Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Its Conductors Represented by the United Transportation Union
Headline: Establishes Emergency Board to Investigate Transit Authority Conductors' Dispute
What it does: The order directs the President to appoint a three-member emergency board to investigate and report on the transit conductors' dispute.
- Creates a temporary three-member board to investigate the labor dispute.
- Requires final settlement offers from both sides within 30 days.
- Prohibits changes to the disputed working conditions until 60 days after report.
Summary
This order creates a three-member emergency board, effective August 10, 2004, to investigate a labor dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its conductors represented by the United Transportation Union. A prior board issued a report but its recommendations were not accepted, and a party requested a second board under the Railway Labor Act.
The order requires the parties to submit final offers within 30 days and directs the board to pick the most reasonable offer within 30 days after that, while barring changes to the disputed conditions until 60 days after the report.
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