"Claim of the System Committee of the Union (GL-13035) that:

(1) Carrier violated the TCU Contract by calling outside parties (PTI Taxi) to haul crews to and from and around Milan Yard, Fayetteville, North Carolina. These five (5) claims are for work that was done only by Clerks up until the first-shift Chief Clerk's job was abolished.

(2) Carrier shall now be required to compensate Clerk N. A. Ray at the rate he would have earned if called properly.

(3) Carrier further violated the Agreement when it failed to comply with the provisions of Rule 37 by not timely responding to the claim; therefore, this claim is now payable in the amount claimed."

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object to the claims at the time that he received them if he was not the properly designated officer to do so. The record contains no proof of any objection by him. Accordingly, any Carrier objection to the validity of filing the claims was waived. Moreover, the fact that the Trainmaster did not manifest any objection to receiving the claims actually provides corroboration for the Organization's assertion that there had not been any proper notification of a change in designated officer. In addition, if the Carrier had, in fact, notified the Organization of such a change in designated officers, such was an affirmative defense for which the Carrier had the burden of proof to establish proper notification. No such proof is in the record.

Given the foregoing circumstances, we must recognize the procedural default committed by the Carrier. That said, however, at the time that the claims went into default for lack of a response, they did not seek any monetary remedy. Indeed, the Organization did not attempt to amend the claims to request a 2 hour and 40 minute call at the time and one-half rate until its appeal dated February 4, 2004. This was some ten months after the claims were already in default. At this point in time, it was too late to amend the claims that were already fixed by default. Accordingly, we sustain the claims only insofar as they are in default. We do not provide any monetary remedy for the default because none was sought at that time.

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