Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 29173
 THIRD DIVISION Docket No. CL-29330
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 The Third Divis_on consisted of the regular members and in
 addition Referee John B. LaRocco when award was rendered.
 (Transportation Communications International Union

 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


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

1. Carrier violated the Agreement when it failed and/or refused to call the Senior Available Employe or an extra clerk to perform extra clerical work done by a Supervisor.

 2. Carrier shall now compensate the Senior Employe, extra in preference, at the Operators rate o
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board upon the whole record and all the evidence, =:-.cs that:

 The carrier or _arriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as app.-Dved June 21, 1934.

 This Division D: the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.

After a train arrived at Flomaton, Alabama, on October 29, 1988, the Flomaton Trainmaster sen_ a message to the Mobile, Alabama, Chief Train Dispatcher and a train crew train arriving at Flomat:n needed special handling. The Trainmaster sent the communication through the Administrative Message Switching System (AMSS) which is an electronic mail system.

 The message in :uestion was more akin to an administrative communication as opposed to a =essage differently, the Organization has failed to meet its burden of proving that the contents of the message covered other than ministerial or administrative matters. The purpose of the message was simply to give instructions to expedite certain rail cars. T that Clerks or Telegraphers had handled this type of message in the past or that the message governed the movement of trains. See Public Law Board No. 2470, Award 71.
 Form 1 Award No. 29173
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Attest: 0001".0 PO

      -Nancy J. r -~rxecutive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 3rd day of April 1992.