(Union Railroad Company PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: This is to serve notice as required by the rules
 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board of our intention to file an ex parte submission by August 30, 1973 covering an unadjusted dispute between our Company and the United Steelworkers of America (AFT-CIO) Local 1913.

 A dispute exists as to whether or not the Carrier has the right to assign Signal Department employees to install and maintain a monitoring device at the A.S.O. Building in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.

 OPINION OF BOARD: This case is brought to the Board by the Carrier,
 The Union Railroad, relating to a dispute between the Carrier and the United Steelworkers of America, Local 1913, concerning whether or not the Carrie A.S.O. Building in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.

 The record indicates that the work of installing and maintaining similar monitoring devices has been technicians (Signalmen) for over twenty years. This fact is undisputed by the radio technicians.

 Carrier in its submission states that the employes served a Section 6 notice requesting an agreement which would provide the monitoring device at the ASO building be maintained by radio technicians in the mechanical departmen one for negotiation rather than interpretation of the present agreement. It is well recognized that
Based upon the record before us, we find that the Steelworkers Organization has failed to meet the r and their claim, as set forth in the Statement of Claim, is denied. Therefore, the position of the Carrier is sustained.






That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; an




_Position of Carrier is sustained.

                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST; '1wl Q~/ _~
 Executive Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 21st day of March 1975.