THIRD DIVISION
(Supplemental)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen on the Pennsylvania Railroad Company that:
[Carrier's File: System Docket 288-Philadelphia Region, Harrisburg Case 16528-A.]
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: This dispute arose as a result of the Carrier assigning a Leading Maintainer to perform Maintainer duties without the assistance of a Signalman or Signal Maintainer outside of regularly assigned hours. Under the effective Agreement, a Leading Maintainer and a Signal Maintainer are different classifications of employes.
At 7:57 P. M. on Monday, May 29, 1961, the flashers (road crossing signals) at New Port Road, Leola, were reported to be operating continuously. Subsequently, Maintainer Barrow, on whose section the trouble in question occurred, was called but no one answered his phone. Following this, Maintainers Book and Morris were called but no one answered their phones.
Then the Carrier, after one hour and three minutes, located Leading Maintainer H. C. Resh who responded to the call. Claimant C. J. Stofko, a Maintainer with headquarters at Columbia, Penna., was available but was not called. Claimant Stofko could have responded sooner than did Leading Maintainer Resh, as it took one hour and three minutes following the report to
In awards too numerous to require citation, your Honorable Board has consistently refused to allow punitive rate for time not worked. Therefore, if it should be decided, contrary to the evidence set forth above, that a sustaining award is here indicated, the Claimant would under no circumstances be entitled to more than four hours' pay at the straight time rate.
It is respectfully submitted that the National Railroad Adjustment Board, Third Division, is required by the Railway Labor Act to give effect to the said Agreement and to decide the present dispute in accordance therewith.
The Railway Labor Act in Section 3, First, Subsection (i), confers upon the National Railroad Adjustment Board the power to hear and determine disputes growing out "of grievances or out of the interpretations or application of Agreements concerning rates of pay, rules or working conditions." The National Railroad Adjustment Board is empowered only to decide the said dispute in accordance with the Agreement between the parties thereto. To grant the claim of the Employes in this case would require the Board to disregard the Agreement between the parties and impose upon the Carrier conditions of employment and obligations with reference thereto not agreed upon by the parties to this dispute. The Board has no jurisdiction or authority to take such action.
The Carrier has shown that no rule of the applicable Agreement supports the claim of the Employes and no violation of said Rules Agreement could possibly have occurred.
Therefore, your Honorable Board is respectfully requested to dismiss or deny the claim of the Employes in this matter.
OPINION OF BOARD: In a joint statement the parties agree on the following facts which gave rise to this claim:
Claimant C. J. Stofko held a Maintainer position with work days Monday through Friday and rest days Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, May 29, 1961, at 7:57 P. M. the flashers at New Port Road Leola which is located just East of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, were reported not to be in operating condition. Maintainer Barrow, on whose section the trouble occurred, was called but could not be reached. Maintainers Book and Morris were successively callde but they did not answer their phones. Carrier then reached Leading Maintainer H. C. Resh who responded to the call and worked four hours.
The claim made here is similar to the one presented in Award 13819 involving the same Agreement. For the reasons given in that Award, we also hold that this claim is without merit.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds: 13820-14 772
DISSENT TO AWARD No. 13820,
DOCKET No. SG-13778
CARRIER MEMBERS' ANSWER TO LABOR MEMBER'S
DISSENT TO AWARD 13820, DOCKET SG-13778