Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28242
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27951
90-3-87-3-488
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee W. F. Euker when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Alton and Southern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The dismissal of Trackman F. C. Mitchell for alleged violation
of Rules 600, 607(2), 607(3), 607(6) and 608 was unwarranted and unreasonable
and in violation of the Agreement (Carrier's File 860046).
(2) The claimant shall be reinstated with seniority and all other
rights unimpaired, his record cleared of the charges leveled against him and
he shall be compensated for all wage loss suffered."
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.
Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
This dispute concerns the dismissal of a short-tenured employee who
was charged and found guilty of failing to efficiently perform his assigned
duties as a Trackman, coupled with his repetitive failure to comply with his
Supervisor's instructions, all of which were allegedly in violation of certain
identified Carrier General Rules. Following a formal Investigation held on
July 24, 1986, premised on the charges outlined above, Claimant -was advised he
was dismissed from the service effective July 25, 1986. Claim was appealed in
the usual manner on the property and is now ripe for our determination.
The trial record and accompanying exhibits reflect an on-going problem which Claimant appeared t
his Superiors. The record does not indicate the specific times and dates each
of these corrective instructions were issued, a failure the organization felt
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was critical; however, it does establish beyond cavil that Claimant was repeatedly told orally and i
success. Finally in a letter dated June 17, 1986, Carrier allegedly reached
the limit of its patience, and informed Claimant: "This type of work performance and non-compliance
1986, he was charged with the violations now under consideration.
Based on the facts described above and others we have considered in
our review of the files, we cannot find the Carrier's decision in this case to
be palpably erroneous or without foundation in reason or fact and we must deny
the Claim.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attes0000,
t
cy J. a -Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day of February 1990.