PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A Presidential Emergency Board is
expected to hear more testimony today from SEPTA, after two unions had their say
yesterday (see related story), in a long-running labor dispute. The mediation
is happening at an undisclosed Center City Hotel.
Three members of the panel are on a 30-day mission to hear
testimony from locomotive engineers and electrical workers, as well as SEPTA
labor relations staff, and deliver a report with recommendations to the
President by July 14th. The board’s recommendations are non-binding.
Just over a week ago, the two unions went on a one day
strike, SEPTA’S first since 1983.
But at the request of Governor Corbett, President Obama
intervened and appointed the presidential emergency board to hear their labor
dispute. That action on June 14th restarted train service.
The emergency board process has a shelf life of 240-days,
during which workers are required to stay on the job, per the Railway Labor
Act. If they don’t reach agreement by February, there could be another strike.
Their contract negotiations have been stalled for four
years.
Source: CBS
Philly
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