NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number CL-21074
William M. Edgett, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
( Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood,
GL-7823, that:
1. The Carrier violated the effective Clerks' Agreement when
it arbitrarily and improperly established Job No. 721, Chief Clerk, and
bulletined it as "New-Under Excepted Rule 1(e)".
2. The Carrier shall now be required to establish, through
negotiations, a proper rate of pay for Job No. 721, Chief Clerk.
3. The Carrier shall now be required, after the proper rate
of pay is established for Job No. 721, to bulletin and award said position in accordance with Rules
4. The Carrier shall now be required to compensate Clerk Mary
C. Del Brocco and/or her successor or successors in interest; namely, any
other employe who may have stood in the same status as claimant, and who
was adversely affected, the difference between the rate of pay of Job No.
721, established through negotiations, and the rate of pay of her present
position, Rate and Bill Clerk No. 1 ($43.4944 per day) or any other position she may subsequently ac
established for Job No. 721 by negotiations, commencing with March 29,
1974 and for each and every day thereafter, five days per week, Monday
through Friday, that a like violation occurs.
5. The Carrier shall now be required to compensate Clerk M. E.
Hablitzel and/or his successor or successors in interest; namely, any other
employe who may have stood in the same status as claimant, and who was
adversely affected, for the difference between the rate of pay of Job No.
721 established through negotiation and the rate of pay of Job No. 721
($45.0800) unilaterally established by the Carrier, commencing March 29,
1974 and for each and every day thereafter that he is denied the negotiated rate of Job No. 721.
6. The Carrier shall now be required to compensate all other
employes who were adversely affected, for the difference between the rate
of pay they received and that which they would have received had the
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Docket Number CL-21074
Carrier properly established a rate of pay by negotiations for Job No.
721 and bulletined said position in accordance with Rules 9 and 10 of
the applicable Agreement, to be determined by a joint check of the
Carrier's records, commencing March 29, 1974 and for each and every day
thereafter that a like violation occurs.
OPINION OF BOARD: All of the issues involved in this case were
previously presented, considered and dismissed in
Award Nos. 21274, 21275, 21276 (Sickles) of this Division. We have
reviewed all of these prior Awards and find them to be controlling in
this instance. Therefore, we will dismiss for failure of proof.
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 for failure of proof.
A W A R D
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
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By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of February 1977.
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