NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
(Eastern District)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the System Committee of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express
and Station Employes, that
(1) Carrier violated effective Agreement when without notice
they abolished clerical position, Bonner Springs, Kansas, at close of
business April 20, 1953.
(2) The Carrier should reimburse L. L. Harvey, the incumbent
of abolished position, eight hours pay per day at straight time rate
from April 21, 1953 to April 26, 1953, (5 days).
(3) Carrier should also pay Clerk John L. Davis and Rate and
Revising Clerk Francis Staab, the two remaining Clerks at Bonner
Springs, for four hours each day starting with April 22, 1953 on
which day the duties of the abolished clerical position were transferred and performed by employes outside the clerical agreement.
This claim to continue until such time as Carrier returns all clerical
work now being performed by Telegrapher-Clerk to the Clerical force
at Bonner Springs.
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 parts by complainant party, and
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That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of
January 25, 1957, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the
Secretary of the Third Division, requesting withdrawal of 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 15th day of February, 1957.