NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number CL-21566
Robert W. Smedley, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and
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.
CARRIER DOCKET: 8005-552 COMMITTEE DOCKET302-42
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.
"Article 13
(N) WORM 0^?
-2~IASSIGNED DA'=S
-'here work is required by the Company co be performed on
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"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.
`~ J BERG P
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of August 1977.