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STATE<0NT OF CLAIM;
SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 171
BROTHERHOOD OF RAM'IAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOIMES
vs
GREAT NORTHERN RAILRIAY COMPANY
2101sim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of Railway arid Steamship
Clerks, Freigh'o Handlers, Express and Station Employees that the Carrier
violated the rules of the current agreement.
Al.
When, on June
4, 11
and 12,
1955,
the Carrier failed to call employee
C. A. Anderson for overtime work in connection with bs_s position and on
June
25, =-'55,
the C=rrier failed to call James W. Reid for overtime work
in connection with his regular position.
U2.
That the Carrier now be required to compensate employee C. A. Anderson
for June
4, 1955,
and for ea:h~Saturday, Sundt;y and holiday thereafter up
to and including June
19, 1955,
and James W. held for June
25, 1955,
and for
each and e-.-Try &=turday, Sunday and holiday thereafter that he wao not
called to perfora overtime work on his position, and other employees used."
FINDINGS: This Special Board of Adjustment, upon the whole record and all the
evidence, finds that:
The Carrier and the employee or employees in this dispute are respectively Carrier and emplcyees within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved
June
21, 1934.
volved herein.
This Special Board of Adjustment has jurisdiction over the dispute in-
The employees state that the positions involved in this claim are held
by the claimants, and that, their posit.-'.on was that of a Record Clerk assigned to
a five-boy position,. JIonday Through Fr.`Jay, with Sat,:ida- A.--d S··nday as rest days.
The dub~.es of these Ecoord Clerka were sach that
VIey
had ~o be nerfcrmad on
Saturdays and Sundeys in crder to keep up the work; that th.e Car::°ier, instead of
calling the in^n:be
a
s of these posit'_cns as provided for in Ru_'.e
37,
called other
employees to perform this work on an overtime basis. The organization states that
a Manifest Clerk performs approximately 4 hours of manifest work, and that the
balance of his time on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays is used in performing
Record Clerk work, which ;s a violation of Rule
37.
The Carrier states that the claimants herein are employed as Record Clerks
in the yard office at Inter'.)ay, Washington; that their basis db:Lios are to paint^..:.n
the car record book, referrad to in railway parlance as "The Bible
.t,9
They pes·f'°rm
this work by punching cards and running them through a machine for the tabulation
of record sheets; that these positions are assigned five days a week, Monday
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through Friday. Manifest Clerks in the same office are assigned to manifest trains,
operating machines, and other duties in line rri.th yard office work. They punch
cards-on all trains they handle directly from train sheets or outbound 1103 reports, run cards through a machine called the interpretor, and place cards in the
sorter case above the sorter machine in the designated pockets. Car Checkers are
assigned to check cars and to punch cards for drag lists whenever they have time.
Since the-Manifest Clerks and the Checkers do not always have time to punch all
the cards, the Record Clerks punch some of them before running them through the
machine to make it possible to complete "The Bible.'t On Saturday and Sunday,
Manifest Clerks and
Car
Checkers continue to punch cards, run them through the
interpreter, and p:.ace them in the sorter case exactly as they do on ocher days of
the week. No compiling or completing the car record book is done on Saturday or
Sunday.
From the evidence produced in this record, this Board can find no violation of Rule 37 by the Carrier. The Board further finds that the work performed
by the Manifest Clerks and Car Checkers is not work that exclusively belongs to
the Record Clerks; therefore, this claim must be denied.
A Z9 A R D
Claim denied.
s T~Ue.s
C. Beraev
Thomas C. Bagley, Chairman
Is/
C. A. Pearson
C. A. Pearson, Carrier mere ber
/s/ F. A. Emne
F. A, Emme, Evip=oyee Member
Signed at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 9th day of May, 1957.