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Executive Order 12925

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Soo Line Railroad Company and Certain of Its Employees Represented by the United Transportation Union

President Clinton established a three-member emergency board to investigate a labor dispute between Soo Line Railroad Company and its employees represented by the United Transportation Union under the Railway Labor Act. The board must report within 30 days, during which time neither party may change the conditions of the dispute.

Federal Register 59 FR 45181
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Impact dates

  1. End of 30-day post-report cooling-off period (no earlier than report submission date)

  2. Board report to President due

Key directives

  • Establish three-member Emergency Board effective August 29, 1994
  • Board members must have no financial or other interest in railroad employee organizations or railroad carriers
  • Board shall report to President within 30 days of creation
  • No changes to dispute conditions for 30 days after Board report submission except by mutual agreement
  • Board records maintained as Office of the President records, then transferred to National Mediation Board
  • Board terminates upon report submission

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Emergency Board established effective August 29, 1994
  • 30-day status quo period begins preventing changes to dispute conditions

Near term (90d)

  • Board must submit report to President by September 28, 1994
  • 30-day post-report cooling-off period following submission

Long term

  • Board terminates automatically upon report submission
  • Records transferred to National Mediation Board custody

Risks & tensions

  • Dispute threatened 'substantially to interrupt interstate commerce' and deprive region of 'essential transportation service' per National Mediation Board finding
  • Binding effect depends on parties' willingness to accept board recommendations; no compulsory arbitration
  • Status quo requirement may freeze unfavorable conditions for one or both parties
  • Vague: 'availability of funds' qualifier on Board operations
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