MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY


STATEMENT
 OF CLAIM: Claim of the Committee that:

            1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement when Trackmen Clifford E. Williams, Allen L. Nash, and Frederick C. Lincoln were unjustly dismissed by letters dated January 9, 1979.


            2. Claimants Williams, Nash, and Lincoln shall

            be paid for eight hours each work day and

            holiday, at the straight time rate of pay for

            trackmen, to begin on January 9, 1979, and to

            continue until such time as they are returned

            to work with seniority rights and vacation

            privileges restored, unimpaired.


FINDINGS: Evidence was adduced at theinvestigation
 to sustain the charges against the claimants
 and the offenses are generally considered to
 be proper cause for dismissal regardless of
 one's length of service or prior record.
 AWARD: Claim denied.

            SPECI(L BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 279


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M. .A Ch-rfstie - Employe Member L. C. Brown - Carrier Member

 Dallas, Texas
 September 19, 1980
 File 247-5763