NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number MW-25935
Lamont E. Stallworth, Referee
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (Northern Region)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
1. The Carrier violated the Agreement when it failed to recall furloughed Trackman W. T. LaDrig
(System File C-TC-1641/MG-4070).
2. Claimant W. T. LaDrig shall be allowed pay equal to that paid to
a junior trackman beginning April 4, 1983 and continuing until the claimant is
recalled to service."
OPINION OF BOARD: The Claimant was furloughed from Carrier's Northern Region
as a result of a force reduction on August 27, 1982. He
was called by Carrier to perform temporary snow removal duty on one (1) day,
March 22, 1983.
When the Carrier increased its forces on April 4, 1983, employes
junior in seniority to Claimant were recalled to service. This gave rise to
the instant Claim.
Carrier contends that Claimant had failed to file his name and
address with the proper Officer within the allotted time and had, therefore,
forfeited all seniority and was not subject to recall. Carrier also contends
that Claimant's name was not listed on the 1983 Northern Region Trackman's
Seniority Roster and no protest was made thereto.
The Organization argues that the Claimant had filed his name and
address with his Supervisor when he was furloughed on August 27, 1982, and the
Carrier recognized Claimant as a furloughed employe when they called him for
temporary service on March 22, 1983.
This Board recognized the Carrier's arguments with respect to the
application of the Agreement, i.e., the appropriate procedure for an employe
to file his name and address upon furlough and the procedure for filing a
Roster protest. However, this Board is also cognizant of the fact that the
Carrier allowed Claimant to perform temporary service, albeit one (1) day,
which was beyond the time limits of the Rule for filing his name and address
and beyond the time for making a Roster protest. Thus, the Board is inclined,
based solely on the record before us and the circumstances peculiar to this
dispute, to restore the Claimant to the Seniority Roster with a date of March
22, 1983, but without compensation for any time lost.
Award Number 26134 Page 2
Docket Number MW-25935
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 violated.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attes
Nancy J. De r - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of September 1986.