NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number TD-18904
(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 27, 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 G. W. Daugherty
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.
JPINION OF BOARD: The following message was issued by the Trainmaster to the
Chief Dispatcher:
"Enid Okla 1025 PM June 27, 1969
HOB SO
"Run trains June 28th as follows:
No 638 with 4 units, first rested
chain gang crew. Extra south with
3 units 10 AM tie up at Clinton.
No 632 with 3 units 11 AM and give
trailing unit to No 631 at meeting
points. Extra west with 2 units
100 PM.
WHH"
The message was sent to the Chief Dispatcher and not the train crews.
There is no probative evidence in the record that the crews acted upon this
message. The facts here are identical with those in Awards 19240 and 19241
wherein this Board denied the claims. For the reasons stated in awards adjudicating those claims
too, has no merit.
Award Number 19243 page 2
Docket Number TD-18904
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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