NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-17351
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Union Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of tha Brotherhood of Railroad Signalm
(a) Carrier violated the current Signalmen's Agreement, as amended,
particularly Rule 1 (Scope), when during September and October, 1966, it used
employes not covered by the Agreement to perform Signal Work consisting of the
installation of seventy-six (76) insulated rail joints at the scales being built
at Clairton.
(b) Leading Signalmen William F. Freidhof and Robert J. Hayes each be
paid sixty-four (64) hours at the straight-time rate ($2.9788) and thirty-two
(32) hours at the time and one-half rate ($4.4682) as a result.
(General Chairman's File; U-035.)
OPINION OF BOARD: This dispute concerns the Signalmen's contention that the
work of installing certain rail joints is reserved to them
by their Agreement with the Carrier. It is contended by the Employes that the
rail joints in question are insulated joints of the type used in railroad sig
naling. The Carrier counters in its ex parte submission that the joints were
installed after being modified by omitting the insulating "end post". The Car
rier's defense is not challenged.
We must 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
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Docket Number SG-17351
That the Agreement was not violated.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of May 1972.
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