PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: 'This is to serve notice, as required by the National
Railroad Adjustment Board, of Tom DeRossett's intention to file an exparte submission on February 10, 1982, covering an unadjusted dispute between Tom DeRossett and the C & O Railway Company to wit:

This is to Appeal the dismissal of Thomas DeRossett for being quarelesome (sic) and insubordinate when signing a Safe Job Procedure Log under protest.'

OPINION OF BOARD: Section 2 Second and 3 First (i) of the Railway Labor

Act, as amended and Circular No. 1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board require that disputes be considered in conference and, if possible, decided on the property before being submitted to this Board for consideration and decision. The instant claim was not progressed on the property in accordance with this required procedure and is therefore barred from consideration. The claim must be and is hereby dismissed.





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








                            By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Nancy J. De r - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 17th day of November, 1983.