Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 37838
Docket No. CL-37079
06-3-02-3-39
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(01-0064)
(TCU File 1.2533(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement on October 5, 2000, when it
allowed Clerk D. J. Bohn to make Yard Inventory Adjustments
(YSIA) on train/track/cut at location 000003 (Louisville,
Kentucky). This violation was performed in lieu of allowing
this work to be performed by Clerical employees in the
Customer Service Center in Jacksonville, Florida.
2. Carrier shall now be required to 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(01-0069)
(TCU File 1.2528(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on .September 26, 2000,
when it allowed Clerk S. L. Vaughn to make Yard Inventory
Adjustments (YSIA) on train/track/cut at C08 to ROI
MP000006. This violation was performed in lieu of allowing
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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(01-0071)
(TCU File 1.2526(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on October 5, 2000, when it
allowed Clerk D. J. Bohn to make Yard Inventory Adjustments
(YSIA) on train/track/cut at 000003. 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(01-0081)
(TCU File 1.2548(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on September 18 and
October 2, 2000, when it allowed Clerk F. R. Nalley to make
Yard Inventory Adjustments (YSIA) on train/track/cut at
000003, Louisville, Kentucky. 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.
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(Carrier File 6(01-0150)
(TCU File 1.2571(18)SCL)
1. Carrier violated the Agreement(s) on October 11, 2000, when it
allowed Clerk S. L. Vaughn to make Yard Inventory
Adjustments (YSIA) on train/track/cut at Louisville, Kentucky.
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."
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 bearing thereon.
In these claims, the Organization alleges that the Carrier assigned Clerks at
Louisville, Kentucky, yard inventory adjustments rather than assigning that work
to a Customer Service Representative ("CSR") at the Customer Service Center
("CSC") in Jacksonville, Florida. The record reveals that the specific computer
function involved for the disputed work is YSIA.
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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.
The record in this case shows that the disputed work: (1) was performed by
someone other than a CSR at the CSC; (2) was performed by a Clerk at Louisville,
Kentucky, prior to the 1991 Implementing Agreement; and (3) was performed by a
CSR at the CSC after the 1991 Implementing Agreement took effect. Under the
three-part test set forth in Third Division Award 37227, the Organization has shown
that the work was transferred from Louisville to the CSC under the terms of the
1991 Implementing Agreement and was later improperly performed by someone
other than a CSR at the CSC in violation of the parties' Collective Bargaining
Agreements. See Third Division Awards 37234, 37229, 37781 and 37839 involving
similar disputes at Louisville.
With respect to the number of transactions allowed for the remedy, see Third
Division Award 37781:
"There is a dispute over the number of transactions that occurred.
The Carrier asserts that the claims are duplicative and that there
are only five transactions. The Organization asserts that there are
28. Examination of the event listings in the record show that the
Organization is correct and that multiple transactions occurred on
the same dates."
Under the rationale stated in Third Division Award 37227, these claims shall
be sustained at the $15.00 requirement.
AWARD
Claim sustained in accordance with the Findings.
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ORDER
This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders
that an award favorable to the Claimant(s) be made. The Carrier is ordered to make
the Award effective on or before 30 days following the postmark date the Award is
transmitted to the parties.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day of August
2006.
_ CARRIER MEMBERS' DISSENT
TO
THIRD DIVISION AWARDS 37836, 37837, 37838, 37839, 37840
DOCKETS CL-37040, CL-37060, CL-37079, CL-37084, CL-37097
(Referee Edwin
H.
Benn)
These Awards involve the performance of various computer functions, including
adjusting yard inventory, at field locations
by
Clerks and/or Yacdmasters.
Awards 37836 and 37837 denied the claims presented therein. The claims that
culminated in Awards 37838, 37839 and 37840 were sustained
in
accordance with the
Findings. Although two of the five Awards decided the involved claims in favor of the
Carrier, we nevertheless,dissent on the ground that the Board lacks the subject matter
jurisdiction to decide any of these claims. For the sake of brevity, our
Dissent
to Third
Division Awards 37760 through 37765 is incorporated herein by reference.
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