NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20921

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-20623

Francis X. Quinn, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(George P. Baker, Robert W. Blanchette and Richard

( C. Bond, Trustees of the Property of

( Penn Central Transportation Company, Debtor

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Company:

(a) The Carrier violated the Scope of the current agreement, when on July 1, 2, and 3, 1968 the Carrier allowed 10 men to work on a line relocation project between Mile Post 8 and Mile Post 9 on the I. & F. Branch. These men are not members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and should not have done this work.

(b) Each and every one of the employes listed below be paid at like numers of hours at their respective rates of pay for July 1, 2, 3, 1968 because of the violation cited in claim (a).

R. J. Glasson -Inspection C&S

W. M. Nash -Maintainer Test

W. 0. Weaver -Maintainer

D. E. Clayton -Maintainer

G. H. Hoffa, Jr. -Maintainer

J. P. Sparkmon -Maintainer Test

A. K. Singleton -Maintainer Test

F. L. Bussey -Maintainer

W. C. Paxton -Maintainer

M. W. Allee -Helper

(c) That the Employes listed in claim (b) be paid a like number
of hours at their respective rates of pay beginning with July 5, 1968, until
the violation cited in claim (a) has ceased. _
LSouthern Territory. System Docket 680 - Indianapolis Case SCS-1-68/

OPINION OF BOARD: The record indicates that the Claimants were on duty
and under pay on the four dates covered by the claim. There were no furloughed Signalmcm in the seniority district who could have been used. Finally, we adhere to the principle that damages shall be limited to Claimants' actual loss. Since Claimants suffered no pecuniary loss in this instance, w

Award Number 20921 Page 2

Docket Number SG-20623

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 Agreement was not violated.

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

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Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 16th day of January 1976.