Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 27772
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27091
89-3-86-3-139
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Marty E. Zusman when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement between The Detroit, Toledo S
Ironton Railroad Company and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
effective April 1, 1942, together with supplements and amendments thereto,
when it failed and refused to bulletin the position of Repairman-First Class
at Flat Rock, Michigan to employes covered thereby, but instead assigned the
duties thereof to a Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company employe (Carrier's
File 8365-1-183).
(2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Mr. J. W. Henry
shall be compensated for all money loss suffered beginning August 7, 1984 and
continuing until the position referred to in Part (1) hereof is bulletined and
assigned to the senior applicant."
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.
The Organization and Carrier entered into an Agreement of April 9,
1984, wherein the positions of Foreman and Repairman along with the incumbents
would transfer from Napoleon, Ohio, to Flat Rock Yard, Michigan. The incumbent of the Foreman's posi
rather than transfer. On May 7, 1984, the Carrier effected the change.
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The record indicates that the Foreman exercised his seniority rather
than transfer with the position while the incumbent of the Repairman's position transferred with the
the Carrier issued two Bulletins abolishing the positions of Foreman effective
May 7, 1984, and Repairman effective August 7, 1984, at Flat Rock Yard,
Michigan.
The Organization filed claim by letter of September 24, 1984, alleging Carrier violation of that
that the April 9, 1984, Agreement was violated when the Carrier refused to
maintain the two positions at Flat Rock Yard. It argues that the positions
were not transferred, nor vacancies advertised. As such, Claimant was denied
his right to exercise seniority to the vacant position.
This Board has reviewed closely the arguments and issues raised on
property with those which were presented ex parte. The employee statement and
new arguments as to who is doing the work and the appropriate remedy are
barred from consideration, as they were not discussed while handling this case
on the property (Third Division Award 24965).
In our review of the on property record we fail to find any cited
rule or provision agreed upon by the parties which was violated. This Board
must find a rule cited by the Organization which was alleged to be violated.
Thereafter, probative evidence of record must support the fact that the
Carrier violated the rule. We cannot find any action of the Carrier inappropriate under the Railway
Agreement provision (Third Division Award 21858).
Our review of the Agreement provisions cited by the Organization show
no terms or rules that limit Carrier from abolishing the Foreman and Repairman
positions. There is no evidence that Carrier failed to properly transfer
positions and incumbents. We find no Agreement protection or any rule negotiated between the parties
no Agreement provision limiting Carrier from abolishing the positions, the
Claim must be dismissed (Third Division Award 26906).
A W A R D
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
' Nancy J. D
/Cr-
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 2nd day of March 1989.