NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 22080

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-22036

Don Hamilton, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Southern Pacific Transportation Company ( Texas and Louisiana Lines

STATEMENT OF CLAIPQ: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company--Texas and Louisiana Lines (former Texas and
New Orleans Railroad Company):

On behalf of Signalman J. J. Tucker for the difference between his rate of pay and that of a Signal Inspector account performing Signal Inspector work begi compensation to begin sixty days from the date the initial claim was filed. (Initial claim letter was dated hiay 28, 1976)

OP12TICN OF BOARD: In this case, the Organization alleges that the
Carrier required a Signalmen to perform the
duties of a Signal Inspector without compensating him at the rate of
pay for a Signal Inspector.

Referee Dorsey, in Award 12668, denied a claim very similar to the fact situation presented in the instant case. We agree with the theories expressed in the Dorsey Award and in the other citations presented by the Carrier.

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.

Award Number 22080 Rage 2

Docket Number SG-22036

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST:

Executive Secrezary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of may 1978.

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