NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY,
ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY OF TEXAS
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the System Committee of the
Brotherhood that:
(1) Carrier's refusal to bulletin position (relief) established by
Superintendent F. W. Ferguson's notice of January 9 1950, requiring
the service of a clerical worker to, effective Saturday, January 14,
1950, regularly relieve clerks at Brinkley Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, and clerk at North Little Rock Tuesday and Wednesday of
each week with Thursday and Friday of each week as rest days, is
violative of rules of Agreement effective April 1, 1946, and Memorandum Agreements thereto dated July 22, 1949, and August 5, 1950,
effective September 1, 1949.
(2) Carrier be required by an appropriate award of your Board
to bulletin the newly created position named in Section (1) hereof
and assign same to the senior applicant, as required by rules of the
Agreements.
(3) J. W. Berry and J. T. Archibald and their successor, or successors, occupying the (relief) position established by Superintendent
F. W. Ferguson, effective January 14, 1950, be compensated for their
services performed, including travel and waiting time to and from
their headquarters point, transportation expenses, if any, and lodging and food allowance, retroactive to January 14 1950, as provided
in Rule 36s/z of the emorandum of Agreement, dated August 5,
1950, effective September 1, 1949. Until headquarters point is designated by Carrier, allowances due employes for travel and waiting
time, transportation expenses and lodging and food, shall be calculated on basis of "headquarters point being recognized as that
where the employe maintains his headquarters".
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 the complainant party; and
That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of March 10,
1953, the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request
is hereby granted.
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540
AWARD
Case dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST: 1Sgd.) A. Ivan Tummon
Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of March, 1953.