SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0.
553
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (PACIFIC LINES)
ROY R. RAY, Referee
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
Award No. 11
Docket No. 11
Case No. 1'1
ORT FILE: 3134
"Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad
Telegraphers on the Southern Pacific (Pacific Lines), that:
CLAIM. NO. 1
The Carrier violates the parties' Agreement when it
purportedly abolished the agency positions at the
stations and on the dates set forth below, while the
work of the positions remained, by transferring the
work of the nominally abolished position to Brawley,
California, and/or Colton, California, where it is
now being performed by employes not covered by the
Telegraphers' Agreement.
Agency
Work removed to Date
Calipatria, Cal. Brawley, Cal. August 12
1959
Guasti, Cal. Colton, Cal. May 28,
1359
Riverside, Cal. Colton, Cal. April
15, 1959
2. The Carrier shall, because of the violations set
forth above, restore the work to the stations from
which it was improperly removed and to the employes
under the parties' Agreement entitled to its
performance.
3.
The Carrier shall, in addition to the foregoing,
commencing August
25, 19599
compensate each employe
adversely affected by virtue,of Carrier's violative
act for any loss of wages-plus actual expenses:
CLAIM N0.
2
l.- The Carrier violates the parties' Agreement when it
purportedly abolished the Agent-Telegrapher's
position at Coachella, Cal., without in face abolishing the work thereof, by transferring the work .of
nominally abolished position to the Indio Agency where
it is now being performed by employes outside the
Agreement.
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II
2. The Carrier shall, because of the violation set forth
above, restore the work to the station from which it
was improperly removed and to the employes under the
parties' Agreement entitled to its performance.
3. The Carrier shall, because.of the violation set forth
above, commencing December ly
1959,
compensate each
emprioye adversely affected by reason of the Carrier's
violative act for any loss of wages plus actual
expenses."
OPINION OF THE BOARD:
The claims in this ease involve four stations or agencies
on Carrier's Los Angeles Division which were closed between_Apri1
15
and December ly
1959.
In each instance Carrier determined that the
need for the Agency had ceased to exist, gave notice to the Employes
as required by Rule 21(d) of the Agreement and received authority
from the Public Utility Commission of California to close the Agency.
The Agencies (Calipatria9 Guastiy Riverside and Coachella, California)
were reclassified as non-agency stations and the remaining work was
moved.to other agencies where it was assigned to Agent-Telegraphers,
Telegrapher-Clerks and/or Clerical Employes, and to conductors
depending upon the character of the work. Prior to the closing some
clerical work from two of the stations had been centralized at larger
stations. Some time after the transfers work originally moved from
two of the stations was regionalized at central stations. ·The claim
for Coachella is
a
duplicate of one in'Case No.
3.
.The .Organization made the same contentions and arguments
in this case as it made in Case No.
5.
We are convinced that there
is nothing in these claims to distinguish them from those in Case
5
or to warrant a different result. Therefore, for the reasons
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expressed in Award No.
5
we hold that Carrier's action in closing
the stations and transferring the remaining work to other stations
did not contravene the Agreement.
FINDING
That Carrier did not violate the Agreement.
AWARD
The claims are denied.
SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0.
553
vCc~
Roy R. Ray, Chairman
D. A. Bobo, Employe Member L. . Sloan, arrier Member
San Franciscoy California
November 99 1964