Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 32599
Docket No. SG-33298
98-3-96-3-790

The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee Martin H. Malin when award was rendered.

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (CSX Transportation, Inc. (former Baltimore and ( Ohio Railroad Company)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:



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 I Award No. 32599
Page 2 Docket No. SG-33298




The instant claim was filed on behalf of members of the System Signal Construction Gang, alleging that Carrier violated the Agreement when it used Signal Maintainers, instead of the Claimants, to install a defect detector. The Agreement, however, does not restrict Signal Maintainers from performing the work, nor does it otherwise reserve the work exclusively for members of the construction gang. Accordingly, the claim must be denied.








This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above. hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimantls) not be made.


                      NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                      By Order of Third Division


Dated at Chicago, Illinois. this 22nd day of May 1998.