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 when,
on April 15, 1952, it abolished the position of Freight Claim Adjuster,
Office of
General Freight Claim Agent, Tyler, Texas, occupied by
J. F. McDonough, and distributed the work among other positions,
one official position, other Freight Claim Adjuster positions and one
position with lesser pay than that of Freight Claim Adjuster.
(2) That Mr. J. F. McDonough be reimbursed for the difference between the salary paid him after April 15, 1952, and the salary
he would have been paid had the position not been improperly abolished April 15, 1952, until the violation is corrected.
(3) That the position of Freight Claim Adjuster be re-established and the road work now being performed by the Assistant
General Freight Claim Agent, formerly performed by the Freight
Claim Adjusters, and the office work now being done by lower daily
rated employes be returned thereto.
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 employe involved in this dispute are respectively
carrier and employe 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 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, 1858.