PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 TO
 DISPUTE: and

                Seaboard System Railroad (former L&N Railroad)


STATEMENT -"Claim that-Extra Gang 154, headquartered at
 OF
 CLAIM: Walton,_Kentucky be furnishedhand cleaner and
 paper towels and a tool house be built for em
 ployees to meet."
 FINDINGS: Extra Gang 154, established on April 4, 1984,
 was a stationary gang with Walton, Kentucky, its
 designated assembly point at the beginning and
 ending of each work day. Its mission was to re
 habilitate the main line and sidings in and
 around the Walton area.
 On August 31, 1984, the timbering portion of
 Extra Gang 154 was abolished. The surfacing portion of the Gang
 thereafter remained in operation until July 5, 1985, when it too
 was discontinued.
 While the Gang was still in existence, Carrier
 complied with the request for paper towels and hand cleaner. It
 declined, however, "to build a tool house or some other assembly
 point at Walton" for the Gang, as petitioner demanded.
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                      Rule 32(a), cited by Petitioner, reads as -


follows:

                "Employes' time will start and end at established headquarters such as tool houses, camp cars, carpenter shops, etc., to be designated by the management. This does not contemplate the assignment of temporary headquarters for the purpose of reducing travel time to and from the established head-

., quarters."

 It was not consistent with the language just
 quoted to have Extra Gang 154 meet at .a headquarters point located
 at a telephone booth or other unsheltered site. The employees in
 the Gang were plainly entitled to a headquarters "such as tool
 houses, camp cars, carpenter shops, etc." The .quoted phrase mani
 festly refers to a structure sufficient to provide shelter. Nothing
 in Carrier's submissions provides a cogent argument to the contrary.
 . Carrier's contention that this Board lacks auth
 ity to issue a sustaining award in this situation is unpersuasive.
 Rule 32(a) was breached. Carrier is not required to const;uqt a
 shelter; it is sufficient if some structure is provided as a head- -
 quarters shelter.
 AWARD: Claim sustained to-the-extent indicated supra in
 Findings. To be effective within 30 days.
 Adopted at Jacksonville, Florida,. /q) 1985.
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            HaroLd,~. Westoh, Chairman


Carrier Member Employee -ember