Award No. 18602
Docket No. MS-18813
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Robert M. O'Brien, Referee
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
J. CANADAY, ET AL
TEXARKANA UNION STATION TRUST
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
(1) Employes: J. Cannaday, E. M. Combs, A. Black, G. Pilgreen,
E. W. Fomby, V. W. Webb, 1. Crabtree, J. Everett, R. L. Bennett, H.
H. Loper, J. W. Attaway, N. R. Lantrip, W. A. Harvin, O. M. Fields,
J. A. Littleton, O. F. Homes, R. L. Stewart, L. H. Kennedy, Jr.,
W. E. Odom, D. D. Lineberger, P. C. Akins, T. J. Baker, J. A.
Mitchell, B. Harrison, H. A. Dossey, S. M. Stockton, R. L. Webb,
N. W. Brown, A. C. Burt, E. M. Wilburn, F. E. Hickerson, J. C.
Brown, C. E. Ethridge, R. E. Lewis, A. C. Jones, W. T. Gregory,
S. Easley, D. L. Cross, H. T. Ederington, B. E. Test, S. Whatley,
D. L. Howell, W. Sisk, J. P. Willis, G. T. Dossey and B. J. Pankey. The
Employes are represented by John Lineberger of the Firm of Ball &
Cullman, Attorneys at Law, P. O. Box 567, 201 N. East Street,
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701.
(2) Carrier: Texarkana Union Station Trust and Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company. The Director of Labor Relation is Mr. O. B.
Sayers, Room 102, Missouri Pacific Balding, 210 North 13th Street,
St. Louis, Missouri 63103.
OPINION OF BOARD: A review of the record discloses the claim is
predicated on the February 7, 1965 Job Stabilization Agreement, Case No.
A-7128. Article VII, Section 1 of the February 7, 1965 Agreement provides
for the appropriate machinery for the resolution of any dispute involving the
interpretations or application of said agreement.
This Board finds that such procedures established and accepted by the
parties themselves for resolving disputes under the February 7, 1965 Agreement should be respected.
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 respeceively 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 claim should be dismissed.
AWARD
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of THIRD DIVISION
ATTEST: E. A. Killeen
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 23rd day of June 1971.
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