Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Their- Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 1996 / Presidential Documents

Executive Order 13004 of May 17, 1996

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Their- Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and their employees represented by certain labor organizations. The railroads and labor organizations involved in these disputes are designated on the attached lists, which are made a part of this order.

These disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the ``Act'').

In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service.

NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 10 of the Act (45 U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (``Board''). There is established effective May 17, 1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the President to investigate the disputes. No member shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any railroad carrier. The Board shall perform its functions subject to the availability of funds.

Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President with respect to the dispute within 30 days of its creation.

Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 10 of the Act, from the date of the creation of the Board and for 30 days after the Board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement of the parties, shall be made by the railroads or the employees in the conditions out of which the disputes arose.

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.

Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the submission of the report provided for in sections 2 and 3 of this order.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 17, 1996.

RAILROADS

Alameda Belt Line Railway

Alton & Southern Railroad

American Refrigerator Transit Company

Arkansas Memphis Bridge Company

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company

Belt Railway Company of Chicago

Brownsville & Matamoros Bridge Company

Burlington Northern Railroad Company

Allouez Taconite Facility

Brainerd Timber Treating Plant

Western Fruit Express Company

Camas Prairie Railroad Company

Canadian National North America

Central California Traction Company

Chicago Heights Terminal Railroad

Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad

Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad

Consolidated Rail Corporation

CSX Transportation, Inc.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (former)

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (former)

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (former)

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company (former)

Houston Belt and Terminal Railway

Joint Railroad Agency - National Stock Yards

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

CP-Kansas City Southern Joint Agency

Kansas City Terminal Railway Company

Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company

Los Angeles Junction Railroad Company

Missouri Pacific Railroad

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad

Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Norfolk Southern Railway Company

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company

Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company

Central of Georgia Railroad Company

The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company

Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company

Norfolk & Western Railway Company

Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Company

Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District

Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company

The Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Company

Port Terminal Railroad Association

Portland Terminal Railroad Company

Spokane International Railroad

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

Texarkana Union Station Trust Company

Union Pacific Fruit Express

Union Pacific Railroad

Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas Railroad

Western Pacific Railroad

Wichita Terminal Association

LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Sheet Metal Workers International Association

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