Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28737
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. CL-28724
91-3-89-3-149
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee George S. Roukis when award was rendered.
(Transportation Communications International Union
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Soo Line Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood
(GL-10351) that:
1. Carrier violated the TCU Rules Agreement in effect on the Soo
Line Railroad when it utilized employees outside the Scope and application
of the Agreement to assume duties covered under the Scope and application of
such Agreement effective January 6, 1986.
2. Carrier shall now be required to compensate employee D. L.
Seibert, Traveling Agent No. 11, located at Waukesha, Wisconsin, his successor and/or reliefs for th
27, 28, 1986, and continuing daily until such time as the Agreement is complied with."
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.
The Organization contends that Carrier violated Rule 1(d) (Scope) of
the Controlling Agreement when an Agent of, the Wisconsin Southern Railroad
telephoned Carrier's Dispatcher advising tfiat cars were set out at Rugby
Junction, Wisconsin, and ready to be picked up by the Carrier. It claims that
said work was traditionally performed by Carrier's-Traveling Agent ill and
thus was improperly assigned. It maintains that since Rule 1(d) is a position
and work Scope Rule, Carrier was estopped from assigning this work to noncovered employees/individua
exclusivity when the work is within the "freeze-frame" of Rule 1.
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In response, Carrier contends that the identified Claimant was not
deprived of any work, since the Agent simply advised Carrier's Dispatcher as
to the number of cars and direction. It points out that the work did not
involve the receipt of weigh bill information or the processing of cars for
interchange. It notes that the Carrier's Dispatcher notifies the train crew
that cars are ready to be picked up, but such work which is incidental in
nature does not require taking down lists.
In considering this case, the Board concurs with Carrier's position.
Careful analysis of the record does not establish that the disputed work was
more than incidental ih nature or that any Agreement Rules were violated. We
also find, at least from this record, that the Carrier's Dispatcher did not
take a list. Accordingly, in view of these findings, we are compelled to deny
the Claim. ,
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J. r - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of March 1991.