Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28606
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. CL-27949
90-3-87-3-494
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Marty E. Zusman when award was rendered.
(Transportation, Communications International Union
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood
(GL-10177) that:
1. The Carrier violated Rules 1, 2, 37 and Appendix E among others
of the Schedule Agreement when it directed work, computer programming, which
is covered by the Agreement, to be performed by individuals outside the coverage of the Agreemen
2. The Carrier shall now be required to compensate J. M. Lyle for
eight (8) hours pay at his overtime rate of pay for Friday, April 25, 1986,
which shall be in addition to any other amounts he may have received for this
date.
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 held the regularly assigned position of Programmer-Analyst.
On April 25, 1986, the Carrier installed a software package that it had purchased from an outside co
Assistant Auditor programmed the computer after the Claimant completed his
shift.
The Organization argues that the Carrier violated the Agreement and
Claimant is due overtime payment. It is the Organization's position that the
work of programming the computer has historically been performed by Clerks on
the Carrier. The Organization maintains that programming is work belonging to
the Clerks and protected by the Agreement.
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The Carrier denied the Claim arguing that Clerks have never exclusively performed programming. T
been performed for many years by supervisory and other personnel not covered
by the Clerk's Agreement. It is the Carrier's position that it violated no
part of the Agreement or.the National Agreement of April 15, 1986.
The Board has reviewed the full range of issues raised on the property, as well as the Agreement
in all cases that reach this Board fior resolution, only arguments and issues
raised and developed on the property can be properly considered.
The burden of proof lies with the Organization. Rules 1, 2 and 37
do not include language which prohibit the Carrier from the programming complained of in the instant
that the work has been historically and exclusively performed by the Clerks.
The Carrier has presented contrary evidence. Job bulletins do not prove the
exclusive right to performance, but only that said work is performed as a part
of the position.
In the instant case, the Agreement and evidence properly presented do
not carry the Organization's burden of proof. There is no basis in the evidentiary record to conclud
than employees covered by the Agreement from performing computer programming.
Exclusivity has not been proven in these instant circumstances.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
0000,
Attest:
~lancy J. UpFer - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of October 1990.