Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Their Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Signed July 18, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 38051
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Establishes a three-member emergency board under the Railway Labor Act to investigate a labor dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Board members must have no financial or other interest in any railroad carrier or employee organization. The board must report to the President within 30 days of its creation. For 120 days following the board's creation, neither the carrier nor the employees may change the conditions that gave rise to the dispute, except by mutual agreement. The board's records are considered records of the Office of the President and will be kept by the National Mediation Board after the board dissolves. The board terminates automatically once it submits 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 9A of the Act, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13012 of July 18, 1996
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a
Dispute
Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority and Their Employees Represented by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A dispute exists between the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority and its employees represented
by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the
provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45
U.S.C. 151 et seq.)(the “Act”).
A party empowered by the Act has requested that the
President establish an emergency board pursuant to
section 9A of the Act (45 U.S.C. 159a).
Section 9A(c) of the Act provides that the President,
upon such request, shall appoint an emergency board to
investigate and report on the dispute.
NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as
President, by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, including Section 9A of the Act, it is
hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is
established effective July 19, 1996, 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 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
9A(c) of the Act, from the date of the creation of the
Board and for 120 days thereafter, no change, except by
agreement of the parties, shall be made by the carrier
or the employees in the conditions out of which the
dispute arose.
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
submission of the report provided for in section 2 of
this order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 18, 1996.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 18, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.