NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20746

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-20595

Francis X. Quinn, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen on the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company:

(a) The Carrier violated the current Signalmen's Agreement whet on the close of the work day, September 12, 1972, the signal maintainers' positions were abolished and in each instance a new position of Leader SiF Mtnr. was established.

(b) The Carrier should now be required to re-establish the postion as separate signal maintainer pos
OPINION OF BOARD: Award 20630 involves these same parties and agreement
as well as an interpretation and application of Rule 20(a). Following that award and the doctrine which precludes considerati, of moot questions or abstract propositions or the affirmation of principl~ which do not affect the matter in issue,we must deny the claim.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole reco-

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 ovethe 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: ~~e

Executive Secretary

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