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PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION

Award No. 34018
Docket No. MW-31573
00-3-93-3-578

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

(Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company
( (former St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Company)

"Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier assigned or







(2) As a consequence of the violation referred to in Part (1) above,




FINDINGS:

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

herein.

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.


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Award No. 34018
Docket No. MW-31573
00-3-93-3-578

Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

This case involves a claim by the Organization that the Carrier violated Rule 62(m) of the Agreement by assigning Track Gang 445 to perform track patrol work on the territory of Track Gang 442 on the latter Gang's rest days. The claim is identical in all respects, except for dates of the alleged violations, to claims raised before the Board in Third Division Awards 31136, 31670 and 31677. Each involves the same Claimants, gangs, issues, arguments and Agreements.


We therefore find no basis in the record to deviate from the Board's prior Awards. Accordingly, we find that for the reasons stated in those Awards, the Organization failed to meet its burden of proving that the actions of the Carrier are prohibited by the Agreement.


AWARD

Claim denied.

ORDER

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 April, 2000.