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, 93145-93146 [2024-27850]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 93145-93146]
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[FR Doc No: 2024-27850]




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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 228 / Tuesday, November 26, 2024 / 
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                Executive Order 14128 of November 21, 2024

                
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

                A dispute exists between the New Jersey Transit Rail 
                Operations and its Locomotive Engineers represented by 
                the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

                The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the 
                provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, 45 
                U.S.C. 151-188 (RLA).

                An emergency board to investigate and report on the 
                dispute was established on July 25, 2024, by Executive 
                Order 14125 of July 24, 2024 (Establishing an 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). That emergency board terminated upon 
                submission of its report to the President. 
                Subsequently, its recommendations were not accepted by 
                the parties.

                A party empowered by the RLA has requested that the 
                President establish a second emergency board pursuant 
                to section 9A of the RLA (45 U.S.C. 159a).

                Section 9A(e) of the RLA provides that the President, 
                upon such request, shall appoint a second emergency 
                board to investigate and report on the dispute.

                NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as 
                President by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, including section 9A of the RLA, it is 
                hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Establishment of a Second Emergency Board 
                (Board). There is established, effective 12:01 a.m. 
                eastern standard time on November 22, 2024, a Board 
                composed of a chair and two other members, all of whom 
                shall be appointed by the President to investigate and 
                report on the 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. As provided by section 9A(f) of the 
                RLA, within 30 days after the creation of the Board, 
                the parties to the dispute shall submit to the Board 
                final offers for settlement of the dispute. As provided 
                by section 9A(g) of the RLA, within 30 days after the 
                submission of final offers for settlement of the 
                dispute, the Board shall submit a report to the 
                President setting forth the Board's selection of the 
                most reasonable offer.

                Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 
                9A(h) of the RLA, from the time the request to 
                establish the Board is made until 60 days after the 
                Board submits its report to the President, the parties 
                to the controversy shall make no change in the 
                conditions out of which the dispute arose except by 
                agreement of the parties.

                Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of 
                the Board are records of the Office of the President 
                and upon the Board's termination shall be maintained in 
                the physical custody of the National Mediation Board.

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                Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the 
                submission of the report to the President provided for 
                in section 2 of this order.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    November 21, 2024.

[FR Doc. 2024-27850
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