NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY (Line West)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of The
Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the New York Central Railroad (Line
West of Buffalo) that:
Case No. 1
1. The carrier violated the agreement between the parties on
December 12, 1951 when it abolished the second and third shifts
at Albany, Ohio, without abolishing the manual block work between Albany, Ohio and Meigs, Ohio in connection with the movement of trains and track cars between these points, and turned such
work over to employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Grosvenor, Ohio, whose seniority rights are confined to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
2. Carrier shall be required to restore such manual block work
to employes covered by New York Central Seniority District No.
10 roster.
Case No. 2
1. The carrier violated the agreement between the parties
on January 26, 1953 when it abolished the first, second, and third
shifts at Meigs, Ohio, without abolishing the manual block work
between Meigs, Ohio and Hobson, Ohio in connection with the
movement of trains and track cars between those points, and
turned such work over to employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Grosvenor, Ohio, whose seniority rights are confined to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
2. Carrier shall now be required to restore such manual block
work to employes covered by New York Central Seniority District
No. 10 roster.
3. The senior idle employe on each shift, entitled to the work
(to be determined by a joint check of the carrier's records), be
allowed a day's pay on each shift of each day a violation occurs.
Case No. 3
1. The carrier violated the agreement between the parties on
July 28, 1952 when it abolished the third shift at Chauncey, Ohio;
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and on December 8, 1952, when it abolished the second shift at
Chauncey, Ohio, without abolishing the manual block work between Chauncey, Ohio, and BK (Corning, Ohio), in connection with
the movement of trains and track cars between those points, and
turned such work over to employes of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway at Armitage, Ohio, whose seniority rights are confined to the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
2. Carrier shall now be required to restore such manual
block work to employes covered by New York Central Seniority
District No. 10 roster.
3. The senior idle employe on each shift, entitled to the work
(to be determined by a joint check of the Carrier's records), be
allowed a day's pay on each shift of each day a violation occurs.
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 February
21, 1956, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the
Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which
request is hereby granted.
AWARD
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST: (Sgd.) A. Ivan Tummon
Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of March, 1956.