Docket No. CL-11122
Award No, 5
SPECIAL BDARD OF ADJUSTMENT N). 374
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Express and Station Employes
and
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
STATT OF CTAIM:
"Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(a) The Carrier violated the Rules Agreement, effective May 1,
1942, except as amended, particularly the Scope Rule and Rule 3-C-2,
when it improperly abolished a regular position of Warehouseman, incumbent Columbus J. Piazza, located at the Freight Station, Union
City, Pennsylvania, former Northern Division, effective December 1,
1953.
(b) The abolished position should be re-established in order to
terminate this claim, and Columbus J. Piazza should be restored to his
former status and allowed eight hours' pay a day, as a penalty, for
December 1, 1953, and all subsequent dates until the violation is
corrected.
(c) All other affected employes should be restored to their
former status and be reimbursed for all monetary loss sustained.
(Docket C-818)"
FINDINGS:
The claim here is that the Agreement was violated by the Carrier when
it "improperly abaoiished a regular position of Warehouseman" at the Union
City Freight Station. It is claimed the Scope Rule and Rule 3-C-2 were
violated.
The Joint Statement of Agreed Upon Facts lists the bulletined duties
of the Warehouseman job as follows:
(a) Receive and deliver freight.
(b) Assist in handling mail and baggage from Train 581.
(c) Assist in janitor work at passenger station and
duties pertinent to maintain warehouse.
The parties agree that in addition to the bulletined duties, the
Warehouseman job also included the following:
(d) Clean box cars, when necessary, for loading L.C.L.
freight.
Prepare pouches for L.C.L. cars.
Pouch weigh bills.
Figure tonnage and make exception reports.
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(h) Janitor work at freight and passenger station
(partia3,7y-covered in (c) ).
(i) Handle, load, stow and truck freight. (also
involves (a) ).
The parties are also agreed that following the abolishment of the
warehouseman position effective December 1,
1953
the duties of that position
were assigned to Clerical Position Symbol F-123 with the exception of the
Janitor work at the passenger station ( (c) and (h) above), "which work is
now being performed
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the clerk and the agent with the block operators doing
what Janitor work needs to be performed in that part of the passenger station
occupied by them."
In the light of these agreed upon facts, we cannot find achy agreement
violaticn here dispite Organization§voluminous presentations. It agreed to
these statements of fact which show the duties of the warehouseman's position
were assigned to other employes covered by the same agreement.
AWARD:
Claim denied.
Signed this 12th day of December 1961.
/s/ Edward A. Lynch
:.. A. Lynch, Chairman
/a/ A. E.~2yles, /s/ A-.-B B. Seward
A. E. Myles, Hember , reward, Employe P7ember
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