(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

 (1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned outside forces to clean right-of-way on the Holly Secondary at Altoona, Pennsylvania beginning September 26, 1983 (System Docket CR-582).

 (2) As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Machine Operator S. J. Kurchin shall be allowed pay at the Class 2 Machine Operator's rate, for an equal number of hours expended by outside forces in performing the work referred in Part (1) hereof beginning September 26, 1983."

 OPINION OF BOARD: This Board has been presented with a number of Claims
 involving the subcontracting of Maintenance of Way work to
 outside forces. In reviewing and rendering Third Division Award No. 26314
 (with Dissent by Carrier Members), we explained in detail the Board's position
 on use of outside forces. The rationale that applied to that case shall also
 be applied in this instance. We see no reason to repeat our presentation from
 Third Division Award 26314. We will apply the same concept of 50 percent
 liability for furloughed claimants in this case as we did in Third Division
 Award No. 26314.

 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 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

                        Docket Number MW-26297

                        A W A R D


        Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


Attest:
        ancy J. D v - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 9th day of September 1987.