BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that the Carrier violated and continues to violate the terms of the currently effective Agreement:
1. When on or about November 9, 1951, clerical work specifically classified as "apportionment of revenue" on shipments of freight billed from various stations located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Baltimore and Ohio; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; and Michigan Central Railroads, to various stations located on the Illinois Central Railroad, was unilaterally, without conference and/or agreement, transferred from the seniority district identified as "Auditor of Freight Receipts" to another seniority district identifield as "Special Auditor," and
2. When on subsequent dates, clerical work specifically classified as "apportionment of revenue" on shipments of freight billed from various stations on various other railroads, to various stations on the Illinois Central Railroad, the Carrier unilaterally, without conference and/or agreement, continued to transfer said class of clerical work from the seniority district identified as "Auditor of Freight Receipts" to another seniority district identified as "Special Auditor," and
3. That all such class of clerical work shall now be restored to employes in the Auditor of Freight Receipts seniority district, and all of the employes in said seniority district adversely affected be reimbursed for any monetary loss incurred by them, and
4. That all employes in the Special Auditor's seniority district on whom said "apportionment of revenue" work was forced upon, be paid the difference in the rates of pay attaching to positions and paid to employes in the special auditor's seniority district for performance of said "apportionment of revenue" work, and the rates of pay attaching to positions and paid to employes in the Auditor of Freight Receipts seniority district, when this class of work was performed manually by the latter group of employes, until this matter is satisfactorily and finally resolved.
NOTE: Proper claimant(s) and reparation due to be determined by joint check of Carrier's payroll and other records.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board after giving the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the Carrier and Employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein;
That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by the complainant party; and
That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of November 20, 1956, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third Division of their desire to withdraw this case from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.