NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number MS-26223
(Robert D. Montoya
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Union Pacific Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"Discrimination, fraud, corruption, interference, influence,
coercion. Interpretation, Meaning, and application of the agreements. Refer
to petition-submission a.k.a. U-1617 (first division). I ask the boards
pardon in submitting everything at once, in that, I did not receive the
instructions until this late date, that is; the board has had 'knowledge of
this dispute for 85 days. Instructions A.(1)."
OPINION OF BOARD: The record shows that Claimant was employed by the Carrier
as a Locomotive Engineer and his last service with the
Carrier prior to dismissal was as Locomotive Engineer. The Carrier states
that Claimant's entire service career was as an employe in train and engine
service. Claimant was dismissed on August 8, 1983, for his actions while
employed as Locomotive Engineer on July 27, 1983.
Section 153 First (h) of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, specifically defines the jurisdictio
National Railroad Adjustment Board. Disputes involving Locomotive Engineers
are not within the jurisdiction of the Third Division. The Division may not
properly extend its jurisdiction beyond what is provided by law. The dispute
involving Claimant's dismissal from Carrier's service as a Locomotive Engineer
must be dismissed by the Third Division. Claimant's insertion of the words
"Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way" in notice to this Board dated January 23,
1985, does not change or modify the jurisdiction of the Third Division. He
was not a Maintenance of Way employe at the time of dismissal.
Our attention has also been directed that Claimant's disputes with
the Carrier involving his dismissal as a Locomotive Engineer on August 8,
1983, for his actions as a Locomotive Engineer on July 27, 1983, have been
adjudicated by the First Division of the National Railroad Adjustment Board in
Awards Nos. 23821 and 23822, both dated May 12, 1987.
This Division has stated on numerous occasions that we do not consider it the intent of the Rail
purposes the prompt and orderly settlement of disputes growing out of grievances or out of the inter
rates of pay or working conditions, that the National Railroad Adjustment
Board repeatedly adjudicate the same dispute between the same parties and
arising out of the same occurrence. (Third Division Award Nos. 25261, 24789,
23077, among others.) Claimant's dispute with the Carrier arising out of his
dismissal on August 8, 1983, has been adjudicated by Award Nos. 23821 and
23822 of the First Division.
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Docket Number MS-26223
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 does not have jurisdiction over the dispute involved
That the Claim be dismissed.
A W A R D
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J. er - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 9th day of September 1987.