NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 24289

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-24377

William G. Caples, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Soo Line Railroad Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen on the Soo Line Railroad Company:

On behalf of Mr. M. J. Haug for nine hours at the signal foreman's rate of pay ($10.97 per hour), Messrs. R. W. Minter and D. Sauve for nine hours each at the leading signalman's rate of pay $10.50 per hour), and Mr. J. Fresh for nine hours at $10.36 per hour, account on August 6, 7, & 8, 1980, communications employees worked on equipment that is related to the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) signal system that runs from Shoreham to Buffalo, Minnesota." (Carrier file: 900-46-B-124)

OPINION OF BOARD: Claimants are signal employes who claim pay for work performed
by communications workers for which they were available.
The Claimants did not cite any rule which substantiates their claims. The Carrier
denied the claim on the basis that the work performed is not specifically mentioned
in the Scope Rule, and is not reserved exclusively to signalmen.

The Board in the view of that, in order to prevail under the Scope Rule at issue, the employes have a burden of showing that they have acquired the exclusive right to perform the work. We are -able to conclude that the employes have made such a showing on the record.

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 J-a 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.

Award Number 24289 Page 2

Docket Number SG-24377

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

Attest: Acting Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

B~
Rosemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of April 1983.

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