Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 32519
Docket No. MW-31604
98-3-93-3-612

The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee Martin F. Scheinman when award was rendered.

(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE :
(National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM :














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2. time and one half at the MW Repairman rate
for 1/2 hour per day for each day since July 28,
1992 in which such NtW Repairmen rode to
and from the worksite to and from the camp
cars and motels as passengers in which such
Repairmen were not paid one half hour per day
of travel time."'

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.




Except for factual differences pertaining to the specifics of the claim brought by the Organization, this dispute involves the identical question and identical issues decided by the Board in Third Division Award 32518. Given our decision in that case, we see no basis and no need for addressing the specific facts contained herein. Accordingly, the claim presented herein is dismissed.





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



                      Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of March 1998.