NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
(Supplemental)
Edward A. Lynch, Referee
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Claim of the System Committee of the
Brotherhood (GL-5963) that:
1. Carrier violated the Clerks' Rules Agreement when it established a new position of Chief Yard Clerk at Galewood with duties
and responsibilities over and beyond those of comparable positions
in the seniority district at a rate not reached by agreement in line
with Rule 18.
2. Carrier shall now be required to negotiate an implementing
agreement covering the introduction of IBM machine operations
in the Chicago Terminal Yards which has brought about technological, operational and organizational changes resulting from the
newly established Car Control Program.
3. Carrier shall now be required to compensate employe B. A.
Halverson, his successor or successors, if there be any, for the
difference between the rate established on Chief Yard Clerk Position 476-$25.0304, and $26.00; for each day from March 1, 1965
until an agreement is reached covering the rate of pay for the
position.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: Prior to about March 1, 1965,
the Carrier maintained the following Chief Yard Clerk positions in Seniority
District No. 30, with rates of pay and duties assigned by bulletin as follows:
Pos.
Location No. Daily Rate Duties
Bensenville 0421 $25.2604 Applicants must be capable of
supervising entire yard force during tour of duty. Also operate
IBM machines.
CARRIER'S EXHIBIT A - Letter written by Mr. S. W.
Amour, Assistant to Vice President, to Mr. H. C. Hopper,
Acting General Chairman, under date of July 22, 1965.
CARRIER'S EXHIBIT B - Letter written by Mr. Amour to
Mr. Hopper under date of July 30, 1965.
(Exhibits not reproduced.)
OPINION OF BOARD:
The record before us here is directly on point
with CL-15955, which was decided by Award 15501.
We will follow that Award and deny this Claim.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the
whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the parties waived oral hearing;
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
That the Agreement was not violated.
AWARD
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of THIRD DIVISION
ATTEST: S. H. Schulty
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of October 1967.
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