NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20282

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-20017

Irwin M. Lieberman, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Southern Pacific Transportation Company

( (Pacific Lines)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation Company:

(a) That the Southern Pacific Transportation Company violated Section 2 of the Mediation Agreement, Case No. A-8433, dated April 21, 1969.

(b) That Mr. J. R. Elson be compensated for eight (8) hours at his straight-time rate of pay for August 3, 1971, (his birthday) as claimed on Form 201-E for 1st. period August 1971. (Carrier's File: SIG 162-29)

OPINION OF BOARD: The dispute herein is a companion dispute to that

covered by Award 20281 In this case the birth-

day holiday occurred during the strike and the handling on the property
paralleled that of the companion case.

For the reasons stated in Award 20281 , we find that the Claim is barred since it was not presented to the authorized officer within the 60 day time limit provided in Rule 58.

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

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That the Claim is barred.

A W A R D

Claim dismissed.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUST ,BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: -Cecfuitr
ive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of June 1974.