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NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
Award No. 34068
Docket No. CL-34967
00-3-98-3-658

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

PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

(Transportation Communications International Union

(National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)

"Claim of the System Committee of the Organization (GL-12156) that:

Claim (AM-965) in behalf of Clerk Freddiree Scott:



Claimant was in bump status, has the fitness and ability to perform the job and should have been allotted thirty days in which to qualify as provided by the Agreement.



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Award No. 34068
Docket No. CL-34967
00-3-98-3-658

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.



This is a companion case to Third Division Award 34067. For the reasons set forth in those findings, this claim is denied.

AWARD

Claim denied.

ORDER

This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that an Award favorable to the Claimants) not be made.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of May, 2000.