Express and Station Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


S ' EqT O' CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood


May 1, 1955, particularly but not necessarily limited to, Rules 1, 2,
 3, 5s 6s 7, 9s 23 and others, when it transferred work 'the New York
 District to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and abolished the position of Bill
 Clerk, assigned to Mrs. Dolores Anderson, in its Newark, New Jersey
 Freight Office.

 (b) The Carrier now be required to compensate Mrs. Dolores Andersen for cue basic day at the rate of the abolished Bill Clerk position at Newark, New Jersey for October 10, 1974 and each assigned working day thereafter until the position is restored or violation otherwise corrected.

 OPINICK OF BOARD: This claim is premised upon the abolishment of
 Claimant's Bill Clerk position, which included the work of manually retyping waybills on piggyback shipments at the Metropolitan Freight Agency, Newark, N. J., and the assignment of this work to an agent at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 The undisputed facts show that prior to the inauguration of the Sycor Communication System, Claimant was required to manually prepare a new waybill to include information received from the customer which was not shown on the original waybill. The Carrier contends that with the introduction of the automated equipment, and its installation at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this manual retyping function was eliminated as there was no longer any need for a separate retyping operation. The information was recorded on magnetic tape and subsequent data was entered into the system and a complete waybill was produced automatically.
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In oar opinion, there was no encroachment of the Scope rule when the work functions were automated; consequently, we can find no violation of the agreement under the facts presented.

        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 Jane 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Hoard has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

        That the Agreement was not violated.


                    A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                          ftATIOd1AL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT HOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST J9/A/

            ·

        Executive Secretary


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