Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 26827
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. CL-26271
88-3-85-3-88
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Robert W. McAllister when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
( Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Belt Railway Company of Chicago
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood
(GL-9982) that:
1. Carrier violated the effective Clerks' Agreement when
on
and
after April 12, 1984, it established a position of switching information clerk
of more than thirty (30) days' duration without bulletining and awarding such
position in accordance with such Agreement;
2. Carrier shall compensate the senior furloughed employe eight (8)
hours' pay at the straight time rate of a switching information clerk position
for April 12, 1984, and for each and every day thereafter that a like violation occurs. Individual c
Carrier records."
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 employes 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.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
This claim is a companion case to Third Division Award 26557. The
only significant difference between the two is that such Award commenced on
April 13, 1984, and this claim commences on April 12, 1984. Also, this claim
seeks to have an afternoon Switching Information Clerk position established
whereas the other claim contended that a third shift position was needed.
Other facts, particularly charts indicating various dates between March 1 and
July 11, 1984, when 100 additional assignments of Switching Information Clerk
were worked and filled by extra board employees, are identical.
Form 1 Award No. 26827
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In Third Division Award 26557, we sustained the claim of the organization on the basis that the
bulletin an additional Switching Information Clerk within thirty days of the
date extra positions began working with daily regularity. However, in that
case, we modified the remedy and awarded compensation to the senior furloughed
Claimant for certain dates between April 13, 1984, and July 5, 1984. On July
5, 1984, a new position of Switching Information Clerk was bulletined. We
stated that only one payment per calendar day was required because in those
instances where more than one extra assignment was worked on a particular
calendar day, it was done so on an irregular basis. Under these circumstances, the assignments may h
Accordingly, the claim in this dispute has been disposed of by our
earlier Award. It will be denied. Third Division Award 26557 was based upon
identical facts to those before us now, therefore, no additional payments are
necessary in this claim.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J. a4fr - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of February 1988.