Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28386
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27,
90-3-87-3-52
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:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned junior B&B employes (J. D. Ebner and M. W. Woytasczyk) to perform overtime service on February 28, 1986 and March 1, 1986, instead of calling and using B&B Carpenters J. D. Wickizer to perform that service (System Files MW-86-43/448-55-A and MW-86-44/448-53-A).

(2) B&B Carpenters J. D. Wickizer and L. N. Ward shall each be allowed sixteen (16) hours of pay at their respective time and one-half rates."

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.



On February 28, 1986, and March 1, 1986, Carrier employed two B&B employees junior to Claimant on an overtime basis, to work a kitchen trailer that serviced Carrier employees involved in cleaning up a derailment.

The Organization contends that once Carrier decided to use B&B employees on this overtime as Form 1 Award No. 28386
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Carrier argues that the job of manning the kitchen trailer in an emergency situation is done on a voluntary basis and that no single craft has exclusive rights to the work. No single craft or group has any claim to working the kitchen trailer class, those employees who can adequately prepare food and cook are asked to volunteer for the service. That is what took place here and we find no Agreement Rule that forbids this practice. While this Board clearly understands and supports the san





                          By Order of Third Division


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Attest:
      Nancy J/oOpffe r - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of May 1990.