PARTIE S Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 TO
 DISPUTE : and
 Consolidated Rail Corporation
 STATEMENT Claim by Trackman Anthony Tuchalski for rein
 OF
 CLAIM : statement and reimbursement for all loss of pay
 resulting from his dismissal on August 18, 1975.
 FINDINGS : Claimant, an employee with two years service,
 was dismissed for walking off his job, refusal
 to perform assigned work and excessive absent
 eeism.
 Foreman Gomez testified that on July 22, 1975,
 he told claimant to put on plates and claimant refused to do so.
 According to Gomez, claimant replied, "I'm walking off. I'm not
 going to put on any plates."
 It appears that putting on plates is a normal part of claimant's gang's work. The record does not establish that claimant was singled out for unfair treatment or that he had a valid excuse for refusing to comply with an unambiguous work order. Nor was there any satisfactory explanation offered for his eight absences in July and August 1975; he had been disciplined on two earlier occasions for absenteeism.

We find no basis on this record for substituting our judgment for that of claimant in this matter.

 AWARD: Claim denied.



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