NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

Dana E. Eischen, Referee

PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
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(Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

Award Number 21032
Docket Number SG-20746

STATEMENT OF CLAIM, Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of

Railroad Signalmen on the Terminal Railroad Associa-

tion of St. Louis:

On behalf of Vacation Relief Signal Maintainer H. N. Tipp for two hours and forty minutes at the time and one-half rate for Lead Signalmaa account of Maintenance on several switches at the "Q" Tower Interlocking Plant, May 19, 1972. fCarrier File: 013-311-1)

OPINION OF HOARD: This claim seeks payment of a call at the punitive tbeausi 72 Maintenance of Way employs
to oil yard switches on May 19, 9 ly applied oil also to
switch plates and points on several switches at Carrier's Q-Tower Inter
locking Plant. It is undisputed that interlocking switch plates and points
should not be lubricated with oil but rather with graphite and that the
Interlocking Plant switches in question had been graphited by Claimant the
deer before on May 18, 1972. As a result of this error, the switches had
to be cleaned and re-graphited by Signal Department employee.

Essentially, the Claimant urges that the erroneous application of oil violated the Signalmen's Agreement Scope Rule, a so-called "general" scope rule. Ea all of the peculiar circumstances of this particular case we cannot agree. Oiling graphite switches is not work reserved to Sigaelmea by the Scope Rule or by activity which in fact crested additional work for employee under the Signalmen's Agreement rather than depriving Claimant of work belonging to him, or diverting his work to another. We shall deny the 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 Employee involved in this dispute ere respectively Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

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Docket Number SG-20746

That this Division of the Adjustment Hoard has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

That the Agreement was not violated.

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT HOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: a'Iw'..,&Executive secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th day of April 1976.