PARTIES TO DISPULE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claims of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
 Railroad Signalmen on the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company on behalf of the following employees for the difference in price between a single room and one-half the price of a double rote:

W. L. Pratt, Jr., D. B. Fulton, D. R. Merrill and W. T. Dee, $7.14 each for the nights of July 5 sad 6, 1978.

J. H. Clark, $60.52; H. T. Thatcher, $65.84; R. D. Gatewood, $49.97, for the month of July 1978.

R. H. Whittenbora and W. A. Busker, $16.98 each for the nights of September 4, 5 and 6, 1979.

B. L. Burgin and V, F. Smith, $101.88 each, for the nights of August 1 through 8 and August 15 through 24, 1979.















                      Docket Number SG-24038


OPINION OF BOARD: This claim seeks reimbursement for the cost of a siagle-
 occupancy hotel rote when the Employee are required to work away from their headquarters.

 The Rule in question specifies that the Employee will be allowed actual necessary expenses when away from headquarters if meals and lodgings are not provided by the railroad.

 At page 5 of its submission to the Board, the Organization states that it had no reason to doubt the asserted past practice that Employes shared rooms on a voluntary basis.

 Regardless of our own particular predelictions concerning the sharing of a hotel room, we are faced with a Rule speaking in terms of necessary expenses and nothing has been presented to us which would warrant our finding a "necessity" for individual rooms. We feel that this is the type of circumstance that should be properly handled through negotiations rather than in the Arbitration process. We are unable to interpret the Agreement in the manner suggested by the Organizatb n. In addition, we find that the Third Division Award No. 20619 is particularly material to this dispute and for all the reasons stated above we will deny the claim.

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


        That the pasties waived oral hearing;


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

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

        That the Agreement was not violated.


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                            NATB)NAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOM

                            By Order of Third Division


          Attest: Acting Executive Secretary oral Railroad Adjustment Board


BY _.

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        os&mn is Brasch - Administrative Assistant


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of January 1983.