NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-16437
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claims of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) that:
(a) The Southern Pacific Company violated the current Signalmen's Agreement (effective April 1,
it failed and/or declined to apply the Scope Rule,
which
resulted in the violation
of Rule 70, in assigning recognized signal work to emplbyes-not covered by the
Signalmen's Agreement at the signal system on the engine washing facility at
Eugene Yard, Oregon, on or about March 10, 1965.
(b) Messrs. W. Barber and A. J. Trojan be allowed eight (8) hours at
their respective time and one-half overtime rates of pay for a date which the Carrier's records will
(c) Messrs. Barber and Trojan be allowed one (1) hour each at their
respective time and one-half overtime rates of pay for each week that the Carrier
continues to violate the agreement by assigning other than signal forces to the
maintenance of this signal system.
(Carrier's File: SIG 152-179)
OPINION OF BOARD: The washing machinery and apparatus is not part of the signal
system, and from the record, does not belong to the signalmen
under the scope rule.
FINDINGS; The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties
to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole
record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
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
.ward Number
19413
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pocket Number SC-16437
That the Agreement was
not
violated,
A W A R D
Claim denied.
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By qrder of ThiXU Division
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E'ceeutive Secretary
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