NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJDSTMERT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

Award Number 20708~1'8


Docket Number SG-20548

A. Sickles, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
(Missouri Pacific Railroad Compsvy

PARTIES TO DISPIT-'E:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Iftherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company for and on behalf of the following named members of Signal Gang
1412, Houston, for an additional payment of six (6) hours each at time and
one-half their respective straight-time hourly rate, account work of their
assignments was denied them when the Carrier assigned another Craft
(Electricians) to install Meter Loops (a part of a Flasher Signal installa
tion) on poles they had set at Huffsmith, Texas, on September 6, and at
Pinehurst, Texas, on September 7, 1972, in violation of the Scope Rule
of the Signalmen's Agreement:

Employee

Classifica+ion

S.T. Rate of Pay

$1075.62 per mo.




C. L. Kemp
A. J. Latiolais
A. F. Newman
D. L. Findlay

Foreman
Signalman
Assistant
Assistant

(General chairman File: M 206. Carrier File: G 225-62)

OPINION OF HOARD: In their Submissions to this Board, both parties have
referred to the record in Docket SG-20219. At Page 2
of its Submission, Claimant notes that this "...dispute is similar to one
presented to this Board under our file NRAB-2568, and assigned Docket No.
sG-20219."

The claim in Docket SG-20219 was dismissed in our Award No. 20532. We have reviewed that Award and have noted that it considered the same issues and contentions (concerning the same Rule governing these parties) as advanced in this record. For the same reasons recited in Award 20532, we shall dismiss this claim.



        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

        That the claim be dismissed.


                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTS BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: Ae

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          Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of April 1975.