NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 21635

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-21662

Joseph A. Sickles, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Southern Railway Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Railway
Company et al.:

On behalf of J. L. Mitchell, Signal Maintainer, Lines West Seniority District, for six (6) hours straight time account Electrician Don Feltman loaded and hauled a signal mechanism from Meridian, Mississippi, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 14, 1975, to be installed by signal employees in that area.

/Carrier's file: SG-108/

OPINION OF BOARD: On the day in question, Carrier utilized the services
of an individual not covered by this Organization's
agreement to transport certain signal mechanism.

We have considered the facts of record and the contentions of the parties; and we have reviewed Third Division Awards 10613 and (particularly) 12188, which resolved disputes between these parties. It is our conclusion that the Awards cited above are precedent to this case and, accordingly, we will 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 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

ATTEST: Executive Secretary

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