Form I NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 37836
Docket No. CL-37040
06-3-02-3-6
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee
Edwin H. Benn when award was rendered.
(CSX Transportation, Inc. (former Seaboard
( Coast Line Railroad)
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Transportation Communications International Union
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"Claim of the System Committee of the Union that:
Carrier File 6(01-0153)
(TCU File 1.2574(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on August 23(2), and 24 and
September 27 and 28(2), 2000, when it allowed the
Yard master/Clerk (as specifically named in each claim) to
adjust the Yard inventory tracks at Fairburn, Georgia, in lieu
of allowing Clerk R. L. Wilson to perform this work at the
Customer Service Center at Jacksonville, Florida.
2. Carrier shall now be required to compensate Clerk Wilson, ID
518563, eight (8) hours at time and one-half the current rate of
$147.14 for the above violation.
(Carrier File 6(01-0166)
(TCU File 1.2585(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on various dates, as named
in each claim, when it allowed Intermodal Clerk J. L.
Goodman to Yard (YSAD) train/track/cut at Mile Post
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XXB023 (Fairborn Ramp). This violation was performed in
lieu of allowing this work to be performed by Clerical
employees in the Customer Service Center at Jacksonville,
Florida.
2. Carrier shall now compensate the Senior Available Employee,
extra or unassigned in preference, eight (8) hours at the
applicable rate of $147.14 or the punitive rate, if applicable, for
the above violation.
(Carrier File 6(01-0170)
(TCU File 1.2580(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on September 29, 2000,
when it allowed Intermodal Clerk J. H. Ingram to make Yard
Inventory Adjustments (YSIA) on train/track/cut at Fairburn,
Georgia. This violation was performed in lieu of allowing this
work to be performed by Clerical employees in the Customer
Service Center at Jacksonville, Florida.
2. Carrier shall now compensate the Senior Available Employee,
extra or unassigned in preference, eight (8) hours at the
applicable rate of $147.14 or the punitive rate, if applicable, for
the above violation.
(Carrier File 6(01-0348)
(TCU File 1.2618(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on November 13 and 14,
2000, when it allowed Intermodal Clerk J. L. Goodman to
make Yard Inventory Adjustments (YSIA) on train/track/cut
at Fairburn, Georgia. This violation was performed in lieu of
allowing this work to be performed by Clerical employees in
the Customer Service Center at Jacksonville, Florida.
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2. Carrier shall now compensate the Senior Available Employee,
extra or unassigned in preference, eight (8) hours at the
applicable rate of $147.14 or the punitive rate, if applicable, for
the above violation."
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.
In this claim, the Organization alleges that the Carrier assigned employees at
Fairburn, Georgia, to perform YSIA/YSAD functions rather than assigning that
work to a Customer Service Representative ("CSR") at the Customer Service
Center ("CSC") in Jacksonville, Florida.
The background for this claim is set forth in Third Division Awards 37227
and 37760.
As more fully set forth in Third Division Award 37760, the Board has
jurisdiction to resolve this claim.
Under those Awards, to prevail in this case the Organization must show that
the disputed work: (1) was performed by someone other than a CSR at the CSC; (2)
was performed by a Clerk at Fairburn, Georgia, prior to the 1991 Implementing
Agreement; and (3) was performed by a CSR at the CSC after the 1991
Implementing Agreement took effect.
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This record lacks the specific required factual showings necessary for the
Board to find that the Organization carried its burden under the three-part test set
forth in Third Division Award 37227.
Fairborn, Georgia, is an intermodal ramp located approximately 20 miles
from Atlanta and is not listed in the October 25, 1990 transfer notice. Further, the
statements offered by the TCU-represented employees do not specifically
demonstrate that the disputed work was performed by Clerks at Fairborn prior to
the 1991 Implementing Agreement.
In light of the above, the Organization's assertions that Fairborn is part of
the Atlanta Terminal (relying upon its listing on the CSX Intermodal website) or
covered by the 1994 Agreement are insufficient to offset the lack of necessary
evidence to meet the three-part test.
The claim shall therefore be denied.
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 1st day of August 2006.