0 P SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 167

















FINDINGS: In order to make an estimate of the number of certain diesel

locomotive parts it would require for repairs during 1955, the Mechanical

Department used its employes to take off from the Cardex records of the

Store Department the number of such parts which had been charged to the

Mechanical Department during the first nira months of 1954. The work was

done in the office where they were regularly employed and this was the first case when that work had been required.
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        Claim here is based on the contention that the work of obtaininJ information from the Store Department Cardex records is the exclusive function of the employes assigned to the work of making the original record.

        The work here involved was not reserved to any seniority group by bulletin or practice. While the work of making the entries on the Cardex record belon.-ed to the employes of the Store Department' the records themselves were the property of the Carrier and might be taken and used by any department when needed in connection zrlth its own work.

        The Employes rely on Award 59?9 of the Third Division. In that Award, Referee Messmore seems to have been controlled by the undisputed statement in the record that the work of abstracting all data from the time sheets normally attached to claimant's position. We find no such situation here.


        AtdARD: Claim denied.


                                      s/ Mortimer Stone

                                      Mortimer Stone

                                      Chairman, Neutral Member


                                      Is/ D. L. Clavel ,_

                                      D. L. Clavel

                                      Carrier Member


                                      Wm. J. Donlon

                                      Organization Member


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