Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 26759
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MS-27592
88-3-87-3-32
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Charlotte Gold when award was rendered.



PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of G. J. Giudicessi (#292) that:

(a) Carrier violated the rules of the current Clerks' Agreement at Topeka, Kansas when it improperly and illegally converted the Rate, Cashier and Miscellaneous Bills Department into the Team Concept as a result of a LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING dated February 21, 1985, and

(b) The Team Concept should be declared improper and illegal and should be abolished with clerks being returned to their former positions as held before the implementation of this LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING, and

(c) Mr. G. J. Giudicessi shall now be compensated a total of $60,000.00 plus $1,000.00 for each day after December 16, 1985, and

(d) Mr. G. J. Giudicessi shall now be compensated interest payable at the prevailing prime rate and any other damages and awards deemed proper by this Honorable Board."

FINDINGS:

The Third Division of the Adjustment Board upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employe or employees involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.



The issues in the instant dispute are virtually identical to those involved in Third Division Award 26758. For the reasons set forth in that Award, the Claim will be denied.
Form 1 Award No. 26759
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88-3-87-3-32






                            By Order of Third Division


Attest:

      Nancy J. 19'ver - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 5th day of January 1988.