BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS, FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY-TEXAS AND LOUISIANA
LINES
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood, (GIr5494), that:
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: During and immediately following World War II the carrier employed a number of females as Common Laborers at its Houston General Stores in Houston, Texas. Among these female laborers was Mrs. Georgia Simpson who was employed on March 16, 1945. From this date until May 8, 1962, she bid in and was assigned to a number of Common or Storehouse Laborer positions. Likewise, she made a number of displacements on similar positions during the above period when in a displacing position due to force reduction with no question being raised as to her qualifications to perform laborer's work in the Store Department. As a result of force reduction in the laborer forces she was in a displacing position on May 8, 1962, and made request to displace Storehouse Laborer J. M. Munoz, her junior. Her request to exercise her seniority over a junior laborer in accordance with the rules was denied by Purchasing Agent T. E. Martin and confirmed in his letter of May 10, 1962. On May 22, Mrs. Simpson filed claim for a day's pay at the pro rata rate of Storehouse Laborer for May 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 and each succeeding day thereafter when the carrier used J. M. Munoz to perform laborer's work.
Wherefore, premise considered, Carrier respectfully requests that the Eoard deny in all its particulars this claim.
OPINION OF BOARD: This is a companion case to Award No. 14055. It involves the same parties, Agreement, issue and measure of proof. For the reasons stated in that Award we will deny the instant claim.
FINDINGS; The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, 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
LABOR MEMBER'S DISSENT TO AWARD 14057,
DOCKET CL-14837
This is a companion case to Award No. 14055, Docket Cd,14821; it involves the same parties, Agreement, issue and measure of proof. For the reasons stated in my dissent to Award 14055, I register equal dissent to this Award 14057.