PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

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

 1. The Agreement was violated when the Carrier permitted Extra Gang Laborer J. J. Kramer to displace Extra Gang Laborer D. A. Nivison on the B-1 Ballast Gang and retained junior employes on the B-1 Ballast Gang while Mr. Nivison was required to become furloughed (System File 8(a) 4(h) R-1/800-46B-179).

 2. As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Mr. D. A. Nivison shall be compensated for all wage loss suffered from October 10 through October 20, 1983, both dates inclusive."

 OPINION OF BOARD: As in Third Division Award 26578 involving the same Carrier
 and Organization, this dispute deals with the question of
 whether Carrier has correctly allowed seniority displacement on extra gangs.
 In that case, the Board held that Schedule Rule 4(h), the Rule that allows
 employes the right to displacement by seniority, does not distinguish between
 Rail Gangs and Ballast Gangs and "is therefore not specific with respect to
 displacement between such rosters." The Board further concluded that there
 was no probative evidence that displacement between rosters ever occurred.

 The Board finds Third Division Award 26578 to be on all fours with the current case and sees no basis in the record for making a contrary determination.



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-26192

                      A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


Attest:

      Nancy J. Deter - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 11th day of December 1987.