(Brotherhood of Railways Airline and Steamship Clerks ( Freight Handlers., Express and Station Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

(1) (terrier violated the Agreement between the Parties when on July 17., 1979, it assigned Clerk-Typist position G328, Elkins, West Virginia, to a junior employee (Miss S. L. McIntyre) thereby excluding senior employee Mr. J. A. Jones (hereinafter referred to as Claimant) who submitted a bid for the position in accordance with said Agreement, and

 (2) As a result of such impropriety, carrier shall be required to assign Claimant J. A. Jones to Clerk-Typist position 6328 Elkins, West Virginia, as of July 17,, 1979, and compensate him eight (Sj hours' pay ($65.36) per day commencing July 17.. 1979 and continuing each and all subsequent work days until th
OPLVION OF BOARD: This is a dispute in which Carrier bulletined a Clerk-Typist
 position at Elkins, West Virginia, and awarded the position
 to a clerical employs who was junior to the Claimant. Carrier declined to
 award the bulletined position to Claimant for the reason that he had failed two
 (2) separate typing tests.

 We need not linger long on the issues of fitness and ability or the relative merits of individual testing of employes seeking assignment to bulletined positions. Both of these issues have been repeatedly resolved by this and other Boards of Adjustment.(Axard No. 90-SBA 192 3rd Division Award Nos. 15002, 21710 21773 among others). In this case Claimant had two tests given dust two weeks apart and he failed both even after his Supervisors had urged him to prepare for the tests. Such tests are mechanical and are a simple method of determining the number of words per minute an employs can type. They are neither unreasonable nor beyond the right of Carrier to employ.

 There is no evidence in the record of this case to. support Petitioner's allegations of a violation of Rule 30 or any other Rule of the Agreement. The claim must be denied.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Boards upon the whole record
 and all the evidences finds and holds: -

                  Docket Number CL-24289


That the Carrier and the Employes isrolved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Acts 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 ADJUST7ENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: Acting Executive Secretary
 National Railroad Adjustment Board

 BY
      osemsrie Breach - Administrative Assistant


Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 14th day of December 1982.

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