NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number TD-18901
(American Train Dispatchers Association
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the American Train Dispatchers Association that:
(a) The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (hereinafter "the
Carrier") violated the effective Agreement between the parties, Article 1
thereof in particular, when on June 30, 1969 , it required and/or permitted
other than those covered thereby, to perform work covered by said Agreement.
(b) Carrier shall now compensate Train Dispatcher W. F. Haynes
one day's compensation at time and one-half the daily rate applicable to
Assistant Chief Dispatcher for said violation on the rest day of Claimant.
OPINION OF BOARD: Employes allege that the Trainmaster at Enid, Oklahoma
issued the following instructions:
"Enid Okla 945 p.m., June 30, 1969
HOB SO
RUN TRAINS AS FOLLOWS JULY 1, 1969
N0. 638 WITH 3 UNITS 630 AM
NO 663 WITH 2 UNITS ON ASSIGNED CREWS REST
NO 632 WITH L UNIT 830 AM
BENDER TURN WITH 2 UNITS AT 11 AM
AVARD TURN WITH 1 UNIT AT 1 PM
SOUTHARD SWITCHER WITH 1 UNIT AT 2 PM
WHH"
HOB is the Chief Train Dispatcher, H. 0. Buzbee. The instructions
were sent to him and not to any of the train crews. A statement that the "above
instructions were acted upon by the forces at Enid, Oklahoma'is a mere assertion
and not evidence that the train crews acted directly upon them. Every indication points to the fact
Chief Dispatcher alone, which is a normal and proper business procedure and that
the crews did not act upon the message but rather from instructions later conveyed to them by the Ch
are identical.
Award Number 19240 Page 2
Docket Number TD-18901
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 Carrier did not violate the Agreement.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
' NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of May 1972.
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