PARTIES) Transportation-Communication Employees Union
 TO ) and
 DISPUTE:) Midland Valley Railroad Company
 QUESTIONS 1. Does the transferring of any work performed by
 AT ISSUE: employees covered by the Telegraphers Agreement
 to employees not covered by that Agreement con
 stitute a violation of Article III, Section 17
 2. Did Carrier violate the Agreement when it moved
 work performed by an employee covered by the
 Telegraphers Agreement fry one point to another
 without first following the procedure set forth in
 Article III, Sections 1 and 2 or 37
 OPINION Effective May 28, 1965 the Carrier abolished the
 OF BOARD: telegrapher-clerk position at Wichita, Kansas and the
 remaining duties of that position were transferred to
 employees of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company at that point.
 Tte questions posed to the Board by the Employees ask whether this
 action of the Carrier violated Article III of the February 7, 1965
 Mediation Agreement.

 Article VII, Section 3 of said Agreement requires us to confine our decisions strictly to the questions specifically submitted to us. It is undisputed that the work here involved was transferred from one carrier to another. Article III of the Agreement permits a carrier to transfer work throughout its system, subject to stated conditions. The Article is not applicable where, as here, an inter-carrier transfer of work occurred.

            The answer to Questions 1 and 2 is "No".


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Washington, D. C. - December 19, 1967

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