Award No. 7637 Docket No. CL-7808

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that,

(a) Carrier violated Article II Section 3 of the National Agreement of August 21, 1954 when they failed to grant holiday pay to Employes (furloughed Employes) who shape out and worked continuously prior and after the holidays, i.e., Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day and subsequent holidays, and

(b) that Employes Richard Anderson, P. Zentek, Norman Mosby, Theo. Brown, C. Terranova and other similarly affected Employes be paid one day's pay each, or average incentive or tonnage earnings, as the individual case may be, for the holidays mentioned in this case.

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 the 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 was waived by the parties. Under date of January 10, 1957, 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.

AWARD