Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 38083
Docket No. CL-39139
07-3-05-3-595
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee
Martin H. Malin 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 TCU (NEC-2284) in behalf
of Claimant William Fortune:
The Carrier violated be Amtrak-Northeast Corridor Clerks Rules
Agreement on April 27, 2002, when it diverted employee, K.
Williams from her regularly assigned position in the Newark Ticket
Office Accounting Office, Job Symbol No. TC/TAC-6 hours Sam to
4:30pm to sell tickets at the Ticket Window. In doing so, the Carrier
failed to follow the .Agreement in filling known vacancies in
accordance with the Overtime rule, Appendix E Article 3c, 5a, 6, 7 -
Claimant Win Fortune who was on his rest day, senior and is
qualified to sell tickets that day. Diverted employee, Williams sold
Tickets that day for eight (8) hours.
Claimant Win Fortune now be allowed eight hours (8) at the
punitive rate of pay on Account of this violation.
The Carrier is in violation of Rule 1 - Scope (paragraph h), Rule 4A-4 (wrk. On rest days) Appendix E - Article 3c, 5a, 6, 7, Appendix
H - Article IV-(d), Rule 2-A-1(Bulleting/Awarding) and other rules.
On 4/27/02 the Carriers Supervision ordered the Accounting clerk
assigned to perform Accounting Work to sell tickets - Kim Williams
Ticket/Accounting Clerk position was advertised for her to sell
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tickets on specified days of the week and that on Saturdays and
Sundays she would work in the Accounting office to go over the
regularly assigned Ticket Seller work, balance the office work, and
then send the Accounting Office work to the Main Accounting office
located in Philadelphia, PA. She could not perform this work this
day due to being diverted to sell tickets. In diverting Williams the
Carrier circumvented the Overtime rule of not calling the senior,
available, qualified employee from which the Extra Board would
have jurisdiction of vacancies, Territory to cover vacancies, that
exist from this Work location.
The regularly assigned position (Job Symbol No. TC/TAC-1) in the
Accounting Office Description of Duties states, "Travel and Train
Information will be dismissed at Ticket windows when retired."
Williams Description of Duties also states the same and the
Preponderance of the position on Saturdays and Sundays is:
Accounting Work.
When claimants local representative met with the Carriers manager
to resolve claim without having to write a claim and that claimants
representative pointed out the description did not include selling
tickets - the Carrier representative said yes, it does - it is exactly like
the positions at New York Penn Station Accounting Office Clerks
Job descriptions. This is Untrue. Included is a copy of one of the
Descriptions of a NY Penn Station, Symbol TC/TAC-4 which states
(in the Carriers) unauthorized position at this location - which reads
in part "Employees will personally wait on customers and sell tickets
when the work load demands.
The Carrier clearly had a known vacancy that day and to
circumvent the established way of calling out vacancies at overtime -
deliberately did not call out claimant to avoid paying out Overtime
for the vacancy.
Claimant Win Fortune would have accepted the call, worked the
vacancy, and would have been paid at the punitive rate of pay of
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eight (8) hours for work performed. He was not given a first/second
call for his interest in the work. Claimants representative did
request from the Carrier a call-out sheet for the vacancy - no call out
sheet was made out according to the Carrier that day - because no
overtime was filed for this position.
This claim has been presented in accordance with Rule 7-b-1of the
NEC Agreement in Accordance with Rule 25 of the Off Corridor
Clerks Rules Agreement and should be allowed as presented."
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 claim is governed by our decision in Third Division Award 38076,
Claim 11. For the reasons stated therein, the claim is denied.
AWARD
Claim denied.
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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 21st day of February 2007.