PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: This is to serve notice, as required by the rules of
 the National Railroad Adjustment Board, of my
 intention to file an ex parte submission on April 23, 1976 covering an
 unadjusted dispute between me and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad
 involving the question:

 Can a part-time, releif bridgetender be put at top seniority over all the bid in full-time bridgetenders?

 In October 1965 I (Gene Riesberg) started work for Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Then in 1967 I bid into the Spring Lake, Ferrysberg bridge from the Muskegon section of Grand Trunk. I worked on the bridge full-time until approximately 1972, while Arnold Berg worked only parttime, releif work on the same bridge. Arnold Berg was a school tea and could not work a full-time job for the railroad, too.

 During that time I (Gene Riesberg) was working full-time on the same bridge. There were 3 different jobs up for bids as bridgetenders there, and Arnold Berg never bid on any of them, therefore other men got the jobs.

 Then in the end of 1972 all the bridge jobs were abolished and put up for bids, again. Arnold Berg was then given top seniority rights over all of us.

 At the time Arnold Berg was first given top seniority rights Dick Drake was Coopersville agent. L. E. Ring is agent now and has records of Arnold Berg only back to Dec. 1972 of his bid to a bill.-time Job on the bridge.
I went to the union when this happened and was told that bid rights on my job did not mean anything.

 OPINION OF BOARD: A careful examination of the record before us
 convinces this Board that the claim Petitioner is
 attempting to assert before the Board was not handled on the property in
 accordance with the provisions of the controlling Agreement as required
 by Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act and Circular No. 1 of


the National Railroad Adjustment Hoard. Accordingly, inasmuch as Petitioner failed to progress the instant claim in accordance with the prescribed procedure, the claim is barred from consideration and must be dismissed as a result.

        FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Hoard, 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 Hoard has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

 Claim not progressed on the property as required by the Railway Labor Act.

                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: 'a"O. O&Z.Ir

        Execretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of April 1977.