SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTME NT N0,, 605


PARTIES) Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
 TO ) and
 DISPUTE:) Union Pacific Railroad Company
 QUESTION Should Carrier now be required to compensate Mr. G, N,
 AT ISSUE: Eizman the difference between the Signal Foreman and the
 CTC Maintainer rates of pay from January 16, 1965, until
 he is restored to a Signal Foreman or a higher rated
 position. LCarrier's File A-1042V
 OPINION The evidence discloses that pursuant to the customary
 OF BOARD: procedure on the property for lack of supervisory
 ability the subject employee was disqualified from the
 Signal Foreman position to which he had been regularly assigned since
 February 1963. In the voluntary exercise of his seniority rights,
 said employee obtained a CTC Maintainer position. Having done so,
 the employee was no longer entitled to the level of compensation protec
 tion applicable to his former employment as a Signal Foreman.

                    AWARD


            The answer to the Question submitted is in the negative.


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Washington, D. C. - December 19, 1967