Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Metro-North Railroad and Its Maintenance of Way Employees Represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Creates Emergency Board to Investigate Metro-North Labor Dispute
What it does
The order directs the President to appoint a three-member emergency board to investigate the dispute and report the most reasonable settlement offer.
Real-world impact
- Union and railroad must submit final settlement offers within 30 days.
- Parties cannot change working conditions until 60 days after the board report.
- A federal board will investigate and select the most reasonable offer.
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Summary
This order creates a three-member emergency board to investigate a labor dispute between Metro-North Railroad and maintenance workers represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The board will receive final settlement offers from the parties and report which offer it finds most reasonable.
The railroad and the union must submit final offers within 30 days, and the board must report after reviewing those offers. Parties are barred from changing the disputed working conditions until 60 days after the board's report, and the board's records will be kept by the National Mediation Board.
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