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

1996-07-23Executive Order 13012
Signed by: William J. Clinton
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Headline: Establishes Emergency Board to Investigate Transit Labor Dispute

What it does: An emergency board must investigate the dispute and report to the President within 30 days.

Real World Impact:
  • Creates a three-member emergency board to investigate the labor dispute.
  • Bars either side from changing dispute-related working conditions for 120 days.
  • Requires the board to submit a report to the President within 30 days.
Topics: labor dispute, public transit, government investigation, workplace rules

Summary

This order establishes an emergency three-member board to investigate a dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

The board must report to the President within 30 days, and from its creation no party may change the conditions out of which the dispute arose for 120 days unless both sides agree.

When the board ends, its records will be maintained in the custody of the National Mediation Board.

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