NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-22120
(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Chicago & Illinois
Midland Railway Company:
On behalf of Signal Maintainer E. J. Gallant for one
overtime call
(2.67 hours at the time and one-half rate of pay)
account A.C.
feed for
the battery charging system for the interlocker was removed, re-routed, and re-energized by shop
on June 23, 1976, after regular Signal Department hours."
1Case No. MP-BRS-4/
OPINION OF BOARD: Prior to the time in question, electric power
to the basement of the Carrier's Springfield
Station Building was furnished by an underground cable from the
nearby interlocking-tower; it serviced furnaces, telephones and a
signal battery charging system located there. A failure of the
underground cable interrupted the electric service to each of
those facilities. Temporary restoration of electric service to the
telephone system was made by the Carrier's electrician, and to the
signal battery charging system by the Signal Maintainer. Permanent
restoration of service to the facilities in the basement was made
by the Carrier's electricians by retiring the old underground
cable and installing new wiring from the upper
levels of
the
building; this included removing the temporary service to the
Signal battery charging system and causing the newly installed
service to furnish current to it.
Signalmen claim that the "...A.C.
feed for
the battery
charging system for the interlocking was removed, rerouted, and
re-energized by shop electricians..." in violation of the Signalmen's
Agreement. The Carrier contends that all of the work involved here
was reserved to its electricians and demands that the Board notify
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of the
pendency
of this dispute. The Board has given that notice and we have the
submission of that organization before us.
Award Number 22245 Page 2
Docket Number SG-22120
While the Petitioner asserts that some of the work
performed by the electricians is "signal work", he does not show
us just what that work was; without such showing we are unable to
determine from this record whether or not Petitioner's agreement
with the Carrier reserves that work to Signalmen. We must therefore
dismiss the claim.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving
the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon,
and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
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 an agreement violation has not been shown.
A W A R D
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
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Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of:.Worember-,1978.
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