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0 CASE N0.
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BROTIERHOOD OF RAIIkdAY AND STFAP4SHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT EANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EEIPLO DS
vs
GREAT NORTHERN RAIWAY COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
WClaim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes that the
Carrier violated the rules of the current agreement, effective September 1,
19500
ill* 1dhen on November 27 and
28, 19540
they abol iehed the Third Trick
Position at Allouez Yard of Classification Clerk and the work was turned
over and performed by yardmasters, employes not covered by clerical agreement.
"2. That the Carrier now be required to compensate Ray Owen for two
days? pay for NovE.mher 27 and 28,
1954
at the pro rata rate account his
position abolished and work performed by others."
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 respect`vely carrier and employees within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved
June 21, 1934.
This Special Board of Adjustment has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.
The Employees state that the claimant was a third-trick classification
clerk at Allouez Yard and had been performing the duties of transcribing the number
of cars moved to various tracks, kept track of the block number, the grade of the
ore, the space to which the car should be assigned on the ore docks, made out shove
slips for crews moving ore to the ore docks, etc. That he had been performing these
duties during the entire ore season, but on November
26, 1954'.
his position visa
abolished, two days before the actual closing of the ore season. That cars of ore
still remained to be handled on November 27th and November 28th, and that the work
that had been performed by this claimant was performed by yardmasters on November
27th and 28th.
Carrier states that the claimant9s position was known as classification
clerk and his major assigned duties were to assist the yardmaster. That it is the
prerogative of management to abolish bulletin positions when the work situation is
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such that no longer is a position justifiable relative to need, and that the work
performed by the yardmaster at Allouez varies within his normal range of work responsibility and perfa_~·.sarce, and that when the yardmaster no longer needs the
assistance of the classif-cation clerk, the position may be abolished. That at the
time the classification clerkps position was abolished, the last of the ore to be
shipped during the 1954 ore season had already been moved in, weighed and classified. Thus, there was no further need for a classification clerk and any future
movements of ore were the responsibility of the yardmaster and that this responsibility had been his for many years, and that he only required assistance when ore
movements were heavy.
From the evidence submitted the Board finds that the work performed by
this claimant was not exclusively clerks' work and that it could be performed as
incidental work by the yardmaster. The Board has held many times that the duties
of a yardmaster are varied and that essentially their work is supervisory, and that
as an incideat to their supa=visory duties yardmasbers of necessity perform some
clerical work.
When this classification clerkps position was bulletined, the bulletin
did not state, as some bulletins have stated in the past, that this position would
be for the duration of the ore season. Therefore,
t'::P
Carrier could abolish this
job on November 26th, two days before the close of the ore season,
This claim is without merit and must be denied.
A LT A R D
Claim denied.
/s/ Thomas C. Be~lev
Thomas C. Begley, Chairman
/sl C. A. Pearson
C. A. Pearson, Carrier Member
F. A.
Emme, Employee
Member
Signed at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 10th day of April, 1957.
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