Award No. 8238 Docket No. CL-8758

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

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

(a) Carrier violated rules of the Clerks' Agreement at Gwin, Mississippi, when on June 18, 1955, it unilaterally assigned clerical work theretofore attached to clerical positions to be performed by employes of Carrier occupying positions that are not included within the Scope Rule of its Agreement with the Brotherhood, revised as of February 1, 1954.

(b) G. L. Lyon, B. C. Martin, W. H. Hays and H. D. Black, the regular occupants of Position Nos. 320, 321, 323 and the Relief position which were abolished effective June 18, 1955, and all other employes adversely affected as a result of assigning the work normally attached thereto by Agreement to outsiders, be compensated for wage loss sustained retroactive to June 18, 1955, and forward to date the Rules violation is corrected.

NOTE: Reparation to be determined by joint check of Carrier's payroll and other records.

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 February 4, 1958, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to

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