Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 30405
Docket No. CL-30660
94-3-92-3-445

The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.

(Transportation-Communications International ( Union PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (CSX Transportation, Inc. (former ( Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:









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FINDINGS:

The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:


The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employee 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.


The Organization argues that the three claims in this Docket are payable as presented, because Carrier did not issue a timely denial at the initial step. The record is conclusive that the Local Chairman did not receive a denial within 60 days of the date the claims were filed, as required by Rule 27 1/2 of the Agreement. Carrier's argument and evidence that a timely denial was made is not persuasive. Under the explicit provisions of Rule 27 1/2, the claims must be allowed as presented.





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This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimant(s) be made. The Carrier is ordered to make the Award effective on or before 30 days following the postmark date the Award is transmitted to the parties.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By order of Third Division


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 8th day of August 1994.