NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the System Committee of the
Brotherhood:
(1) That Carrier violated the Clerks' current Agreement on
December 8, 1952, when it established nine new International Business
Machines positions in the office of Superintendent of Transportation,
Tyler, Texas, at rates of pay which were not in conformity with rates
attaching to comparable positions in other seniority districts of the
Carrier in Tyler, Texas.
(2) That the nine employes originally assigned to the new
positions and all other employes succeeding them thereon, be reimbursed for all wage loss account such violation, from December 8,
1952, until the violation is corrected, such reimbursement to be allowed on the basis of the difference in rates of the positions established and those of comparable positions in the Machine Room
installation, located in the office of Auditor of Disbursements, Tyler,
Texas, in which installation the International Business Machine work
for offices of Auditor of Disbursements and Auditor of Freight
Accounts, Tyler, Texas, was being performed by employes from
three seniority rosters.
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 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 parts by the complainant party; and
That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of
November 7, 1956, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third
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Division of their desire to withdraw this case from further consideration by
the Division, which request is hereby granted.
AWARD
Case dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of THIRD DIVISION
ATTEST: A. Ivan Tummon
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 5th day of December, 1956.