment of a "standard line" of operation for inspection, whereas the previous dispute involved a like operation at the Carrier shops in Waycross, Georgia, on the former Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

In the case here at issue, beginning June 15, 1992, nine of 74 positions being filled by employees represented by the Organization were assigned to work on a newly established standard line operation at the Huntington Shop for the complete inspection of locomotives. The nine positions were assigned to work on a twoshift basis (3:00 PM to 11:00 PM and 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM) including an allowance of 20 minutes for lunch. Employees who are represented by the various Shop Craft unions were assigned to all three shifts of the standard line operation.

The other 65 employees represented by the Organization, who held various positions in the Back Shop prior to establishment of the standard line, continued thereafter to be assigned to work a total of eight and one-half hours, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch period.

The Organization maintains that whereas Rule 4(b) of the Agreement was applicable where one or two shifts were in effect, that when the Carrier went to a three-shift operation for the standard line Rule 4(c) became the applicable contract language governing the assignment of both shifts and lunch periods.

Rule 4(c) reads.

"(c) Where three shifts are employed, the spread of each shift shall be eight hours, including an allowance of 20 minutes for lunch. In event the requirements of the service will not permit the employee taking 20 minutes for lunch, extra compensation will not be allowed. Members of the retiring force whose work is to be taken up by the members of the oncoming force which relieves it, will, where necessary, explain the status of the work that is being transferred. In making this transfer it is not expected that the retiring force will remain beyond regular quitting time, but it is expected that the oncoming force shall be on hand in sufficient time to make the transfer without delaying members, or any member, of the retiring force."

For the reasons set forth by this Board in its disposition of a _ike claim in Award 12915, the instant claim is found to be without necessary Agreement support. Accordingly, we cannot conclude, as urged by the organization, that in establishing a three-shift standard line operation that Rule 4(c) prescribed that all assignments at the Huntington Locomotive Shop, regardless of an assigned shop or work area, have starting times and lunch periods the same as established for those employees assigned to the standard line operation. The language of Rule 4(c) cannot be read t:: prescribe that because the Carrier would establish a three-shift c.:eration for one separate area of the shop it has to change the hours of all other assignments at the separate shop or work areas so as to provide a paid lunch period for all employees.

AWARD