Award No. 2847 Docket No. CL-2911

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS, FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (PACIFIC LINES)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

(a) The carrier has violated and continues to violate the rules of our current agreement when it declined and continues to decline to reclassify and re-rate position now held by Mr. Walter McCarvey, Yard-Freight Clerk, rate $6.18 per day, Martinez, California, to Demurrage Clerk, rate $6.84 per day.

(b) Mr. Walter McGarvey's position be reclassified to Demurrage Clerk and paid rate of $6.84 per day, retroactive to April 2, 1943, date claim was filed by Division Chairman of the Brotherhood with Division Superintendent of the carrier.

NOTE: Rates named in Items (a) and (b) above subject to adjustment in consonance with national wage increase award dated January 17, 1944.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:

That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by complainant party; and

That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of March 6, 1945, the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request is hereby granted.

AWARD

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD By Order of Third Division

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of March, 1945.

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