NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,

FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES

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

1. That Carrier's refusal to upwardly adjust rates of pay of two of the remaining four Rate and Revising Clerks' positions on office of A. F. & P. A., Chicago, concurrently with rearrangement of the rate revising work following abolishment of the fifth Rate and Revising Clerk's position on August 19, 1957 is in violation of the rules of the parties agreement.

2. That rates of the two lower rated positions, namely that assigned to Miss B. Byrne at rate $17.60 per day and Mrs. J. Wolfel at rate $17.34 per day be adjusted to rate $18.33 per day or that paid the other two Rate and Revising Clerks, retroactive to August 19, 1957.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the Carrier and Employe involved in this dispute are respectively: carrier and employe 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 the complainant party; and

That hearing thereon was waived by the parties and under date of December 1, 1961, 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.

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