Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
SECOND DIVISION
Award No. 12986
Docket No. 12823
96-2-93-2-187

The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee Robert E. Peterson when award was rendered.


PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Consolidated Rail Corporation

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:







FINDINGS:

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:
Form 1 Award No. 12986
Page 2 Docket No. 12823


The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employee 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.


The dispute at issue involves the same parties and the same claimant as in Second Division Award 12976, except that the date of claim differs. The arguments of the parties are also not unlike those which they had advanced in this prior case.


For the same reasons this Board set forth in its resolution of the like claim in Award 12976, the instant claim will also be denied for a lack of applicable Agreement support.


                          AWARD


      Claim denied.


                          ORDER


This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimant(s) not be made.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD By Order of Second Division


                            Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 2nd day of February 1996.