Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 27141
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. TD-26002
88-3-84-3-551
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Rodney E. Dennis when award was rendered.
(American Train Dispatchers Association
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Request that the personnel record of Mr. G. C. Hartley,
which has been assessed with ten days (10) suspension, held
in abeyance, per Notice of Discipline dated April 11, 1984, be entirely rescinded and removed and th
all expenses incurred involving hearing/investigation held on Tuesday, April
3, 1984."
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board upon the whole record and
all the evidence, finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employe or employees involved in this
dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the
Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.
This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the
dispute involved herein.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
Claimant was employed by Carrier as a Train Dispatcher at Gibson,
Indiana. On March 19, 1984, Claimant was alleged to have been responsible for
unnecessarily delaying a train for two hours during which the Hours of Service
Act caught the crew and a new crew had to be called to move the train over the
Indiana Belt tracks to the ICG property. For this alleged infraction, Claimant was assessed a 10-day
The Board has reviewed the record and can find no basis on which to
modify or overturn Carrier's actions in this case.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
Form 1 Award No. 27141
Page 2 Docket No. TD-26002
88-3-84-3-551
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
Nancy J. -Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 23rd day of June 1988.