Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 29112
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-29048
92-3-89-3-476
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:
(Union Pacific Railroad Company (former :Missouri
( Pacific Railroad Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier allowed an employe
from outside the Scope of the Agreement to displace Machine Operator C. D.
Mitchell from his regularly assigned position on April 13, 1988 (Carrier's
File 880510 NPR).
(2) As a consequence of the violation referred to in Part (1) hereof,
the Claimant shall be allowed eight (8) hours' pay per day at his machine
operator's rate of pay for April 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19, 1988."
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.
As Third Party in Interest, the International Union of Operating
Engineers was advised of the pendency of this dispute and did not file a
Submission with the Division.
This Claim is a companion case to that involved in Third Division
Award 29111, wherein the Board concluded that the Organization has not established that under
an entitlement to work on certain items of heavy equipment which Carrier contends are to be operated
Carrier and the International Union of Operating Engineers, when IUOE represented employees are avai
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Claimant was removed from a machine when an IUOE represented employee
became available. Carrier contends that he was displaced and it was not necessary that he be afforde
its Agreement with the Organization. The original Claim of the Organization
stated:
"If the Carrier wanted to transfer Unit 116375
to another department of the U.P.System, then a
five day notice and cut-off would have been in
order for the Claimant."
The Agreement between the Organization and the Carrier cannot be
fairly read to provide that a machine operator assigned under its terms could
be displaced by an employee working under a different Agreement and holding no
seniority rights under the Organization's Agreement. Accordingly, Claimant's
removal from the machine cannot be considered as a displacement as contended
by Carrier. On the other hand, the machine was (at least constructively)
transferred to Carrier's Heavy Equipment Department. Claimant's assignment
as operator of the equipment, for all intents and purposes, must be considered
as abolished effective with the transfer. An appropriate abolishment notice
should have been provided.
The record indicates that Claimant lost one day's pay as a result of
being taken off the machine. The Claim will be sustained for one day's pay.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with the Findings.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J. ve - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of February 1992.