STATEMENT OF CLAIM: * * * for and in behalf of J. W. Kelley, who is now, and for some time past has been, employed by The Pullman Company as a porter operating out of the Pennsylvania Terminal District of New York, New York.
Because The Pullman Company did, under date of February 27, 1950 take disciplinary action against Porter elley by assessing his service record with a "Reprimand" on charges unproved, which action was unjust, unreasonable, arbitrary, and in abuse of the Company's discretion.
And further, for Porter Kelley's record to be cleared of the charges in this case and for the penalty (a reprimand) to be expunged from his service record.
OPINION OF BOARD: Based upon all the facts and circumstances in this particular case, the Board is not disposed to disturb the action of the Carrier.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and
That under the facts and circumstances as disclosed by the record in this case, we find no basis for disturbing the action of the Carrier.