PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

ST.4T_--r7T OF CLAI.'d: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood
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(a) Carrier violated the Agreement at Charlotte, ,worth Carolina, :Then it dismissed exH. 1':. vandle, Clerk at Air Line .unction, -'TOrth Carolina from the service of t^e Carrier for allegedly lea'iing h_a assignment as p.=1., t:pril ic~, 1970 without permission or aut.,orilv.

 (b) Carrier she',--, be required to compensate ?r. ri. __. °andle for all time lost includin_any overtime he may have stood for, at to rate of his assierment, beginning April 210, 1975, and continuinr_ until he is restored to the service of the Carrier with seniority and all ri __his uzimpai=·ed.

 O_I7UC?I OF BGARD: Claimant was dismissed from service for leaving
 his assignment without permission or authority.
 This occurred shortly after the start of tae ;cork assignment.
 Claima.at, at the time and later, :.ad no acceptable explanation for
 his sudden urexcused departure.

        A full, fair and impartial investigative hearing was

can ducted by the Carrier. mot: =n_ in t^e testimony develo_ced at t:e
 -earin g nor __. t.-,e factual baC_C;rol='ld _Vez rise to 2.:.y reason for
 this Board t7 question the Carrier nS disciplinary action .

        ....~=_e .:e venally inv`.A,3 . ?.s J=' the most severe _.atur -_= e

Carrier pro7erl;;r' considered past similar offenses in I.._ Clai_ast'z
 ..C: = record inuidi: _ its '~.is:-issa_ action.
                    Award ?dumb°r 21920 Page 2

                    Docket :n:fber CL-21920


,T'?DIlTGS: 'The Third Division of to Adjustment Board, after givi^-
 t'-a parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereor, and upon the -whole record and all the evidence, finds a-:d holds

          That the Carrier and the 4 ployes _voived in this dispute

are respectively Carrier and F~ployes ;within the meaninof the tail7ay
 Labcr Act, as approved June 21, late;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdict._mover the dispute involved '..^.erein;
          That the A-areement :-Tas not violated.


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          Claim denied.


                        YATIGi·AL RAILRCAD ADJUST:--T T~ BC4RD

                        3y Order o= Third Division


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          _cecutive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of Februaz^f 1978.

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