Award No. 7984 Docket No. CL-8012

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY

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

(1) The Carrier violated the terms of the currently effective Agreement between the parties when on August 5, 1954 it abolished the position of cashier at Chaffee, Missouri and unilaterally assigned the duties thereof to the Agent who holds no seniority or other rights under the Clerks' Agreement without conference or agreement.

(2) Work normally attached to the Cashier's position as of August 5, 1954, be restored to clerical employes, and

(3) Ray Fatchett, G. F. Martin, A. C. Grojean, R. H. Moore, William Daugherty, J. A. Southwick, I. E. Johnson and all others who were adversely affected by reimbursed for all losses sustained to be determined by joint check of Carrier's payroll and such other records as Carrier may deem necessary to accurately determine wage losses of employes by reason of this violation until corrected.

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 complainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of June 24, 1957, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the

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