NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

Paul C. Dugan, Referee

(a) Carrier violated the current Signalmen's Agreement, as amended, particularly Rule 33, when it did not furnish free transportation for T&T gang employes making week-end trips home. (Carrier's Files: SG-6800, SG-6801, SG-6802)

(b) Carrier be required now to reimburse Gang Foreman N. Miskowsky $23.20 bus fare, and $43.20 automobile mileage allowance (540 miles at 8 cents), for a total of $66.40 for the month of February, 1968. (Carrier's File: SG-6800)

(c) Carrier be required now to reimburse N. Miskowsky, T. J. Tolbert, W. D. Raymond, J. E. Richardson, J. L. Miller, and all present and future members of this gang, for expenses for week-end trips home, including bus fare and/or automobile mileage allowance, commencing with the months of July, August and September, 1968, and continuing so long as they are not furnished free transportation under Rule 33 for week-end trips home. This includes but is not limited to the following:

(Carrier's File: SG-6801)

There is attached hereto and made a part hereof as Carrier's Exhibit C copy of the General Chairman's reply to Carrier's denial letter of August 22nd.

Although there was no change in operations or conditions from that previously existing, no claims for weekend travel expense was made during the months of March, April, May and June, 1968. During that period the system camp gang worked at the following locations:

Mode, Ill. (2) on print-March 1-March 21

Findlay, Ill. (3) on print-March 22-March 28

Sullivan, Ill. (4) on print-March 29-April 5

Chicago Heights, Ill. (5) on print-April 6-April 25

Clinton, Ind. (1) on print-April 26-June 3

Purcell, Ind. (6) on print-June 4-June 30

Under date of November 2, 1968, the General Chairman presented in behalf of Foreman Miskowsky and four members of the System T&T camp gang claim for weekend travel expense for the months of July, August and September, 1968 and for all subsequent months the alleged violation continues. Copy of the Chairman's letter is attached hereto and made a part hereof as Carrier's Exhibit D.

(Exhibits not reproduced.)

OPINION OF BOARD: Similar disputes submitted to this Board in the past have been consistently denied. See Awards 12351 (Yagoda), 16745 (Friedman) and 18152 (Dugan). We will deny the 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