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Executive Order: Establishing An Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute
Between Metro-North Railroad and Its Maintenance of Way Employees
Represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 4, 2007

Executive Order: Establishing An Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute
Between Metro-North Railroad and Its Maintenance of Way Employees
Represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

˙˙White House News


A dispute exists between Metro-North Railroad and its maintenance of way
employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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

A first emergency board to investigate and report on this dispute and
disputes of other employees represented by other labor organizations was
established on December 7, 2006, by Executive Order 13417 of December 6,
2006. The emergency board terminated upon issuance of its report.
Subsequently, its recommendations were not accepted by the parties.

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

Section 9A(e) of the Act 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
Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (Board). There is established,
effective April 6, 2007, a Board of three members to be appointed by the
President to investigate and report on 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 the 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 the 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 second emergency 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.

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

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 4, 2007.

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