Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 36154
Docket No. CI-36807
02-3-01-3-361
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee
Rodney E. Dennis when award was rendered.
(Transportation Communications International Union
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"Claim of the System Committee of the Organization (GL-12749) that:
1. Claim is hereby filed in behalf of G. Humes, Claimant.
(a) The Carrier violated the TCU/NRPC Northeast Corridor
Agreement in particular Rules 2-A-1, 4-A-1, 4-A-4, 4-F-1 and
others when it arbitrarily permitted and required C. Guzik, Chief
Clerk System Report, 4th Floor North Tower to perform work
regularly and routinely assigned to employees headquartered at the
30th Street Mailroom, 2nd Floor South Tower (Reproduction) on
Wednesday May 5, 1999 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pro as part of an
overtime assignment. The Carrier failed to call and use G. Humes,
Lead Material Control Clerk, Mailroom 2nd Floor South Tower, a
position that normally and regularly performs the work in question.
(b) Claimant G. Humes now be allowed 4 hours pay at the overtime
rate for May 5, 1999 when the Carrier violated the Agreement.
(c) Claim is presented in accordance with Rule 24 is in order and
should be allowed.
H. Claim is hereby filed in behalf of G. Humes, Claimant.
(a) The Carrier violated the TCU/NRPC Northeast Corridor
Agreement in particular Rules 2-A-1, 4-A-1, 4-A-4, 4-F-1 and
others when it arbitrarily permitted and required C. Guzik, Chief
Clerk System Report, 4th Floor North Tower to perform work
regularly and routinely assigned to employees headquartered at the
30th Street Mailroom, 2nd Floor South Tower (Reproduction) on
Thursday May 6, 1999 from 3:00 pm to 8:36 pm as part of an
overtime assignment. The Carrier failed to call and use G. Humes,
Lead Material Control Clerk, Mailroom 2nd Floor South Tower, a
position that normally and regularly performs the work in question.
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(b) Claimant G. Humes now be allowed 5.36 hours pay at the overtime
rate for May 6,
1999
when the Carrier violated the Agreement.
(c) Claim is presented in accordance with Rule 24 is in order and
should be allowed.
III. Claim is hereby filed in behalf of G. Humes, Claimant.
(a) The Carrier violated the TCU/NRPC Northeast Corridor
Agreement in particular Rules 2-A-1, 4-A-1, 4-A-4, 4-F-1 and
others when it arbitrarily permitted and required C. Guzik, Chief
Clerk System Report, 4th Floor North Tower to perform work
regularly and routinely assigned to employees headquartered at the
30th Street Mailroom, 2nd Floor South Tower (Reproduction) on
Friday May 7,
1999
from 3:00 pm to 7:41 pm as part of an overtime
assignment. The Carrier failed to call and use G. Humes, Lead
Material Control Clerk, Mailroom 2nd Floor South Tower, a
position that normally and regularly performs the work in question.
- (b) Claimant G. Humes now be allowed 4.41 hours pay at the overtime
rate for May 7,
1999
when the Carrier violated the Agreement.
(c) Claim is presented in accordance with Rule 24 is in order and
should be allowed.
IV. Claim is hereby filed in behalf of G. Humes, Claimant.
(a) The Carrier violated the TCU/NRPC Northeast Corridor
Agreement in particular Rules 2-A-1, 4-A-1, 4-A-4, 4-F-1 and
others when it arbitrarily permitted and required C. Guzik, Chief
Clerk System Report, 4th Floor North Tower to perform work
regularly and routinely assigned to employees headquartered at the
30th Street Mailroom, 2nd Floor South Tower (Reproduction) on
Saturday May 8,
1999
from 6:00 am to
4:59
pm as part of an
overtime assignment. The Carrier failed to call and use G. Humes,
Lead Material Control Clerk, Mailroom 2nd Floor South Tower, a
position that normally and regularly performs the work in question.
(b) Claimant G. Humes now be allowed
10.59
hours pay at the overtime
rate for May 8,
1999
when the Carrier violated the Agreement.
(c) Claim is presented in accordance with Rule 24 is in order and
should be allowed.
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V. Claim is hereby filed in behalf of G. Humes, Claimant.
(a) The Carrier violated the TCU/NRPC Northeast Corridor
Agreement in particular Rules 2-A-1, 4-A-1, 4-A-4, 4-F-1 and
others when it arbitrarily permitted and required C. Guzik, Chief
Clerk System Report, 4th Floor North Tower to perform work
regularly and routinely assigned to employees headquartered at the
30th Street Mailroom, 2nd Floor South Tower (Reproduction) on
Sunday May 9, 1999 from 8:00 am to 2:17 pm as part of an
overtime assignment. The Carrier failed to call and use G. Humes,
Lead Material Control Clerk, Mailroom 2nd Floor South Tower, a
position that normally and regularly performs the work in question.
(b) Claimant G. Humes now be allowed 6.17 hours pay at the overtime
rate for May 9, 1999 when the Carrier violated the Agreement.
(c) Claim is presented in accordance with Rule 24 is in order and
should be allowed."
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.
Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.
The instant case involves a claim on behalf of G. Humes, a Lead Material Control
Clerk, Mailroom, 2nd Floor, South Tower, alleging that C. Guzik, Chief Clerk System
Report, 4th Floor, North Tower, should not have performed a large reproduction job on
an overtime basis. Claimant Humes contends that he should have been assigned the
overtime work, since such work is normally and regularly performed in his shop. The
Carrier takes the position that it properly assigned C. Guzik to the overtime
reproduction work and that the claim is not valid.
The Board has reviewed the record and has considered all of the arguments
presented by both parties. As a result of that review, the Board has concluded that C.
Guzikwas properly assigned the work in question. There are no convincing arguments
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presented in the record that convince us that the Carrier violated any terms of the
Agreement by assigning the overtime work to C. Guzik.
C. Guzik's job description lists managing multiple printer operation, as well as
the delivery and distribution of large volumes of reports to various departments. The
Claimant's job description also mentions that he has duties pertaining to reproduction,
but the bulk of his duties, as spelled out on the job description, indicate that he is more
of a supervisor than a production worker.
The record also indicates that C. Guzik is more senior than the Claimant and
that, as a matter of course, performs the tasks she performed on the overtime project on
a regular basis during the normal work day.
In the final analysis, the Board concludes that the instant claim has no merit.
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 20th day of August 2002.