Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28653
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-28776
91-3-89-3-170
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Joseph A. Sickles when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Duluth, Missabe 6 Iron Range Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier assigned junior B&B
Mechanic R. D. Johnson instead of B&B Mechanic K. G. Johnson to perform
overtime service at the Duluth Ore Docks on October 20, 1987 (System Claim No.
41-87).
(2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Mr. K. G. Johnson
shall be allowed pay for two (2J hours and forty (40) minutes at the BSB
Mechanics 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.
Prior to 1978 the Duluth Ore Dock facility was the only Carrier facility at that location and th
necessary operation and maintenance work., In 1978 Carrier opened a storage
facility at Lakehead and it established a training program for B and B Mechanics to provide necessar
and maintenance work." A Trainee Agreemept was negotiated in that regard.
Successful Trainees were assigned to positions at the Mechanic - Storage facility with their origina
in two B and B positions with distinct service requirements but with one
roster.
The Organization concedes that many B and B Mechanics did not train
or qualify because of "environmentally dirty conditions thereat and/or for
other reasons."
Form 1 Award No. 28653
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On October 20, 1987, a Lakehead Storage Mechanic worked overtime at
the Duluth Ore Docks which prompted this Claim on behalf of the senior B and B
Mechanic "outside of the Lakehead Storage facility" bared upon Rule 20(b) and
Rule 2 (seniority).
Carrier denied the Claim since Rule 20(b) states that overtime work
will be given to the senior qualified available employee working in the classification at the
work in question was then performed by B and B Storage Facility Mechanics
working at the Lakehead H. Q. point.
It is not disputed that Claimant had not worked at the Duluth Docks
since 1982.
Both parties have argued that the other party has relied upon matters
not raised and considered while the dispute was under review and consideration
on the property. Be that as it may, the record does raise a question of
qualification as it relates to the varied duties of the employees.
Carrier has cited Third Division Award 28614 which resolved a similar
dispute between these same parties. The cited Award is consistent with our
view of this record.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
cy J. )-Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of January 1991.