Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28236
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27122
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The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Elliott H. Goldstein when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Soo Line Railroad Company (former Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
Paul and Pacific Railroad Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned Storeroom
employes to dismantle, assemble and install shelving in Buildings LD-36, LD-1,
CD-50, Oil House and Power House on December 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
17, 18, 19 and 27, 1984 and January 3, 1985 (System Files C N5-85/D-2686-E,
C X16-85/D-2686-D, C I#7-85/D-2686-F, C II8-85/D-2686-G, C I#9-85/D-2686-H).
(2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Bridge and Building
Department Employes C. R. Bath, D. D. Bowman, R. C. Brown, L. J. Budahn, A. T.
Clark, M. P. DeVries, J. B. Fehler, E. W. Finger, R. W. Hansen, Jr., G.
Harris, Jr., G. J. Hubatch, J. T. Ingham, U. Jefferson, J. Jones, J. W.
Keller, D. P. Knaak, J. E. Love, D. P. Lynch, R. L. Morrow, K. K. Popp, G. A.
Prell, R. W. Prestater, A. C. Schulz, R. C. Stankovsky, T. J. Rueda, J. R.
Wayer and D. M. Wild shall each be allowed pay, at their respective straight
time rates, for an equal proportionate share of the two hundred sixteen (216)
man-hours expended by Storeroom employes in the performance of the work referred to in Part (1) here
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.
As Third Party in Interest, the Transportation Communications International Union was advised of
file a Submission with the Division.
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The Organization in the instant case requests that 27 Bridge and
Building Department employees be allowed an equal proportionate share of 216
man-hours expended by Storeroom employees to dismantle, assemble and install
shelving in various buildings during the period December 3, 1984, through
January 3, 1985. Citing a violation of Rule 4, Department Limits, and Rule
46, Classification of Work, the Organization asserts that the work performed
by Storeroom personnel is work which has consistently been done by Bridge and
Building forces in the past. Letters from various Bridge and Building employees were offered to show
by Bridge and Building forces.
Carrier's position is that the work in question is not work which is
exclusively reserved to or performed by Bridge and Building Department employees. The work has consi
the system, Carrier contends. Moreover, Carrier argues that various forces
have traditionally been utilized to assemble, install and/or relocate shelving
which is incidental to the performance of their own duties in their own particular work area.
were fully employed on the dates of Claim and suffered no loss of wages, no
monetary remedy should issue even if the Board finds that a violation of the
Agreement occurred.
The resolution of this dispute rests upon whether it was proper to
allow Storeroom personnel to perform work in connection with the assembling,
installation and relocation of shelving in conjunction with the relocation of
the Storeroom facilities with the Carrier's Milwaukee Shop and whether the
work has been established as work exclusively reserved to Bridge and Building
Department employees.
The Organization relies upon Rule 46 to support the Claim that the
disputed work is within the exclusive domain of Bridge and Building forces.
Rule 46 provides in pertinent part:
"RULE 46
CLASSIFICATION
(b) An employee who, in addition to his other
duties, directs the work of men and reports to officials of the Railroad will
be designated as a foreman.
(c) An employee who, in addition to his other
duties, assists the foreman in directing
the work will be designated as an assistant
foreman.
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(i) An employe assigned to constructing, repairing, maintaining or dismantling
bridges, building or other structures
(except the work referred to in section
(c) of this rule), or who is assigned to
perform miscellaneous mechanic's work of
this nature, will be designated as a bridge
and building carpenter and/or mechanic.
(p) A concrete or bridge and building employee
assigned to manually perform excavating,
back-filling or other common labor in the
Bridge 6 Building Sub-department will be
designated as a laborer."
Carrier maintains that the foregoing Rule is general in nature and
does not specifically provide that the task of dismantling, assembling and
installing shelving is within the exclusive purview of work belonging to
Bridge and Building employees. In support thereof, it cites Second Division
Awards 10752, 10751 and Third Division Award 20232.
The Board in its review of this matter finds that the cases relied
upon by the Carrier are not directly on point as they involve a different
organization with different rule provisions (Sheet Metal Workers in Second
Division Awards 10751 and 10752), or work that differs from that which is at
issue here (cleaning cars in Third Division Award 20232).
Much more directly relevant, in our view, is Third Division Award
19189, cited by the Organization, in which Bridge and Building employees
claimed that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company violated the Agreement in
assigning Electricians to perform the work of removing and installing certain
storage racks. In sustaining the claim, the Board noted:
"We are persuaded that the storage racks herein
are, in effect, storage bins. We find they
were constructed. We further find that they are
affixed to the building and are a part thereof.
The mere fact that the rack may be removed does
not make it any less part of the building
....
Although this prior Award obviously does not have the same precedential value as case precedent
decisis, the Board nevertheless finds no basis for reaching a different conclusion. Unlike a mon
ruled is not a part of a building structure (see Third Division Awards 19956,
19306), the shelving in the instant case is, in our view, mounted within the
building structure and becomes an integral part of it.
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Accordingly, we find that the disputed work is reserved to the employees under the explicit lang
need for the Board to reach the second tier of its analysis; that is, whether
the Organization proved that the work was its based on historical practice.
Having found that the disputed work is covered by Rule 46, the Carrier's contention that the Organiz
There appears to be some question as to whether Claimants were fully
employed on the dates in question. We direct the Carrier to review its records. Any Claimants who we
suffered no loss of compensation shall receive no monetary remedy. If there
are any Claimants who were not so employed, their Claims shall be sustained
pursuant to paragraph 2 of the instant Claim.
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 - Executive Secret
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 11th day of January 1990.