Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Its Locomotive Engineers Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

2006-07-07Executive Order 13409
Signed by: George W. Bush
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Headline: Establishes Emergency Board to Investigate Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Dispute

What it does: The order directs the President to appoint a three-member emergency board to investigate the dispute and report within 30 days.

Real World Impact:
  • Creates a three-member board to investigate the labor dispute.
  • Requires a report to the President within 30 days.
  • Freezes changes to dispute-related working conditions for 120 days.
Topics: labor relations, public transit, federal mediation, workplace dispute

Summary

This order creates an independent three-member emergency board to look into a labor dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its locomotive engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

The board must begin at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on July 8, 2006, report to the President within 30 days, and its records will be kept by the National Mediation Board after it ends.

While the board operates, neither side may change the conditions that caused the dispute for 120 days without agreement, keeping negotiations and services stable.

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