Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 31963
Docket No. CL-32487
97-3-95-3-392

The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee James E. Yost when award was rendered.

(Transportation Communications International Union PARTIES TO DISP TT .:


STATEMENT OF . .AIA1:





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.
Form 1 Award No. 31963
Page 2 Docket No. CL-32487
97-3-95-3-392

This Division of the :Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.



The Board as a whole finds that the facts and arguments presented in this dispute are not distinguishable from those presented in Third Division Award 31962. For the reasons set forth in that Award, this claim will be denied.







This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimant(s) not be made.

                      NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                      By Order of Third Division


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of March 1997.