Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 29326
 THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MS-28799
 92-3-89-3-191
 The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
 addition Referee Peter R. Meyers when award was rendered.

 (William Pepel PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

 "Question 1: Whether Rule 11(f) of the Synthesized Agreement between NR PC (Amtrak) and Transportation Communications Union (TCU) requires that an employee receive credit for completion of the 60 month wage period when the employee's previous employment has been in a craft represented by TCU and employed by a bus carrier?

 Question 2: Whether, after granting the employee such credit, the employer may unilaterally deprive him of it and reduce his wages?

 Question 3: Whether, after depriving the employee of the credit, the employer may force the employee to repay part of what it paid him previously?"

 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.

Claimant was employed by the Carrier as a Reservation Sales Clerk at its Chicago office.

 Prior to his employment with the Carrier, Claimant was employed by Trailways Bus Company as a Reservation Sales Representative and was represented by the Transportatio with the Carrier. The issue in this case rests on whether the Claimant's employment with Trailways constitutes previous employment with a carrier in a craft represented by the Transportation Communications Union. The Claimant's
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 employment with Trailways ended prior to his beginning work with the Carrier. The Claimant subsequently was employed by the Carrier on January 12, 1987. At that time, he was credited with the equivalent of 260 months of employment due to his prior employment by Trailways and was paid 100 percent of the Reserva-
 tion Sales Representative's wage through November 1987. In November 1987, the
 Carrier reduced the Claimant's wage to 75 percent of the Reservation Sales
 Representative's wage and ordered the Claimant to repay 25 percent of the
 wages paid to him back to November 1, 1987.
 Thereafter, the Claimant filed a claim challenging the Carrier's
 authority to reduce his pay from 100 percent of the appropriate pay scale to
 75 percent of the appropriate pay scale in November 1987 and the Carrier's
 requirement that the Claimant reimburse it 25 percent of previously paid wages.

 The Carrier denied the claim on the grounds that the Claimant's case is procedurally defective and improperly before the Board, and that the Claimant's previous employme with a carrier under the Agreement between the Carrier and the Transportation Communications Union, i.e., Trailways is a bus carrier and not a railroad carrier as meant within the applicable Agreement.

 This Board has reviewed the record and we find that the Claimant has not met his burden of proof. Therefore, the claim must be denied.

 Claimadt previously worked for a bus line and wants to have that time credited toward his service in the railroad industry. Claimant relies on language which refers to a "carrier in a craft represented by TCU."

 However, Claimant's previous employment was with the Trailways Bus Company which is a bus carrier and not a railroad carrier as meant and understood under the Agreemen

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 Consequently, the fact that the Claimant was employed by Trailways does not give him creditable time toward the full rate of pay, because Trailways is not a carrier as







Attest: i
 ncy J. p v - Executive Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 24th day of July 1992.