International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 19 v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge #19, appeals from the district court’s refusal to enforce four awards of the National Railroad Adjustment Board and to make the awards applicable to employees situated similarly to the named claimant employees. Because the board did not exceed its jurisdiction in making the awards, we reverse.

The union and Southern Pacific Transportation Company entered a collective bargaining agreement which provided that some traveling motorcar mechanics be paid on a monthly basis rather than the usual hourly…