Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28300
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27437
90-3-86-3-684
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Rodney E. Dennis when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(National Railroad Passenger Corporation - (Amtrak)
Northeast Corridor
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier assigned Track
Inspectors instead of Track Foreman T. Burger to perform overtime service with
the rail grinding train on April 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, 1985 (System File NEC-BMWESD-1327).
(2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Mr. T. Burger shall
be allowed fifty-six and one-half (56 1/2) hours of pay at the track foreman's
time and one-half rate."
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.
On April 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1985, Carrier assigned a Track Inspector
to perform overtime service with the rail grinding train. Claimant was working as a Foreman with his gang during regular hours. Two of the Trackmen from
Claimant's gang were assigned on an overtime basis to work with the rail grinding train, but Claimant was not. The organization filed a Claim contending
that Claimant should have been used to supervise his men and work with the
rail grinding train, instead of a Track Inspector.
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Carrier contends that the Track Inspector was assigned to pilot the
rail grinding train and that Claimant was not needed as a Foreman. Carrier
also argues that the Track Inspector held Foreman seniority over Claimant and,
by that fact alone, he was properly assigned the overtime supervisor activity.
The Board has reviewed the facts as presented in the record and the
cases in support of the parties' positions. Based on this review, it is not
persuaded that the Organization has justified its position or that the Track
Inspector assigned was assigned improperly.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest: ( /
'[a cy J. -Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of March 1990.