Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 27488
 THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MS-27016
 88-3-86-3-201
 The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
 addition Referee Herbert L. Marx, Jr. when award was rendered.

 (R. E. Hanson PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

 "1. The Burlington Northern admittedly violated our Collective Bargaining Agreement by hiring an outside contractor to perform work (fencing) which has historically belonged to the Maintenance of Way Employees.

 2. The claimant (R. E. Hanson) be awarded group 2 pay from April 7, 1985 until May 31, 1985, the time outside contractor performed claimants work."

 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 employes 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.

On March 28, 1986, the Claimant gave notice to the Board of his intention to submit a dispute concerning contracted-out work which allegedly "historically belonged to the Maintenance of Way Employees." On March 2, 1987, however, the Claimant signed a form entitled "Release of All Claims" which released and discharged the Carrier "from all claims and liabilities of every kind or nature." This release was made in connection with a monetary settlement to the Claimant.

 Under these circumstances, the claim herein is moot, and the Board need not review its merits and the response of the Carrier thereto.


Form 1 Award No. 27488
 Page 2 Docket No. MS-27016
 88-3-86-3-201
 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
 By Order of Third Division

 Attest:

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 22nd day of September 1988.