Awards ... Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board, Volume 42

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Page 757 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service...
Page 757 - ... foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving...
Page 233 - Work performed on Sundays and the following legal holidays — namely. New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas (provided when any of the above holidays fall on Sunday, the day observed by the State, Nation, or by proclamation shall be considered the holiday), shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half...
Page 806 - Promotion, Assignments and Displacements. "Employes covered by these rules shall be in line for promotion. Promotion, assignments and displacements under these rules shall be based on seniority, fitness and ability; fitness and ability being sufficient, seniority shall prevail. "NOTE: The word 'sufficient...
Page 461 - Seventh. No carrier, its officers or agents, shall change the rates of pay, rules, or working conditions of its employees, as a class as embodied in agreements except in the manner prescribed in such agreements or in section 6 of this Act.
Page 76 - The disputes between an employee or group of employees and a carrier or carriers growing out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, or working conditions...
Page 386 - They must contain neither information nor instructions not essential to such movements. They must be brief and clear; in the prescribed forms when applicable; and without erasure, alteration or interlineation.
Page 386 - An inferior train must keep out of the way of opposing superior trains and failing to clear the main track by the time required by rule must be protected as prescribed by Rule 99. Extra trains must clear the time of regular trains minutes unless otherwise provided, and will be governed by train orders with respect to opposing extra trains.
Page 842 - Any dispute or controversy arising out of the interpretation or application of any of the provisions of this agreement shall be referred for decision to a committee, the carrier members of which shall be the Carriers...
Page 547 - Linemen's work shall consist of the building, repairing, and maintaining of pole lines and supports for service wires and cables; catenary and monorail conductors; trolley and feed wires, overhead and underground, together with their supports; maintaining, inspecting, and installing third rail and cables for third rai!

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