NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number CL-19277
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
( Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-6974)
that:
(1) Carrier violated the effective Agreement between the parties
effective January 1, 1946, revised and amended effective March 1, 1964, when
on May 23, 1970, work which had heretofore been exclusively assigned to the
clerical craft and class was required to be performed by others outside the
Scope of the Clerks' Agreement, specifically yardmen and yardmasters.
(2) Mr. C. T. Swaringim now be allowed eight hours at the pro rata
rate of pay of Yard Clerk Position in the St. Louis Terminal for May 23, 1970
as a result of the violation of the Agreement by Carrier and further that the
duties of ground checking of cars when required which has been removed from
the Agreement now promptly be restored to employes of the Clerical craft and
class.
OPINION OF BOARD: The dispute herein arose in Carrier's St. Louis Terminal,
where the Carrier has in service an I.B.M. perpetual car
location inventory and mechanized yard check system. Clerical employes pre
pare yard check of cars from this mechanized system, which checks are furnished
yardmasters and switch crews as required in the performance of their work.
On the claim date, the yard clerical forces furnished the tower yardmaster and switch engine cre
the switch crew commenced switching track No. 16 from such list a question arose
about four cars in the track. The matter was reported to the yardmaster. The
yardmaster instructed the switch crew to ascertain and advise him the stenciled
markings on the cars and whether they were loads or empties, which is the basis
for the claim.
From our study of the record, we find that the work complained of
was incidental to the work of the yard crew switching track No. 16, and the
record does not show that the information furnished by the yard crew was used
for any other purpose. The claim will, therefore, be denied.
Award Number 19345 Page 2
Docket Number CL-19277
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record
and all the ev;.dence, 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.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
~ad.
Dared at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of July 1972.
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