In the Matter of the

REPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYEES

of

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION

Telephone Maintainers

26 NMB No. 64

CASE NO. R-6685

(File No. CR-6654)

DISMISSAL-

WITHDRAWN DURING

INVESTIGATION

June 29, 1999

The services of the National Mediation Board (NMB) were invoked by the Railway Communications Workers Union on March 25, 1999, to investigate and determine who may represent for the purposes of the Railway Labor Act, as provided by Section 2, Ninth, thereof, personnel described as "Telephone Maintainers," employees of the Norfolk Southern Corporation.

At the time this application was received, these employees were represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The Board assigned Investigator Sean J. Rogers to investigate.

Subsequently, Mr. Carl H. Tickle, Sr., President, Railway Communications Workers Union, filed a letter with the NMB which stated, "It is our Request to withdraw our petition for representation on behalf of the Communications Workers on the Norfolk Southern Railway."

On the basis of this letter of withdrawal referred to above, the application is converted to NMB Case No. R-6685 and dismissed.

By direction of the NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD.

Stephen E. Crable

Chief of Staff