NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number MW-24439
Herbert L. Marx, Jr., Referee
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned junior B&B
Mechanic B. C. Casteneda, Jr. to perform overtime service on August IZ and
12, 1980 instead of calling and using B&B Mechanic T. L. Edmons who was senior,
available and willing to perform that service (System File 180-400.33- 8030/111580-220-291)..
(2) B&B Mechanic T. L. Edmons shall be allowed eight (8) hours of
pay at his time and one-half rate, six and one-half (6-1/2) hours of pay at
his double time rate and four (4) hours of pay at his one-half time rate
because of the aforesaid violation."
OPINION OF BOARD: Despite the Carier's allegations to the contrary,
the Board finds that Bridge and Building mechanics were
to be called in seniority order for certain overtime work in their classification,
as indeed the Carrier states was done. It is the Carrier's
contention that
five mechanics were called for such duty, then the Claimant (sixth in seniority
order), and finally the seventh employe in seniority order, who responded and
worked the overtime in question.
The Carrier argued that the Claimant was called by telephone once
for the overtime assignment and that the telephone was not answered. Claimant
provided a statement by his wife that she was at home at the time the call
was supposedly made but that she received no call.
A signed statement by the Foreman who allegedly made the call was
submitted for the first time by the Carrier in its rebuttal to the Organization's
submission. Since it was not provided on the property during the processing
of the claim, such statement may not be considered by the Board.
The Claimant has standing in the dispute, even if not the employe
first in seniority, since those senior to him may, in fact, have been unavailable
and, in any case, made no claim for the work.
The dispute is one of fact rather than of rule interpretation. On
the record before it, the Board determines that the claim should be sustained
to the extent of payment to the Claimant of four hours' pay at the time and
one-half rate.
Award Number 24524 Page 2
Locket Number MW-24439
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 anployes 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 violated.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADTUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
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Nancy J. 9ffer - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of September, 1983.