NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 22282

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number CL-22116

Rolf Valtin, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and
( Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
( Express and Station Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Southern Pacific Transportation Company
( (Pacific Lines)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-8371) that:

(a) The Southern Pacific Company (now the Southern Pacific Transportation Company) violated the Clerks' Agreement extant when it arbitrarily required Train Timekeeper Flora Fambrini to trade positions and duties with Maintenance of Way Timekeeper Alice Danielson; and,

(b) The Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall now be required to allow Flora Fambrini eight (8) hours additional compensation at Timekeeper's rate of thereafter until she is placed back on her position as Train Timekeeper.

OPINION OF BOARD: As revealed in the Statement of Claim, this case
originated more than ten years ago. Claimant
was one of some seventy Timekeepers in the Carrier's Payroll Depart
ment at its San Francisco General Headquarters. All of the Timekeeper
posts were bulletined as 5-day posts, had the same work days, hours,
and meal periods,.. and were of identical rates of pay. In early 1968,
the Carrier rearranged the duties in four of the posts for efficiency
purposes. The claimant held one of the four posts. The rearrangement
in her case resulted in the substitution of certain maintenance-of-way
audits for certain train audits.

The claimant's additional-compensation request is based on alleged violations of certain Rules (Nos. 26, 27, 28 and 33) under the then-current Agreement. We have examined these Rules in relation to the underlying facts. We see nothing in them which would have barred the duty rearrangements. We find the claim ill-founded.

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Docket Number CL-22116

Additionally presented in the case is the Organization's contention that the Manager of Payroll and Miscellaneous Services denied the claim in a manner which violated the claimant's rights under a certain portion of the 1954 National Agreement. We reject this contention as well. Though brief, the Manager's letter was within the pertinent requirements (as discussed and held in a series of Third Division Awards).

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. .. _= .

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: Z9 ~V- &d~

Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th day of January 1979.