NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-19022
Robert A. Franden, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Signalmen on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company on
behalf of:
Signalmen J. Schmidinger, J. Bennett, J. Lightcap, and M. Sar; and
Signal Helper G. Fech. Claim is for two (2) days' pay at their current respective rates due to v
OPINION OF BOARD: As part of the elimination of a grade crossing at South
Plainfield, N.J. it was necessary to move a power switch
machine some eight hundred feet. The Switch machine was mounted on timbers.
Claimant signal gang disconnected the rods and wiring attached to the switch
point and reconnected them at the new location. The actual moving of the
switch machine was done by using a crane operated by Maintenance of Way employes. The Organization a
as follows:
"Preamble
Agreement between the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and
the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America covering rates
of pay, hours of service and working conditions of Signal Department Employes.
"Scope
This agreement covers rates of pay, hours of service and
working conditions of all employes in the Signal Department
(except supervisory forces above the rank of foreman, clerical
forces and engineering forces) engaged in the work of construction, installation, inspecting, testin
of signals, interlocking plants, automatic highway crossing
protection devices and their appurtenances, wayside cab signal,
train stop and train control equipment, car retarder systems,
centralized traffic control systems, shop repairing of relays,
signals, switch magnets, motors, et cetera, bonding of track for
signal and interlocking purposes, and all other work generally
recognized as signal work.
Award Number 19385 Page 2
Docket Number SG-19022
"No employes other than those classified herein will be
required or permitted to perform any of the work covered by
the Scope of this agreement.
"It is understood the following classifications shall include
all of the employes of the signal department performing the work
described under the heading 'Scope',"
This case was presented and briefed along with Docket No. SG-19020.
For the reasons set out in Award 19384 rendered in that case we will
sustain 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
That the Agreement was violated.
A W A R D
Claim sustained.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
riK
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of July 1972.