PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 TO
 DISPUTE: and
 Seaboard_System Railroad (former LRN Railroad)
 STATEMENT Claimant M. M. Armstead shall be reinstated with
 OF
 CLAIM: seniority and all otherrights unimpaired and com
 pensated for all wage loss suffered.
 FINDINGS: Claimant, a track repairman, was dismissed from Car
 rier's service for refusing to comply with orders
 to pull spikes from a track. The orders were un
 ambiguous and exposed him to no hazard. They were
 given to him directly by Foreman Howard and by Fore
 man Skipper, both of whom were competent to give
 them.
 When claimant was first instructed to pull spikes
 by Foreman Howard, he replied that that he wanted to distribute, not
 pull, spikes and that he was senior to other employees who were dis
 tributing spikes. Claimant then stated that he wished to go to the
 rest room. When he returned, Foreman Skipper instructed him to. pull
 spikes; claimant's response was that he did not feel well. Foreman
 Skipper then told him to go home and claimant declined to do so,
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whereupon Mr. Skipper again ordered him to pull spikes and claimant did not comply with the order.
 There is no sound reason why Carrier'-s supervisory force should have to put up with this sort of nonsense and attendant delays and aggravation.
 Discipline was clearly appropriate and in view of the flagrant nature of the offense and the fact that claimant had been suspended for-45 days in 1980 for failure to following a foreman`s instructions, we find no basis for concluding that Carrier's decision to dismiss claimant was arbitrary or excessive discipline.

 AWARD:

 Claim denied.

 Adopted at Jacksonville, Florida, January a81 1985.

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