SSW File 53-312-15


              SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 280


PARTIES) Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees

 TO ) and

 DISPUTE) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

 1. The Carrier violated the Agreement between the Carrier and the Organization when it required the men listed in Attachment "A" attached hereto and made a part of; namely, Machine Operator H. D. Cooper, housed in camp trailer, to begin and end his duties preceding or following and continuous with a regularly assigned eight (8) hour work period.

 2. The Carrier shall be required to pay Machine Operator H. D. Cooper at the overtime rate for time preceding the regularly assigned eight (8) hour period and time following the regularly assigned eight (8) hour period on the dates involved as tabulated in Attachment "A".

 This claim is for April 1968 and is a continuing claim and will be supplemented from month to month until our Agreement is complied with.

 FINDINGS:

 The issue to be determined in this dispute is identical to that in our Award No. 88 and the Board is governed accordingly.

 AWARD: Claim denied.

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              / Nfch olas H. Zumas, Nepitral Member


M. L. Erwin, Carrier ?:lamer . 'Vh ing am, mployee Member

 Tyler, Texas
 October 30, 1975