Court of Appeals for the First Circuit April 10, 1981, 80-1754 (Peter S. Carbone v. Robert W. Meserve)

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

On April 6, 1979 the Trustees of Boston and Maine Corporation, Debtor (hereinafter the railroad) withdrew a complement of crew dispatchers then located at the railroad’s Mechanicville, New York terminal. These dispatchers had maintained a “spare board,” a sheet that listed openings for irregular assignments, and the employees in line for those openings.