Award No. 9015 Docket No. MW-9607 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

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

(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement of February 14, 1956 when it required the Section Crew assigned to Section No. 362 to discontinue removing snow from switches at 5:00 P. M. and thereafter assigned and/or otherwise permitted train service employes to perform snow removal work on the switches within the territorial limits of Section No. 362.

(2) section Foreman T. Felker and Sectionmen B. Bedijian, W. S. Archer, and C. Bruno each be allowed a minimum payment of two hours and forty minutes at time and one-half of their respective basic hourly rates as per Rule 22, account of the violation referred to in Part (1) of this claim.

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 Carrier and Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved .Tune 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 has been held and concluded. Under date of September 23, 1959, the parties jointly advised the Acting Secretary of the Third Division of their desire to withdraw this case from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.

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