Edward L. Suntrup, Referee


(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
              (Southern Pacific Transportation Company (Western Lines)


STA-~Ei,=T OF CMALt: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
 Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation Company (S-lestern Lines):

        On behalf of Signal Maintainer B. R. Disrman, Beaumont, California, three hours at the overtime rate August 21, 1981, account other than signal forces disconnected the Lrack bond wire while changing a piece of rail." (Carrier file: SIG 152-422)


OPI:IT_0N OF BOARD: Claimant, Signal Maintainer B. R. Dishman, presented time
 claim on his second period August semi-monthly time roll for three (3) hours overtime rate for August 21, 1900 because "other than signal forces disconnected the track bond wire while changing a piece of rail". After Carrier denial of time claim by notice of Septemoer 15, 1500 the Orb ni'zation filed a grievance under Rule 60 of current Agreement between the parties
 o Novemner 19, 1980.
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 After a review of the record before it, it is the Board's determinination that Rule 60 (a) of the current AEreement was contravened by the Organization when it did not file grievance pertinent part, that all claims or grievances must be presented To Carrier within sixty (60) days from the date of the occurrence on which the claim or grievance is based. It is clear from the record before the Board that the November 19, 1980 filing date surpassed this contractually mandated time-limit, thus barring any decision on the merits of the instant case.

 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 ox' the :~ailway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has j,zrisdiction over the dispute involved :--rein; and
                    Award Number 24433 Page 2

                    Docket Number SG-24445


        That the cle.im is barred.


                      A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                            "ATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTT.T:T BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


:=ST: Acting Executive Secretary
 National Railroad Ad~,ustment Board

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By '-t r./ °~ Z.~ = ~:-!_ ~'-i---l .~`_.-i
 _ Rosemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant
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 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th day of June 1933.