Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 27157
 THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MS-27423
 88-3-86-3-620
 The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
 addition Referee Charlotte Gold when award was rendered.

 (James McCraney and David E. Salvino PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "James McCraney was discriminated against when the Carrier
 (Burlington Northern Railroad) administered grave difference in discipline between Mr. McCraney F. Avalos under the same circumstances of improper filing of labor distribution."

 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.

The facts of this case are on all fours with those in Third Division Award 27155. As we noted there, this Division lacks jurisdiction because of a major procedural defect in the filing of the claim, to wit, the failure of Claimant to comply with the time limit provisions of the Agreement. As in that instance, the case must be dismissed.




                          By Order of Third Division


Attes~/:
      Nancy J. er - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 23rd day of June 1988.