4W36, Award No. 18113
Docket No. TE-18180







TRANSPORTATION-COMMUNICATION EMPLOYEES UNION CHICAGO & ILLINOIS MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Transportation-Communication Employees Union on the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway Company, that:




1. Carrier violated the Agreement between the parties when it improperly relieved the following regularly assigned employes for vacations during the year 1967:
















2. Carrier shall compensate the above-named employes eight hours' pay at time and one-half rate for each day improperly relieved.




1. Carrier violated the Agreement between the parties when it improperly relieved the following regularly assigned employes for vacations during the year 1967:





























The Agreement between the parties, dated November 1, 1946, as amended and supplemented, is on file with your Board and by this reference is made a part hereof.


The claims were timely presented, progressed, including conference with highest officer designated by the Carrier to receive appeals, and have retrained declined. The Employes, therefore, appeal to your Honorable Board for adjudication.


These claims arose when the Carrier, after a vacation schedule was established, adviscd the Employes on March 14, 1967 that the Carrier would be unable to release the telegrapher employes for their 1967 vacations. On April B, 1967, the Manager of Personnel requested conference to reschedule the vacations due to the availability of one extra telegrapher resulting from an abolishment of a position, and on April 14, 1967 the vacation schedule was reestablished. On May 3, 1967, the Superintendent advised the Employes' representative that one J. L. Coady was hired temporarily as a vacation relief employe, but would not establish seniority rjghts until after he was used sixty days.


J. L. Coady held a regular assignment to a laborer position under an Agreement between the Carrier and the International Brotherhood of Firemen,


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OPINION OF BOARD: The Clams herein involve the same parties and Agreement and present the same pivotal issue as in Award No, 18112. For reasons stated in that Award we will deny the instant Claims.

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 30th day of September 1970.

Keenan Printing Co., Chicago, 111. Printed in U.S.A.

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