Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 30591
Docket No. MW-29419
94-3-90-3-346
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and In
addition Referee Charlotte Gold when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Union Pacific Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the
Brotherhood that:
(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier
assigned Track Machine Operator R.L. Larkin
instead of Sectionman V.E. O'Toole to perform
overtime service cleaning snow from switches
on February 5, 1989 (System File 5158/890247).
(2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation,
Sectionman V.E. O'Toole shall be allowed nine
(9) hours of pay at his time and one-half
rate.
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the wno:-=
record and all the evidence, finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees
:...
in this dispute are respectively carrier and employee with:::
meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.
This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction .. .
dispute involved herein.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hear::.?
thereon.
Claimant seeks compensation for Carrier's alleged fai1.::e.
call him for overtime service on February 5, 1989, in Marys:::_:.
Kansas. The work involved the removal of snow from swit::-.=
Claimant, a sectionman in the Track Subdepartment on the Ks::s ,s
Division, held a regular assignment on Section 4841 on the
ax
.s
prior to February 5. The work, which the Organization claims -::<
nine hours and Carrier maintains took seven, was performed
Track Machine Operator who did not have sectionman's seniori_ .. ..
Marysville Section 4841.
Form 1 Award No. 30591
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94-3-90-3-346
This Board has reviewed the record of this case and finds, at
the outset, that there is a basic dispute in facts that is
unresolved. In response to a query from the Superintendent on
April 11, 1989, the Supervisor wrote, "Mr. O'Toole was not at home,
when he was called. He showed up sometime later (3 hrs.l - after
we had found other help."
Claimant submitted statements from himself as well as from his
wife and small son, dated May 22, 1989, which state that he was
home all day on February 5, 1989. Carrier questions the accuracy
of these statements, since in all three, the date of February 6 was
initially written in and then crossed out, with February 5 put in
its place.
This Board is unable to determine from this record whether
Carrier, in fact, failed to call Claimant. We have heid in
numerous other Awards that where there is a dispute in facts,
it
falls to the moving party to present sufficient evidence e: a
probative nature to convince the Board that its version of events
is correct. The evidence in this case falls far short of meetinj
that burden. As a consequence, the claim must be dismissed.
AWARD
Claim dismissed.
ORDER
This Board, after consideration of the dispute iden___°_-i
above, hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimant's
be made.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT ~:_=:
By Order of Third Divisi:::
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 2nd day of December 1994.