Executive Order 12646 --
Establishment of Emergency Board No. 215 To
Investigate a Railroad Labor Dispute
Establishing
an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between
the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation and Certain of its Employees
Represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
A
dispute exists between the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation and certain
of its employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
The
dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway
Labor Act, as amended (the ``Act'').
Parties
empowered by the Act have requested that the President establish an emergency
board pursuant to Section 9A of the Act (45 U.S.C. Section 159a).
Section
9A(c) of the Act provides that the President, upon such a request, shall
appoint an emergency board to investigate and report on the dispute.
Now,
Therefore, by the authority vested in me by Section 9A
of the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment of
Board. There is established, effective
Sec. 2. Report. The
Board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the dispute
within 30 days after the date of its creation.
Sec. 3. Maintaining
Conditions. As provided by Section 9A(c) of the Act, from the date of
the creation of the Board and for 120 days thereafter, no change, except by
agreement of the parties, shall be made by the carrier or the employees in the
conditions out of which the dispute arose.
Sec. 4. Expiration. The
board shall terminate upon the submission of the report provided for in section
2 of this Order.
Ronald
Reagan
The
White House,
[Filed with the Office
of the Federal Register,