STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: The Claimant Painter Foreman and Painters have established and hold seniority within Group 2 of the Bridge and Building Sub-Department and were regularly assigned as such to B&B Paint Gang No. 1 on the Los Angeles Division.
During the period from March 4 through April 7, 1960, the Carrier assigned and used Bridge and Building Carpenters and Helpers assigned to B&B Carpenter Gang No. 6, who hold no seniority rights in the class of painters, to augment and assist B&B Paint Gang No. 1 in painting the Ventura River Steel Bridge located on the Carrier's main line just West of Ventura, California.
The painter's work performed by the carpenter classes of employes consisted of cleaning (scraping and sandblasting) in preparatory for painting and applying paint to the bridge in question. 655 man-hours were consumed by these employes in the performance of this work.
OPINION OF BOARD: This dispute involves the same issues, parties, Agreement, factual situations and contentions as those presented in Award 13357. For the reasons contained in that Award, we hold the Agreement was not violated.
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; and