NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
BESSEMER AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the General Committee of The
Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad that:
1. Carrier violated the terms of the agreement between the
parties when beginning on Saturday, May 8, 1954, and continuing
until the violation is corrected, it abolished the relief position at
Annandale, Pennsylvania, and transferred the work of receiving and
transmitting mine reports formerly handled by the relief operator
on the Saturday rest days of the position to employes not covered
by the agreement at Branchton, Pennsylvania.
2. Carrier shall be required to pay eight hours at straight time
rate to either the relief operator that was displaced or the senior
idle extra employe, or in the event that neither the relief operator
nor senior idle extra employe was available, then the Carrier shall
compensate W. R. Renick, Agent at Annandale, for eight hours
at the time and one-half rate beginning on Saturay, blay 8, 1954,
and continuing until the violation is corrected.
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:
That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment
Board ex parts by the complainant party; and
That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of December 3,
1956, the complainant party 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: A. Ivan Tummon
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of December, 1956.
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