THIRD DIVISION

(Supplemental)




PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY, AIRLINE AND STEAMSHIP

CLERKS, FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND

STATION EMPLOYES




STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-6148) that:






EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: Under date of April 14, 1961, the Carrier and the Employes entered into an Agreement to (copy previously furnished your Board):







Effective April 1, 1964, the Carrier superseded its station accounting plan by a centralized accounting system, under which the detail of all agencies' accounts are maintained in the office of Auditor of Station Accounts, Comptroller Department Seniority District No. 19, instead of in the various station agency offices as was done under the old plan. (Exhibit A.)


As a result of this centralization of station accounting the following transfer of work from the station agency offices specified below to the Comptroller Department took place:









Page 1 of Exhibit B is statement furnished the Employes by the Carrier, and by mutual agreement between the Parties constitutes notices as required under the provisions of Section 1, Paragraph 2, of the April 14, 1961 Memorandum Agreement. Page 2 of Exhibit B is statement of Clerk E. P. Oxley indicating that some sixty minutes of work per day attaching to his position at Oak Hill, West Virginia was transferred into Comptroller Department Seniority District No. 19, as such information was not furnished to the Em-


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OPINION OF BOARD: Organization's case is based on its claim that "the work of the positions involved had diminished through the transfer of work attaching thereto in part to Comptroller Department Seniority District No. 19 to the extent that the Carrier deemed such positions unnecessary." It is undisputed (with regard to two of the three positions involved) that from 60 to 100 minutes of work per day were so transferred. But Carrier claims that this transfer of work did not result in such reduction in the work as to require the abolishment of the positions; that, in fact, the work diminished to an extent requiring the abolishment of the positions as a result of lessening of the general volume of work at the involved locations over a period of time culminating with the elimination of LCL freight handling just before the abolishment of the positions.


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Had the 60 to 100 minutes a day of transferred work not been transferred, and had the general flow of other work lessened to the extent that in fact it did, the question is whether the involved positions would, as claimed by the Organization, have had to be continued, or whether they could have been abolished and the remaining work assigned to other positions remaining at the involved locations. This record does not demonstrate that it would have been necessary to maintain the involved positions to perform the work had the work not been transferred. It was up to the Organization to make its ease by proving that the transfer of the work did in fact diminish the work to the extent that the positions were deemed unnecessary; this it failed to do.


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










Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of July 1968.

Keenan Printing Co., Chicago, 111.

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