STA'fEiR'P'T Or CLAIM: Claim of Detro_t Local Chairman W. F. Pochih, for reinscacemenc co service with pay for all tire lost, his seniority, vacation, and all ocher rights restored and the record corrected, dun to his unjuat dismis-al on June 1, 1981.

 FINDINGS: This Public Law Board No. 912 finds that the parties Liar-in are Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and that this Board has jurisdiction.

 .In this dispute the claimant was char'ed with being insubordinate to superintendent M. P. Anglen, being insubordinate toward ass'-s:..;-_ traimzaster W. M. Banta, unbecoming conduct, making false sta'amen:S and using unbecoming l aneuage in convercacion wich Hs. A. L. Colem.a,^. Norfolk and Uestern patrolwoman, and unbecoming conduct bet::eea 9: a.:-. and 10:12 a.m. on June 4, .1981.when he appeared at the 1lorfolk and Westarn Building in a T-shirt ddpicting Pafgedy Ann and Andy en Ada,^,ed in sexual intercourse.

 Aasis tent superintendent r i. E. Moth was conducting an investigation on June 2, 1981, and tae claimant was appearing as local chairman, representing the charged employee. At approximately 10:55 a.m. on that dF.tc the hea_ing o_ficer recessed the formal investigation and during the recess noticed chat the claimant was in the hallway p:ayinS hack a recording device with ocher crew members liscenino. Fe rczognized the re=crding as part of the investigation which was bee: c0M:ucted.

 At 11:05 a.m. the recess ended, and as the claimant was walking intc the hearing room, 2L. Kloth advised lira that tae use of his nersona_ Cane recorder would not be allowed. The clai-ant was requescad co remove tae recorder from the room and was -.:st=uc=ed to turn it o`_ ant! remove ie, but the claimant did not do so. Thereupon c::= ::C:__: officer again receszod the invectipacion and went to su?erincende nz: M. P. AnUlen's'ofEice .a-d advised him o: what had occurred.

 At 11:25 a.m. the claimant returned, and superintendent Anglen ret
 the claimant in the doorway and told him that he would not be alit::
 to eape record t::a proceedings. At 11:29 a.m. the hearing was re
 convened, and' ehe hear:.^.g officer asked the claizant he was ;,o::
 reildy to procCCd without the CC-)C recorder, and when advised :.'.C.C
 tire c:air:,:ne would .n oc do so, trte hearing ef_izer =e,vesz'ed sec=_=
 O:fiC~- ::-~-: tO --...^.':- _~^. :t.:.!·:a-C and h13 C,'.·.a recorder from ~.:.
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 pro,^.c--ty and recessed thx investigation. Captain Miller veq·cested tae claii::ant to 1=3:·e tile prop=rty an;! was told by the cl airmanc he would have to t'Arow hill O4J: tile, llroperty.

Cupcrintondene Analen have the claimant a direct order to leave t1,; r:rotpe_·_,t, ant! tile al=imant refused. The Detroit Police were ca11·_u, .::1[1 n11OVCly C1:ereau'ter the claimant left the property.


Tito transc-int herein contains 477 pages o!: tcscimony. Tile Carrier :xd t11·= O.-ganitacion have both filed extencivc briers is support o: their positions.


.The conduct of the claimant her'ei'n cannot be cordoned nor can is be justified. 'i1:e claivaat is obviously a poor representative of hi.:

re::iloyees and should not be allowed to ace in t::e capacity of local cu.:i_::lan. Wearing the T-shirt that he was '.rearing was crude and

of::ensive and certainly not conducive to good relation between the Car_ie:- and the orffani ration.


I:yso, as local chairman the clad=ant should have hnoern how to pro-

; re:,s a grievance reCar3ill;; the use of a tape recorder in a·^. i::vcsCi.Ll2tioa. Certainly tile course of conduct which the claisa:a.^.L e=eS

ia2~.^.i:: was not the nropcr r..ataod to 'air e::at Cr·.wcnce. ,

 .isvcrtucles. the fact W .lilan.. that t, ci__crart t:,... pr_ _a,. :,.%a c6:·
 :.a,, in 'the ca~t_i.y ^ .
ai4ile actin;; in that capacity the claimant is :lot subject .o uis~:~

line 5y the Carrier. 'i:he only recourse which tile Carrier ::~·! v:1c::V zil'_ c1L:i:r:ant acted ill tae manner herein is to have hi;ii relno-:ac: i_oLl tl:e property.


Tae evidence establishes that the claimant is ^,uilty of all tiv~ o=
r. c::a_ ~Ctf V r..- . ~ 2i:u:1:... to . -
 ;jl:it ZDC 3::bjP.CWtO diFLGltSlinC %,A-an he is JISi:CarlnL^, 1n t'
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e:: local cilair:.'lan. He ia~ not only the local ,, eaaiz~.an wi-an he is _.
 the hC.:::.ng 1'CO.^., but 'Ila also :C:aains the local Ci:BiYa:ea ;JilC.^. hz
 ::taps outside the nearing roo_'1 mad is cc:.ier_i:.C t:it:l e~:uloyee::,
 t:1:0 3rC tilt:lCSSCS.

 ~ai~ is rot to say .th;a a local cllairr;[az ·T.ay come on the: grope: t'r ~.^.'_'
 ec::ce.^.V that ·JCC3'30C he i;: local cllaiizlaa lie i:, not subject co ,i_s-
 c:niiae red coot=of Ly tl:= Carrie-. Such woes l:ut :oll_o:r. L.o::avc_, i:ae ;aai:lane; l:crcin t::.s _:117e3Ci=a ..t -Az% 1^YCCClV :1011 a.^. ,'. :eillcCc :wtiw:: Oz a:z e~:uulcyce.

 This 1.o...:d does no: condone the co.-.c;.". o- t,.- c _Zr_,t, and ..,
 01: these occurrences L::.d Occurred ;;L;ea he ;:a~ :,ac act:..^_' is the
 C,'·.~.=LCJ o- l' Cllail'i,l:.:., wile, 'u'JarCi :)O:a~[i t3C:1y Cho, C1Gi~l. i:0`.':vC=,
 t1V.4[iW 1.1: r r-:..·i..V..luNs- the 'CLIV.-~- W: 1141 iCW.. .-tinz-cate ·lC
 C~.di ·01. ~ii'1W ~Wi·1j~J~-y; Yui[I lli- 1:W --r Vsl ,r:;~LyV- i1-yy ^-J--.Vr
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                        ' Pago


atel`Ce~rw1, a?11 atoniec that the cln1:..:nt hzz collected from. L:nD:.`.t)ley
 a·la:::t or ::ny other 1»C:anC, except outzi!!e C:1rn~rv~f-, vill be dcd~ctc-t

 a
 irom the mlzunt pal..~a to the c1a1.Um"It.

 if the Lo=rd hssd any authority to do to, Che elui_:-nt :could be reinStated witi:nut pay lo: time lost, flat thG- 1JLxl; L? L7und by tile »;~.'CC:·:C:::C oc-ucar: tile paartics'and lc-al juaatire. ~~it~ :i~: C.lal!11 ELIttai71Cd *as* LC=-.2bove.

 ~5;~):;R : The Carrier is di-:acted to emnnly o;ith tis nuard Within. sasr7.y tea; c rroLa th a date of this .,mjard.

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                                  Yresten J . Woore, Chaimnan


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      St. Louis, Missouri June 30, 1982


      Reinstated with pay