PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


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

(a) The Southern Pacific Transportation Company violated the Agreement between the Company and t by the Brotherhood of Railroad Signal-an, effective April 1, 1947 (reprinted April 1, 1958 including revisions), and particularly Rule 13, which resulted in violation of Rule 70.

(b) Claimants designated /G. M. Gunter, G. W. Smith, and M. 0. Waits/ be compensated at their respective overtime rates of pay for June 15, 1972 when junior employes Mr. W. A. Anderson, Leading Signalman and Mr. D. E. McClain, Signalman, were used to hours at time and one-half rate. /Carrier's File: SIG-148-214/

OPINION OF BOARD: The issue involved in this dispute, concerning the assign-
ment of overtime, is whether the employes in the Sacramento Signal Shop of Carrier constitute a "gang" within the meaning of Rule 13 of the Agreement.

The question herein has been decided in Awards 19920 and 20416 which are controlling. We concur with the opinions expressed therein.





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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                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: ble

Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of September 1974.