Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 
8052
 
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 7897
  
2-SLSF-FO-'79
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Irwin M, Lieberman when award was rendered.
 
System Federation No, 22,Railway Employes'
Department, A. F, of L,  C. I. 0.
Parties to Dispute: ~  (Firemen & Oilers)
( St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
Dispute: 
Clam 
of Employes:
1. That Mr. S. D, Anderson was unjustly dismissed from the service
 
of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company on August 
31,
 
1977 
on charges of a__leged possession of narcotics while on
 
his assigned duty at the Springfield Diesel Shop at approximately
 
3 :15 A. M., August 1`i, 
1977, 
That the action of said Company
 
was unfair, unjust arid unreasonable,
2. That accordingly, the St, Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
 
caar_pensate Laborer S. D. Anderson, at the pro rata rate of pay
 
for each work day beginning August 
31, 1977, 
until he is reinstated
 
to service and in adc!ition receive all benefits accruing to any
 
other employee in active service, including vacation rights and
 
seniority unimpaired. Claim is also made for Laborer S. D.
 
Anderson, for his actual loss of payment of insurance on his
 
dependents and hospital benefits for himself, and that he be
 
made whole for pension benefits including Railroad Retirement
 
and Unemployment InsLxance, and in addition to the money claimed
 
herein, the Carrier shall pay Mr. Anderson an additional sum of
 
6% 
per annum compounded annually on the anniversary date of said
 
claim.
Findings:
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The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and
all 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 Labor Act as approved June 21, 
193,
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 herein was employed as a Laborer on the Midnight to 8:00 a.m.
shift, at the Diesel Shop, Springfield, Missouri. He was first employed
by Carrier on October 
6, 1976, 
removed from service shortly thereafter and
rehired on January 
15, 1977, 
He was suspended from service August 
15, 1977
for possession of 
marijuana while 
on duty at approximately 
3:15 
A.M.
Following an investigatory hearing, Claimant was dismissed on August 
31, 1977.
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