P:LRTIi3 irotherhood of Maintenance of _ay _wployas
 TD
 :;I3i=CTS the dtchison, ropeka and Santa e'e .railway :.ompany
 STAT=ni~:,T ~Clais that former Middle Division fraekman Y, T. Luna
 CF .3<1IM be reinstated to service with seniority, vacation.
 all benefit rights unimpaired and paid for wage loss
 beginning ?ebruary 24, 1982, account the claimant
 was unjustly removed from service for accumulation
 of excessive demerits."
 F'I`:ur:G ; Upon the whole record, the ::;card finds that the parties
 herein are Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the aailway
 Labor act, as amended, and that this Zoard is duly constituted under
 Public Lav 89-456 and has jurisdiction of the parties and the subject
 matter.
 Claimant. a Trackman on Carrier°s Middle Division, was permanently removed from service on February 24, 1982. pie was dismissed for accumulation of excessive demerits under Carrier's Rule 31-H that provides 'A balance of 60 demerits subJecis an employs to di.s=issai.' The above cited mule 31 is commonly referred to as "."he Srora S1sta= of Discipline." The 3aard haw reviewed the record which clearly shore that Claimant had accumulated sixty (60) demerits.
 Various Divisions of the National Railroad Adjustment Board have ruled that dismissal based an tbia System may be upheld.


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Therefore, .`.his claim must be denied.

 :~.~.1=;;~ Claim denied.

                                  Clarence Ei. ,:err' .a on Neutral Member


      Carrier Member Organization.Member


Dated at Chicago
 February 22, 1983