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The registerExecutive Order 12925
E.O.12925

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Soo Line Railroad Company and Certain of Its Employees Represented by the United Transportation Union

Signed August 29, 1994·William J. Clinton·59 FR 45181

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Establishes a three-member Emergency Board, under the Railway Labor Act, to investigate a labor dispute between the Soo Line Railroad Company and employees represented by the United Transportation Union. Board members must have no financial or other interest in any railroad carrier or railroad labor organization. The Board must report to the President within 30 days of its creation. From the Board's creation until 30 days after it submits its report, neither party may change the conditions that gave rise to the dispute, except by mutual agreement. The Board's records are treated as records of the Office of the President and will be kept by the National Mediation Board once the Board ends. The Board terminates upon submitting its report.

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by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 10 of the Act, it is hereby ordered

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Executive Order 12925 of August 29, 1994

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a
Dispute Between the Soo Line Railroad Company and
Certain of its Employees Represented by the United
Transportation Union

A dispute exists between the Soo Line Railroad Company
and certain of its employees represented by the United
Transportation Union.

The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the
provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45
U.S.C. 151-188) (the “Act”).

In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, this
dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate
commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of
the country of essential transportation service.

NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as
President by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, including section 10 of the Act, it is
hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board
(“Board”). There is established, effective August 29,
1994, a Board of three members to be appointed by the
President to investigate this dispute. No member shall
be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any
organization of railroad employees or any railroad
carrier. The Board shall perform its functions subject
to the availability of funds.

Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President
with respect to the dispute within 30 days of its
creation.

Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section
10 of the Act, from the date of the creation of the
Board and for 30 days after the Board has submitted its
report to the President, no change in the conditions
out of which the dispute arose shall be made by the
parties to the controversy, except by agreement of the
parties.

Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of
the Board are records of the Office of the President
and upon the Board's termination shall be maintained in
the physical custody of the National Mediation Board.

Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the
submission of the report provided for in sections 2 and
3 of this order.

    (Presidential Sig.)>

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    August 29, 1994.

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