NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
(Supplemental)
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-6317) that:
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: On August 5, 1965, employes in the Westbound Department of the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau (Seniority District No. 9) were notified by the Carrier that they would no longer receive any shipping orders covering the movement of empty Piggyback Trailers being returned to shippers. The trailers referred to move eastward with meat and return only containing meat hooks. The bills covering the westbound movement are picked up by New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau messenger and proved, routed and entered in car books, billed, stripped and mailed by employes in the Westbound Department of the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau.
The work has been performed by employes in the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau (Seniority District No. 9) since inception of Piggyback. Approximately 200 trailers a week are involved.
CARRIER'S STATEMENT OF FACTS: This dispute involves a change in procedures of preparing non-revenue waybills covering return movement of empty piggyback meat trailers in crder to eliminate duplication of effort by the piggyback yard clerical force and clerical employes in the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau.
Prior to August 5, 1965, piggyback clerks in Croxton Yard, N. J., prepared a non-revenue waybill, assigning a pre-designated waybill number to cover return movement of Plan 11 empty meat trailers to originating shipper via reverse routing. This non-revenue waybill was then picked up by messenger and taken to the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau (NYTSAB), where another non-revenue waybill was prepared showing the identical information, including waybill number, that appeared on the nonrevenue waybill prepared by the piggbyback clerical force. No rating, proving or routing was required by NYTSAB forces, as the movement was nonrevenue and the waybill was utilized solely as a car movement bill to return the empty trailers to the shipper.
Subsequent to August 5, 1965, the duplication of these non-revenue waybills governing return routing of Plan IL piggyback meat trailers by employes in the NYTSAB was discontinued. However, the "non-revenue" or car movement waybill continued to be made by the piggyback clerks in the same manner as before, except the use of a waybill number was discontinued and each non-revenue waybill was marked "MEMO" in the space normally utilized for a waybill number. There was no increase in the amount of work performed by the clerks in the piggyback yard as a result of this procedure. There was a decrease in the duplicate work performed by the Bureau forces. There was no increase in clerical forces in the piggyback yard, nor a decrease in the forces in the New York Terminal Station Accounting Bureau as a result of discounting this duplication of work.
On August 12, 1965, Local Chairman instituted the present claim with the Manager, NYTSAB, Hoboken, N. J. (Carrier Exhibit A). Claim was denied on August 17, 1965 (Carrier Exhibit B) and thereafter handled on appeal in accordance with the rules and procedures for handling claims on this property up to and including Carrier's highest officer, as evidenced by the following pertinent exhibits:
OPINION OF BOARD: The evidence properly before the Board is insufficient to permit us to find that there has or has not been a transfer of work.