Parties Brotherhood of Maintenance of way Employees
 to and
 uispute aouthern Pacific Transportation Company
 -Texas and Louisiana Lines
 Statement 1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement when it unfairly and without
 of just cause suspended Extra Gang Laborer James Jackson, from October 2U,
 Claim: 1976 until November 8, 1976.

Findings: The Board finds, after hearing upon the whole record and all evidence,
 that the parties herein are Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the
 Railway Labor Act, as amended, that this Board is duly constituted by
 Agreement dated Marcn 23, 1977, that it has jurisdiction of the parties
 and the subject matter, and that the parties were given due notice of the
 hearing held.
 Claimant, a Laborer on the San Antonio Division, was suspended from service
 by his Division Engineer for 19 days, October 2U to November 8, 1976, for
 leaving his job with Extra Gang No. 403 on October 19, 1976 about 11:00 a.m.
 The investigation, which Claimant requested, was held on November 4, 1976,
 did not cause any change in the discipline imposed. Rule M-810, which
 claimant violated, in pertinent part reads:
 "Employees must report for duty at the prescribed time and place, remain
 at their post of duty and devote themselves exclusively to their duties
 during their tour of duty. They must not absent themselves, from their






          The record, despite conflicting testimony provides support for Carrier's conclusion. It was not error for carrier, as the trier of facts, to resolve the conflicts in testimony. Carrier quite properly determined that the testimony given by its witnesses, which was to the effect that Claimant had left the property without authority, was the more credible testimony.


          the board finds that the discipline imposed was in the circumstances not unreasonable. This Claim will be denied.


Award: Claim denied.

          A. .(//Cpnninghaomployee Member K. W. Hickman, Carrier Member


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                          rtnur T. an Wart, Chairman and Neutral Member


                Issued at Houston, Texas, May 8, 1978.