Award No. 72

Case No. SG-14-W

SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 605

PARTIES ) Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
TO ) and
DISPUTE ) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

QUESTION
AT ISSUE: (a) Did the Carrier violate the February 7, 1965 National
Agreement and subsequent interpretations thereto when
on or about June 20, 1966, it unilaterally transferred
Illinois Division Gang No. 1 from the employes' home
seniority district (Illinois Division) to the Colorado
Division, a separate seniority district?

(b) Should the members of Signal Gang No. 1 be paid for all time worked on the Colorado Division, at their respective rates of pay on a punitive basis -- such pay to be in addition to any other compensation to which they are entitled?

(c) Should the members of Signal Gang No. 1 be paid for all hours they were not permitted to work on their home seniority district (the Illinois Division) at their respective rates of pay, account of the unilateral transfer?

(d) Should the employes of Signal Gang No. 1 be reimbursed

for all traveling tine and living expenses incurred account

of the unilateral transfer off their home seniority district?

This to include all expenses outlined in General Chairman

W. H. Lewis' July S, 1966 letter to Acting General Manager

W. R. Henry initiating the claim here involved.

OPINION
OF BOARD: The issue presented in this dispute is identical to that re
solved in Award No. 70 (case No. SG-15-W), and this
Board is governed accordingly.
AWARD

The answer to the issue to be Resolved is answered in the negative.

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.i: !Jes :mgton, D. C.

Mav 't6. 1969