(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline end Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, &xprese and Station H~aployea PARTIES TO DISPUTE:



(a) The Carrier violated the Rules Agreement, effective Febru ary 1, 1968, particularly Rule 6-A-1, when it assessed discipline of 30 days, later reduced to 5 days, suspension on R. A. Jamison, Ticket Seller at the Carrier's 30th Street Passenger Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 (b) Claimant R. A. Jamison's record be cleared of the charges brought against him on September 12, 1973.

 (c) Claimant R. A. Jamison be compensated for wage loss sustained during the period out of service.



Subsequent to investigation, Carrier assessed a 30 days' mspension. Prior to submission of the d reduced to a 5 day pension.

 Claimant was a Ticket Clerk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On his second rest defy, a check of cash banks disclosed a $60.00 shortage in his ticket office safe compartment. When Claimant reported for work on the next day, and was confronted with the shortage, he directed the Supervisor


to a locked ticket window drawer - in which he maintained his ticket stock - which contained the $60.00 which had been placed therein when Claimant last went off duty.

 Claimant conceded that be had been assigned a separate compartment in the main safe (small compartment #3), but he placed the money in his ticket stock drawer because:

          "I was saving half dollars in silver and silver certificates for M'. Ward and Fred Martin. I felt that after putting these half dollars and the rest of my due bill in the safe for a number of days, that it made it difficult to open in the morning, because these silver half dollars would be mixed in with my regular loose change. Therefore, on the 13th of August, 1973, this money was placed in my ticket stock drawer and I was under the assumption that this would still be a secure place."


Further, he stated that if he had placed the $6p.00 in his safe compartment, it would have been "...awkward to even open and close the safe drawer more or lees."

 The Hoard has considered the Organization's assertion that the charge was not exact, as required by the Agreement. We disagree with that contention, and find no procedural deficiencies.

 Claimant asserts that use of the ticket drawer resulted in the money being "otherwise protected" as required by the Rule. Although there is no written instruction on the subject, Carrier interprets the rule as permitting an alternate protection system only when a safe is not provided. Hut, in any event, the record is clear that ticket sellers had been instructed that their cash working funds were to be secured in their personally assigned compartments in the main safe.

 Claimant's argument that the fact that the drawer he used provided sufficient security for ticket stock - and thus was safe for cash - is not persuasive. Ticket stock is not negotiable until validated by the appropriate stamp which is maintained in the safe.

 The instructions issued to ticket sellers was not unreasonable under these circumstances. The Claimant chose to ignore those instructions for reasons of his own personal convenience. We find no basis for disturbing the discipline imposed.
                    Award Number 21111 Page 3

                    Docket Number CL~21033


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


        That the parties waived oral hearing;


That the Carrier and the Employee involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employer within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Hoard has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

        That the Agreement was not violated.


                    A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                          AATIQ1AL RAILROAD AWMTbM HOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


        ATTEST: Executive Secretary


        Dated at Chicago, I111nois, this 29th day of June 1976.