PARTIES) The New York Central Railroad Company
 TO ) and
 DISPUTE;) Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
 QUESTION Is Carrier correct in its interpretation that Articles II
 AT ISSUE: and III of Mediation Agreement No. A-7128, dated February 7,
 1965, require the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen to enter
 into an implementing agreement, pursuant to said February 7,
 1965 Mediation Agreement, to provide a force adequate to
 meet Carrier's requirements by transferring employees in
 the same craft and represented by the same Organization from
 one agreement territory to another agreement territory on
 the Carrier's railroad system
 OPINION The Organization has five separate basic agreements with
 OF BOARD: the New York Central. Each agreement covers different dis
 tricts, territories or divisions. In June 1965, the Carrier
 requested the Organization to negotiate an implementing agreement providing
 for the transfer of protected employees from agreement territories east of
 Buffalo to agreement territories west of Buffalo. Carrier's stated reason
 was that a surplus of such employees in the east and a shortage of such
 employees in the west existed. The Organization refused to enter into
 such an implementing agreement.

 Article III, Section 1 of the February 7, 1965 Mediation Agreement declares, in pertinent part, that "the carrier shall have the right to transfer work and/or transfer employees throughout the system which do not require the crossing of craft lines." The transfer of employees contemplated by the Carrier involves movement among districts, territories or divisions on the Carrier's "system" as that term is used in said Section 1 of Article III. No crossing of craft lines would be involved. The fact that such transfers would require movement among agreement territories does not bar the Carrier's contemplated action under Article III, Section 1.

Article III of the February 7, 1965 Mediation Agreement requires the Organization to enter into an implementing agreement with the Carrier for the purpose set forth in the question submitted.






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                  - 2 - Case No. SG-1-E


                  IRIYEMERIEES Continued


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Washington, D. C. - December 19, 1967