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

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

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).

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

Section 9A(c) of the RLA provides that the President,
upon such request, shall appoint an 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 Emergency Board (Board).
There is established, effective 12:01 a.m. eastern
daylight time on July 25, 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. 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
9A(c) of the RLA, for 120 days from the date of the
creation of the Board, no change in the conditions out
of which the dispute arose shall be made by the parties
to the controversy, 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.

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

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 24, 2024.