Establishing a Second Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between New Jersey Transit Rail Operations and Its Locomotive Engineers Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
Establishes Second Emergency Board for New Jersey Transit Dispute
What it does
The order directs the President to appoint a three-member emergency board to investigate the New Jersey Transit dispute and report the most reasonable offer.
Real-world impact
- Requires union and operator to submit final settlement offers within 30 days.
- Bars changes to disputed working conditions until 60 days after report.
- Creates a temporary, presidentially appointed three-member board to decide the dispute.
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Summary
This order creates a second three-member emergency board to investigate a labor dispute between New Jersey Transit and its locomotive engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
The President will appoint the board effective 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on November 22, 2024. Parties must submit final settlement offers within 30 days, and the board must report which offer it selects within 30 days.
Neither side may change 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 when it ends.
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