NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
THE DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN
RAILROAD COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the General Committee of The
Order of Railroad Telegraphers on The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, that:
1. The Carrier violated and continues to violate the parties'
Agreement, which includes item 13, paragraph 3 (F) of the Mediation Agreement A-4167 dated June 9, 1953, when, effective May 8,
1957, it unilaterally consolidated the Ticket-Agent-Operator's position
at the Passenger Station, and the Freight-Agent Operator's position
at the Freight Station, Paterson, New Jersey, (one mile apart), and
thereafter required the occupant of the consolidated position to perform service at both locations.
2. The Carrier shall, because of the violation set forth above,
restore the respective Ticket-Agent-Operator's and the FreightAgent-Operator's positions to the Agreement, and return the former
occupants thereto, and compensate them in accordance with the provisions of Article 15, for service performed away from their regular
assignment, and
3. The Carrier shall, in addition, return all other employes to
their respective positions who were, as a result of said consolidation,
improperly displaced from their regularly assigned positions, and
compensate them in accordance with the provisions of Article 15, for
service performed away from their regular assignments, and finally
4. The Carrier, shall, in addition to the foregoing, pay to the
senior idle employe, extra in preference, a day's pay at the rate of the
consolidated position, for each day commencing May 8, 1957, or until
the said positions are restored to the Agreement and their former
occupant returned thereto.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:
That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment
Board ex parte by the complainant party; and
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That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of December 5,
5958, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of
the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, 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 18th day of December, 1958.