CORRECTED
Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 31677
Docket No. MW-31496
96-3-93-3-512
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee
Robert Richter when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Burlington Northern Railroad Company (former
( St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier assigned Track
Gang 445 employes to perform track patrol work on the assigned
territory of Patrol Gang 442 on July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, August
2, 8, 9, 18, 22, 23, 25, 30 and September 14, 1991 instead of
assigning District Gang 442 (Track Foreman R. D. Long and
Trackman Driver G. D. Jackson) (System Files B-1495-1/8114WC
91-10-07D and B-1495-5/MWC 92-11-03A SLF).
(2) As a consequence of the violation referred to in Part (1) above,
Track Foreman R. D. Long and Trackman Driver G. D. Jackson
shall each be allowed fifty-nine (59) hours' pay at their respective
time and one-half rates."
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the
evidence, finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute
are respectively carrier and employee 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.
Form 1 Award No. 31677
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Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
This is a companion to Third Division Award 31670. It involves the same gangs,
issues, arguments and Agreements.
As in that case, the Organization failed to meet its burden of proving the
Agreement has been violated.
AWARD
Claim denied.
ORDER
This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that
an award favorable to the Claimant(s) not be made.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of August 1996.