Executive Order No.
12655 -- Establishment of an Emergency Board 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 Transportation Communications Union-Carmen Division
A
dispute exists between the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation and certain
of its employees represented by the Transportation Communications Union-Carmen
Division.
The
dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway
Labor Act, as amended (the ``Act'').
A
party empowered by the Act has requested that the President establish an
emergency board pursuant to Section 9A of the Act (45 U.S.C. Section 159a).
Section
9A(e) 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, a board of three members to be appointed by
the President to investigate this dispute. No member shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of
railroad employees or any carrier. The board shall perform its functions
subject to the availability of funds.
Sec. 2. Report. Within
30 days after creation of the board, the parties to the dispute shall submit to
the board final offers for settlement of the dispute. Within 30 days after
submission of final offers for settlement of the dispute, the board shall
submit a report to the President setting forth its selection of the most
reasonable offer.
Sec. 3. Maintaining
Conditions. As provided by Section 9A(h) of the
Act, from the time a request to establish a board is made until 60 days after
the board makes its report, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by
the parties 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,
Note: The Executive
order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on November 8.