PARTIES ) BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYES
TO )
DISPUTE ) SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO.- (EASTERN LINES)

STATEMENT CLAIM;


        "Claim on behalf of System Laborer-Driver C. V. Gonzales for 176 hours at his straight time rate of pay in addition to his record being cleared of the charge" (MW-85=145)


FINDINGS:

The Board, after hearing upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that the parties herein are carrier and Employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; this Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and; the parties were given due notice of hearing thereon.


The record showing that Claimant had readily admittedly to having been in violation of Rule G of the General Rules and Regulations of the Carrier, and voluntarily having entered into Carrier's Employee Assistance Program, the Board has no basis to hold that discipline as administered was unreasonable.


AWARD:

Claim denied.

Robert E. Peterson, Cha rman

and Neutral Member


    C Q. CXid44

    C. B. G ne M. A. Christie

    Carrier a ber organization Member


Houston, TX
August 29, 1986

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