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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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

November 21, 2024. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27850 

Filed 11–25–24; 8:45 am] 

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