Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28055
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-28112
89-3-87-3-697
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Irwin M. Lieberman when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (formerly
( The Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned Trackman F.
Hammac instead of furloughed Machine Operator P. Wickenheiser to operate a tie
crane between Monroe, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio beginning July 28, 1986 (Carrier's File 8365-1-221).
(2) The claim as presented by General Chairman J. L. D'Anniballe on
September 23, 1986 to Division Engineer R. 0. Papa shall be allowed as presented because said claim
Relations R. J. O'Brien (appealed to him on January 26, 1987) in accordance
with Article 41(a)(1), (2) and (3).
(3) As a consequence of Parts (1) and/or (2) above, furloughed
Machine Operator P. Wickenheiser shall be allowed pay for all straight and
overtime hours which the tie crane was used beginning July 28, 1986 and continuing until the violati
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.
Claimant had seniority as a Machine Operator at the time this dispute
arose, and had been furloughed due to a general force reduction. He was thereafter assigned by Carri
on July 28, 1986, Carrier assigned a Trackman, with no machine operator seniority, to operate a tie
1986. The position was not posted.
Form 1 Award
No.
28055
Page 2 Docket
No.
MW-28112
89-3-87-3-697
The Organization argues that Claimant was the senior qualified available employee and should hav
Further it is asserted that the position in question, known to be for a period
in excess of thirty days, should have been bulletined. The organization maintains that Carrier viola
Carrier, on the other hand insists that it was not obligated to recall Claimant to fill a temporary
Initially, the Board notes that it is not necessary to resolve the
Organization's procedural arguments, in view of the Findings.
After a careful review of the facts herein, the Board believes that
the Organization's position is sound. It is clear that under the rules whether a position is tempora
days it must be bulletined. Under the rules Carrier is given a ten day grace
period to make that determination. In this dispute the work began on July 28,
1986, and continued until at least October (the record is unclear with regard
to the completion of the task). The position should have been bulletined.
There is no evidence to show that the work was intermittent. Therefore the
Claim must be sustained. However, with respect to remedy, Claimant should be
made whole for losses sustained, after ten days of the position starting,
until he was either placed in a Machine Operator role or the task terminated,
whichever came first. The extent of his compensation shall be the difference
between what he earned in his other assignment with Carrier and what he would
have earned had he been given the Tie Crane assignment.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with the Findings.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest
Nancy J D)pO er - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 10th day of August 1989.