M41N.3ee Award No. 14454
Docket No. TE-12234
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD





PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

TRANSPORTATION-COMMUNICATION EMPLOYEES UNION

(Formerly The Order of Railroad Telegraphers)




STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Norfolk Southern Railway that:




EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: Carrier's main line extends westward from Norfolk, Virginia to Charlotte, North Carolina, a distance of 381 miles. Raleigh, N. C. is located 226 miles from Norfolk. Glendon, N. C. is situated 61 miles west of Raleigh. Parkwood, N. C. (Formerly Hallison, N. C.) is 11 miles farther west, approximately 72 miles from Raleigh.

The agreement, published August 1, 1937, listed Glendon and Hallison under Article 32-Wage Scale, which provided:

telephone instruments installed at or about these stations shall be removed by July 1, 1937," amongst which stations listed was Glendon and Hallison (now Parkwood). These instruments were removed and the only telephonic communication in the vicinity of these stations is located in a wayside telephone booth outside of the stations and on the right of way. At the time of the May 20, 1937, agreement Vanceboro was an open telegraph office, but was subsequently reclassified as a star agency.


OPINION OF BOARD: The claims herein are predicated on telephone messages by Star Agents. This issue has previously been before this Division of the Board on numerous occasions. Similar claims involving the same parties, the same agreement and similar contentions were considered by the Division in Awards 9572, 9573, 10825, 10836, 11509, 11512, 11610, 11611, 12628, 12629 and 12630. In all of those Awards the claims were denied. The previous Awards are not palpably wrong, and in accordance therewith the claims herein will be denied.


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



That the Carrier and 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








Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 24th day of May 1966.

Keenan Printing Co., Chicago, Ill. Printed in U.S.A.
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