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C AWARD N0. 37

0 NRAB DOCKET ND. CL-8839

P CASE N0. 38

Y SW FILE R-51-1094

BRC FILE NR-27-18

SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 169

PARTIES) The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks

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DISPUTE) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

STATEPILNT OF CLAIId: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood:

(1) That Carrier violated the Clerks? current Agreement on March 1, 1954, when it transferred work from the Texarkana Local Freight Office to the office of Auditor rrei;ht Accounts, St. Louis; Missouri, and to the office of Auditor Freight Accounts, Tyler, Texas, and in July, 1954, when all of the work was trans-ftred to the office of Auditor Freight Accounts, Tyler, Texas.

(2) That C. W. Williams, H. D. Smith and R. D. Kelly, Texarkana Local Freight Office, and all other employees of that office who were adsersely affected, due to work in connection with Government shipments to Defense, Texas, being transferred, be reimbursed for all monetary loss suffered by them commencing March 1, 1954, and continuing until the violation is corrected.

(3) That the A3ent Accounts Clerks in the office of Auditor Freight Accounts, St. Louis, Missouri, who were required to perform the work transferred from Texarkana, be coiqpensated at the punitive rate of pay for the time spent in performing the transferred work, from March 1, 1954, to about July 9, 1954.

(4-a) That Rate Clerk G. L. Guyer, Freight Accounting Department, Tyler, Texas, be compensated at the punitive rate of*pay for the time spent in performing the transferred rate work, from March 1, 1954, and continuing until the violation is corrected.

(4-b) That J. L. Bailey, Agents Accounts Bureau, and any other clerks in the office of Auditor Frei;ht Accounts, Tyler, Texas, who were required to perform the accounting work transferred frcm Texarkana, be compensated at the punitive rate of pay for the tine spent in performing the tranfferrad work, from about July 9, 1954,, and continuing until the violation is corrected.

NOTE: Reparation due employees to be determined by a joint check of Carriers payroll and other records.

FINDINGS: From the facts in this case it appears that the work that formerly was

being performed in the Texarkana office was also being performed in the

Tyler and St. Louis offices, and Carrier is within its right to abolish jobs to

avoid duplication of urork. There does not appear to have been a violation of

Rule 1.8-2 in this case.

AWARD: Claim denied.

/s/ Frank P. Douglass.

Frank P. Douglass, Chairman

/s/ 1T. E. Straubinger /s/ L. C. Albert

W. E.-Straubinger, Employee Member L. C. Albert, Carrier Member

Tyler, Texas - April 25, 1957.