NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20669

TAD DIVISION Docket Number TD-20518

William M. Edgett, Referee

(American Train Dispatchers Association

PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Burlington Northern Inc.

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the American Train Dispatchers Association that:

(a) The Burlington Northern, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "the Carrier"), violated the currently effective Agreement between the parties, Article 21 thereof in particular, when it failed and refused to properly compensate Claimant Train Dispatcher G. N. Nadeau for private automobile expenses incurred in connection with traveling from his established headquarters to an outlying point to attend an investigation on November 17, 1971 at the request of the Carrier.

(b) Because of said violation, the Carrier shall now be required to compensate Claimant G. N. Nadeau in the amount of $49.77 as reimbursement for said automobile mileage expense.

OPINION OF BOARD: Based on the particular facts and circumstances of
this case the Board has concluded that the claim
should be sustained.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the parties waived oral hearing;

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 the claim should be sustained.

Award Number 20669 page 2

Docket Number TD-20518

A W A R D

Claim sustained.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT HOARD

$I Order of Third Division

ATTEST:

Executive Secretaay

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of March 1975.

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