Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 11382
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 11245
2-MKT-CM-187
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Edwin H. Benn when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen of the United States
( and Canada
Parties to Dispute:
(Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Dispute: Claim of Employes:
1. That the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company violated the
current controlling agreement and the Railway Labor Act, as amended, when
Carmen L. R. Beck was assessed a fifteen (15) day deferred suspension as the
result of an unfair hearing.
2. That the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company be required to
make Carman Beck whole in this case by having this deferred suspension and all
reference thereto removed from his personal record, find him innocent of all
charges and compensate him for all time lost attending his hearing. This time
amounts to seven (7) hours and fifteen (15) minutes pay at the proper pro rata
rate.
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.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
Claimant is a Lead Wreckerman with a service date of November 1967.
As a result of charges dated April 2, 1985, Hearing held on April 23, 1985,
and by letter dated April 24, 1985, Claimant was assessed a 15 day deferred
suspension for violation of General Rule D, Circular No. DP-3 for alleged
negligence in the rerailing of a car on March 23, 1985.
Claimant was involved in the same incident fully discussed in Second
Division Award 11355. We find nothing in this record to show that Claimant
was negligent in the performance of his duties on March 23, 1985. For the
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reasons set forth in that Award, we shall also require that the suspension
given to Claimant herein be rescinded and expunged from Claimant's record.
Similarly, for the reasons set forth in that Award, we shall deny Claimant's
request for compensation for attending the Hearing.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with -the Findings.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Second Division
Attest:
Nancy J. e~ Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 4th day of November 1987.