Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28340
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27502
90-3-86-3-759
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it failed and refused to
bulletin the ditching crew foreman's position created June 17, 1985 (Claim
Nos. 42-85 and 43-85).
(2) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it used either Assistant
Foremen T. Ward, J. Bijold, C. Brodin or
K.
Penttinen to fill the foreman's
position on the ditching crew from June 17, 1985 through August 14, 1985,
instead of using Foreman S. Weden (Claim No. 43-85).
(3) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier refused to allow
Assistant Foreman J. Bijold pay at the foreman's rate of pay for the work he
performed July 1, 1985 through August 5, 1985 (Claim No. 43-85).
(4) The claims referred to within Parts (1), (2) and (3) hereof
shall be allowed as presented because the Carrier failed to disallow said
claims as contractually stipualted within Rule No. 12-1(a).
(5) The position referred to within Parts (1), (2) and (3) hereof
shall be bulletined as a consequence of the violations referred to within
either or any combination of Parts (1), (2), (3) and/or (4) above.
(6) Claimant S. Wedel shall be allowed the difference between the
rate of pay he received and the foreman's rate of pay for the work performed
by Assistant Foremen T. Ward, J. Bijold, C. Brodin and
K.
Penttinen referred
to within Part (2) hereof as a consequence of the violations referred to
within either or all of Parts (1), (2) and/or (4) hereof.
(7) Claimant J. Bijold shall be allowed the difference between the
assistant foreman's rate of pay and the foreman's rate of pay for all of the
work he performed as referred to within Part (3) hereof as a consequence of
either or both of Parts (3) and/or (4) hereof."
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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.
In July and August, 1985, Carrier worked a temporary Assistant Foreman's assignment in connectio
Minnesota. The Organization contends that this assignment should have been
bulletined as a Floating Gang Foreman. Had the job been bulletined as such,
an employee different from the one used would have worked the job. The Claim
before us seeks additional compensation between the Assistant Foreman's rate
and the Foreman's rate for the individual who worked the job and Foreman's pay
for the individual who the Organization claims would have worked the assignment if it had been prope
On examination of this record we find that the Organization's entire
case rests upon a conclusionary allegation that Foreman's work was completed
by the temporary Assistant Foreman during the period of the Claim. This
allegation has not been elaborated upon, at any time, while the matter was
under consideration on the property, or before our Board, nor, was it ever
backed up with even elementary proof. Under the circumstances, the Claim must
be denied because of lack of proof.
The second facet of the Claim must also fail because of lack of
proof. The presumption of this Claim is that the temporary Assistant Foreman
was actually doing Foreman's work, thus, a job of Foreman should have been
bulletined. To get to this, Claim proof must be present that the Assistant
Foreman actually did Foreman's work. This, as noted above, has not been done.
On the matter of the Organization's time limit allegations, search
of the record fails to support a conclusion that the Claims were not timely
denied. Accordingly, that facet of the Claim is denied as well.
A W A R D
Claims denied.
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NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J4g r - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of April 1990.