Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, ( Express and Station Employes PARTIES TO DIS11TJTE: (Canadian National Railways, St. Lawrence ( Region, Lines in the United States

STAID= OF CLAIM: Claim of the T-C Division System Committee of the
Brotherhood (GL-8137), that:

1. Carrier violates the Agreement bet=ween the parties when, commencing Monday, April 21, 1975, it failed to call J. G. Pomerleau, Operator, South Paris, Maine, to perform work required on the rest day of his position which he normally performs during his work week, and instead called and utilized the Mobile ?gent headquartered at South Paris, Maine.

2. Carrier shall now compensate J. G. Pomerleau a two-hour call at time and one-hall rate for each Monday, commencing April 21, 1975, until the violation is corrected.



OPINION OF BOARD: At the time this claim arose Claimant, the operator
at South Paris, Maine, was assigned a workweek with
Sundays and Mondays as rest days and assigned hours from 0600 to 1400.
Commencing Monday, April 21, 1975, the Carrier instituted a practice of
having a Mobile Agent, with an assigned territory which included South
Paris, accept a recurring call between the hours of 0600 and 0800 to
protect the communications work normally assigned to the operator.

The claim is Dredicated on the violation of Article 13 (N) when the Mobile Agent was required to accept a call each Monday, one of the Claimant Operator's rest days, co perform work the Operator normally. performed during his regular ·aorkweek.





                    Docket Number CL-21566


        "a day which is not a part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have 40 hours of work that week; is all other cases by the regular employee."


We find Article 13 (N) controlling and, under the authority of Awards 11565 (Sempliner), 13618 (Mesigh), 14255 (Lynch), plus a host of others dealing with work on unassigned days, we will sustain 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

        The Agreement was violated. A W A R D


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        Claim sustained.


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                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of August 1977.