(American Train Dispatchers Association PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the American Train Dispatchers Association that:

 (a) The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as "the Carrier", viola Agreement between the parties, Article 1 thereof in particular, when, beginning December 4, 1968, it required and permits other than those within the scope of said Agreement to perform work covered thereby.

 (b) The Carrier shall compensate the senior available extra train dispatcher one day's compensation at pro rata daily rate applicable to Assistant Chief Dispatcher for each of the three tricks in a twenty-four (24) hour period for each District, beginning December 8, 1968, and continuing for five (5) days of each week, and at time and one-half at said rate for service required to be performed on the sixth and seventh consecutive days of each week, until said violation ceases.

 (c) In the event no extra train dispatchers are available on any day or days during the period in which said violation continues, then and in such event Carrier shall compensate the senior assigned train dispatcher then available because of observance of his assigned weekly rest days, one day's compensation at time and one-half of daily rate applicable to Assistant Chief Dispatcher for each of such days until the said violation ceases.

 (d) The respective individual claimants entitled to compensation herein claimed shall be determined by a joint check of the Carrier's records.

 OPINION OF BOARD: On December 4, 1968 Carrier discontinued the preparation
 of the 87 Report, which had been compiled by Train Dis
 patchers from the Train Sheet kept by each dispatcher. In place of this
 report Carrier substituted a Train Performance Report which is automatically
 printed out by computer. At issue here is that portion of the Train Per
 formance Report which lists delays. The Organization concedes that except
 for the delays the new report can be automatically prepared by Carrier's
 computer center.

 The 87 Report had been compiled from information telegraphed to the Springfield dispatching office. The dispatchers kept, and still keep, a Train Sheet which lists all of the information required to complete either of the reports with which we are concerned. Carrier's new data system re-


quires various classes of employee to report information directly to the
 computer center. Delays are reported from crew change points and from
 intermediate tie up points. The Organization alleges that this information
 must be "prepared" before it is reported. The record does not show that the
 reporting of delays by telegraphers requires them to perform any work which
 was formerly done by Train Dispatchers. What is at issue here is the com
 pilation of a report from data received at Springfield. This is what the
 dispatchers did. They allege that someone else is now doing that work in
 violation of their agreement. However, the record clearly shows that the
 compilation of the data is performed by computer. We are not dealing with
 a case in which one class of employee now performs work which formerly was
 done by Claimants. We are dealing with a situation in which data processing
 equipment pertorms work which formerly was clone manually. There has
 been no violation of the Agreement and the claim must be denied.

 PINDTNCS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the
 partiies 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

        That the Agreement was not violated.


                    A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of October 1972.