STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-5654) that:
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: As result of Finance Docket No. 21974, wherein the Interstate Commerce Commission approved the purchase by the Southern Railway Company (or its assignee) of the Georgia & Florida Railroad, the General Chairmen representing all crafts of employes covered by their respective labor organization's agreement, signed an Agreement with President J. P. Belvin of the newly organized Georgia & Florida Railway Company, which Agreement provided for the protective conditions for such employes as was recommended in ICC Finance Docket No. 21974. Copy of this Agreement which is self-explanatory is hereto attached and identified as Employes' Exhibit No. 1.
Subsequent to the execution of the above mentioned Agreement the General Chairman held a conference with Director of Personnel E. L. Cartrett, the highest Officer designated by the Georgia & Florida Railway Company to handle claims and grievances under our Agreement. As result of this conference, understanding was reached therein that the General Chairman would put out a letter outlining the provisions of the Agreement of June 13, 1963 and the purpose of this letter was to give the employes affected their choice of settlements as outlined therein and copy of this form letter was sent to all employes of the old Georgia & Florida Railroad which was reorganized as the Georgia & Florida Railway Company. Copy of this form letter which was returned by E. Z. Holton, the claimant, under date of July 15, 1963 is hereto attached and identified as Employes' Exhibit No. 2. It will be noted that
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By his own statement, heretofore cited, Claimant clearly demonstrates that he has not brought himself within the purview of the June 13, 1963 Agreement. In order for the previsions of that Agreement to become applicable, the employe must have been "deprived of employment" before he can be considered eligible for either a monthly allowance or a lump sum settlement. He is not "deprived of employment" when his job is abolished if he has seniority rights to other positions. One who declines to exercise his seniority simply prefers to be unemployed. Furthermore, had Claimant been deprived of employment as he alleges there is no showing that it was "as a result of the work being transferred to the Southern Railway" as provided for in the June 13, 1963, Agreement.
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