Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 10120
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 10032-:C
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The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Hyman Cohen when award was rendered.


Parties to Dispute:


Dispute: Claim of Employes:










Form 1 Award No. 10120
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Trial Transcript, November 14, 1980, Federal District Court of Kansas,
pages 125, 126 answer by Mr. Brewster, Union Pacific Railroad general
car foreman, to question directed by Ronald Gott, attorney for Missouri
Pacific Railroad .













Findings:

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 employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.


Form 1 Award No. 10120
Page 3 Docket No. 10032
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Kenneth L. Hinton was last employed by the Carrier on September 18, 1968, at which time he held an assignment as Carman at the Carrier's facility located at Kansas City, Kansas. Following an investigation which was held on August 29, 1968, Mr. Hinton was dismissed from service for violating the Carrier's Operating Rules 702 and 702 (A) for sleeping in his automobile during his regular tour of duty.

The first notice the Carrier was given of Mr. Hinton's grievance was in November, 1982 when it received a complaint which he refers to as "forthcoming" and sets forth the following:







Since the grievance was not "handled in the usual manner" as required under Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act, the Board concludes that the grievance is dismissed without any consideration to be given to the merits. Even if there was an employment relationship between Mr. Hinton and the Carrier (which has not existed for fourteen (14) years) the grievance was not properly handled in accordance with Rule 35 of the Agreement between the Carrier and System Federation No. 105, Railway Employees' Department, AFL, Mechanical Section No. 1. Furthermore, the grievance is vague, indefinite and uncertain and thus it is impossible to determine with certainty the essential facts constituting the grievance so that the Carrier can adequately respond to it.






                            By Order of Second Division


Attest:
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        ancy J./~eer - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 17th day of October 1984.