NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-21019
Joseph A. Sickles, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalm
(a) Carrier violated the current Signalmen's Agreement, as amended,
particularly the Scope, seniority, promotions, hours of service, bulletining
and assignment rules, historical and traditional practice,. when it arranged
or otherwise permitted the General Railway Signal Company to assemble two Type
El-60 Retarders.
(b) Carrier should now be required to compensate all employes listed
below at their pro-rata rate: -
Name Classification ID No. Rate per hour Claim (days)
R. D. Shininger Sig. Foreman 1404521 5.91 25
S. R. Culler Sig. Mtr. 1404523 5.52 25
C. A. ftel, Jr. Sig. Mtr. (Ind) 1404554 5.57 15
J. J. Miller Sig. Mtr. 1413082 5.52 25
R. E. Thomas Sig. Mtr. 1414916 5.52 20
T. A. Butler Sig. Mtr. 1206936 5.52 15
(Carrier File: 2-SG-352)
OPINION OF BOARD: The Employes asserted a Scope Rule violation when Carrier
obtained a pre-assembled retarder.
This dispute does not deal with work performed on the property.
Rather, it deals with an item made at a factory. Such off-property work is
not contemplated by the Agreement. See, for example, Award 20926.
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;
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Docket Number SG-21019
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction aver
the dispute involved herein; and
That the Agreement was not violated.
A W A R D
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Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
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Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of September 1976.