PUBLIC LAW
DOARV
N'fl.2105 'gRF
Case N0 119-l
award No 1$»
Panzes to d
Union Pacific Railroad
and
United Transpor-mtion union
Statement oLlaim
Claim c6 coadu;.;or P
M Lee
and cr c:w for one yard da;, JAI;. ''Q_ 19~, 3ccc.unt
rztiurred to s;~ire!- a long, car from a
short
car white yard ere:. was or, dun
C7piaion of hoard
Claimants were operating a train rc2dy to degas Holl;-wood. Yard when it was discostred that there was a switching error.. the Carner says, which had a short car
coupled
to a long arse They claim this to
be a safety hazard. The vardmaster instricted
;;;e
crew.
to set out the lore., car before departing
The Organization, howe,cer, says the crew Aas instvucted h;: the Yardmaster
To
switch the long car away from the short car. and thix the claimants did
The Carrier says the Organtaanor cites no agreement support
The
Carrier m put to the job of supporting its instruction as a movement
%.v' hic'.1
the
cre~v could do under the Agreement It cites National Agrcarnents of 1972 which provide
that tae crew could, ,70thout p:nalty, "switch out defcctkre czrs from their own train re
:gar diess
of when discovered "
Thcy did not switch taut a defecti-c car, but, rather, corrected an error, rearranged
a car, arid ;his is
t.at
allowed t-der the cited pnwasians of the Air?eme;tt.
ind i nQ
That
the Agre:ment was violated
. . , . /JG j3 Np I °S
tv rd.
Claim sustained as outlined in Opinion oPBoard.
Bated this 22nd day of January,
t1~9ti,
at Omaha, NE.
.Carrier is directed to make this-,A:~a?d affective ort or before 30 days from dale
ddtt S Criswell, Neutral Member
,4. NPi. Lankford, Organization Member
S. A Bannister, Carrier Member