PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employees
 DISPUTE: and
 CSX Transportation, Inc.
 STATEMENT 1. The disqualification and forfeiture of
 OF
 CLAIM: seniority above the rank of Trackman and the six
 months bidding restriction assessed Foreman
 L. J. Thompson, Jr. was without just cause.
 2. This seniority shall be restored, his record
 cleared and he shall be paid for all wage loss
 suffered and for all personal expense and travel
 time incurred as a result of the disqualification.
 FINDINGS: As Assistant Foreman, claimant was instructed to
 take the surfacing unit of his T & S Gang to
 smooth out defects between Mileposts 107 and 108
 and to place a 30 mile per hour slow order between
 those Mileposts beginning at 12:30 p.m. However,
 claimant did not place a slow order as instructed.
 He waited until 2:30 p.m. to place a slow order
 and then placed it between the 108.5 to 108
 Milepost, an area which he had not been called upon
 to surface.
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. violation of the second and third paragraphs of
                    ignore instructions and adopt a different course,

                    claimant subjected Carrier operations to confusion

                    and disruption, and to unnecessary hazards.


                    We will not substitute our judgment for that of Carrier in this sensitive area. The claim will be denied. it is noted that claimant had previously been suspended for 25 days for another Operating Rule 1119 violation.


        AWARD: Claim denied.


                    Adopted at Jacksonville, Florida, (hAr2!_1> ~~ , 1987.


                            G4' l ,'t i n

                    Harold Wes~Hairifian


        Carrier Member p oyee Member


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