SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 310
The Order of Railroad Telegraphers
and
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM- "Claim of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers for all time
and expense of the members we represent as a result of abol
ishing "DS" Office, Terre Haute, and assigning work from this office to employes
of other Departments." (Southwestern Division Case No. 31 - System Docket No.
207)
FINDINGS,
D. S. Block office was closed February 10, 1953.
The Engineers' and Firemen's crew register was relocated from DS to the
Baggage Room, and a Dispatcher's telephone was installed in the Crew Dispatcher's
office at Terre Haute East Yards.
Train Dispatchers furnish the crew Dispatchers with arrival time of Passenger trains and Crew Dispatchers furnish Train Dispatchers with names of passenger
engine crews departing out on passenger trains out of Terre Haute only.
Group #2 clerical forces at Baggage Room handle bulletin board work in the
Baggage Room, and witness signatures of engine crews on register, and prepare
time reports for departing passenger engine crews, which was formerly performed
by Operator at DS office.
The above constitutes the Agreed-upon-Facts in this claim.
There can be no doubt that the Telegrapher's duties at DS have ceased to
exist. The remaining work for which petitioning Organization strongly contends
is mainly in the last paragraph above. It is, by its nature, clerical work over
which petitioners have no exclusive claim. It is work which Carrier claims requires 50 minutes in performance each day.
AWARD.
Claim denied. -
Signed this 10th day of April, 1961.
/ s/ E. A. Lynch
E. A. Lynch, Chairman
/s/ C. E. Alexander /s/ R. J. Woodman
C. E. Alexander, Carrier Member R. J. Woodman,.Employe·Member