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Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No.
6463
SECOND DIVISION Docket No.
63-21
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The Secand Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Irving T. 8ergman when award was rendered.
( System Federation No. 72, Railway Employes'
( Department, A. F. of L. - C. I. O.
Parties to Dispute: ( (Firemen and Oilers
The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey
Dispute: Claim of Employes:
1. That under the current agreement, Laborer
David
Anderson was
unjustly treated and dismissed from service without good cause
effective May 13., 1971.
2. That accordingly, the Carrier be ordered to reinstate Laborer
David Anderson with his seniority and service rights unimpaired
and compensate for all time
lost, and
made whole for all benefits provided for in the agreement.
Findings:
The Second Division of the Adjustment Board., upon the whole record and a7!l
the evidence., finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employe
or
employes
involved
in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Tabor
Act as approved June 21,
1934.
This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction
over
the dispute
involved herein.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
Claimant was employed by this carrier for eleven years. The record
does not show nor does the carrier claim any prior improper conduct or censure for
any reason, in other words, a clean record.
On the day in question, claimant asked about a day's pay shortage. It
is alleged that claimant became abusive and insubordinate while pressing his pay
claim. He was taken
out
of service at that tine and was dismissed after the hearing.
At the hearing, the carrier's hearing officer read into the record three
written statements which had been prepared before the hearing. One statement was
by the engine house foreman who was the individual alleged to have been abused
orally by claimant. It was his order to leave the office -~inich claimant did not
-mmediately obey. A second statement was by an employe, not identified except
..hat he was with the foreman at the time. A third statement was that of a male
clerk in the office.
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Form 1 Award IIo. 6463
Page 3 Docket No. 63M.
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73
We are not going to decide the conflicting version of
-Uhat
took place.
We fail to see, however, how the hearing officer could determine credibility of
the witnesses under these circumstances. In addition, it is possible that the
hearing officer could have prejudged the case if he relied on the written statements and disregarded claimant's testimony, and ignored the fact that the carrier's
witnesses did not deny the claimant's testimony after they heard it.
We shall not comment upon the weight which might ordinarily be given to
identical -vmitten statements prepared in advance by witnesses who are available to
testify, and read into the record. The determination to be made in this case
follows from the failure of the carrier's witnesses to testify, contradict or
deny the claimant's testimony.
In this
situation,
there is no room to consider
mitigating
circumstances,
to resolve the conflicting testimony or to comment upon the penalty. it is the conduct of the heariryg which is at fault insofar as the presentation of evidence and
testimony did not provide a basis for the decision reached by the hearing officer.
It follows, therefore, that the decision must be considered to be arbitrary
and
we so find.-
AWARD
ClaUn sustained.
NATIONAL RAIIRQA:D ADJUST BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest: t-~'~-i
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Executive Secretanr
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of February, 1673..