§797g — Title 45 Railroads | U.S. Code

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Within 60 days after a railroad transfer under this law takes effect, employee-class representatives and the Corporation must begin negotiating one new labor contract for each job class. The contract must cover pay, rules, and working conditions for employees of the Corporation. Negotiations must happen systemwide. The contracts may not include any job‑stabilization protections that go beyond or conflict with what this law allows before April 1, 1984. If the parties agreed on a procedure to finish the first single contract before August 13, 1981, they must complete that procedure no later than 45 days after August 13, 1981. That agreed procedure counts as meeting the requirements of sections 157 and 158, and the National Mediation Board must appoint any person those agreements call for. Parties do not have to make a new single contract if the one in effect right before August 13, 1981 already met section 774(d) as it then stood. Employees cannot give notices to negotiate job‑stabilization or similar protections under section 156 until after April 1, 1984.

Title 45, §797g

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(a)Not later than 60 days after the effective date of any conveyance pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the representatives of the various classes or crafts of employees of a railroad in reorganization involved in a conveyance and representatives of the Corporation shall commence negotiation of a new single collective bargaining agreement for each class and craft of employees covering the rate of pay, rules, and working conditions of employees who are the employees of the Corporation. Such collective bargaining agreement shall include appropriate provisions concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, but shall not, before April 1, 1984, include any provisions for job stabilization which may exceed or conflict with those established herein. Negotiations with respect to such single collective bargaining agreement, and any successor thereto, shall be conducted systemwide.

(b)(1)Any procedure for finally determining the components of the first single collective bargaining agreement for any class or craft, agreed upon before August 13, 1981, shall be completed no later than 45 days after August 13, 1981. Such agreed upon procedure shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of section 157 and 158 of this title. The National Mediation Board shall appoint any person as provided for by such agreements.

(2)Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the parties to enter into a new single collective bargaining agreement if the agreement between the parties in effect immediately prior to August 13, 1981, complied with section 774(d) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title as in effect immediately prior to such date.

(c)Employees of the Corporation may not serve notices under section 156 of this title for the purpose of negotiating job stabilization or other protective agreements with the Corporation until after April 1, 1984.

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section 774 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), was repealed by Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1144(a)(1), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 669.

§797g New collective-bargaining agreements

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Title 45, §797g

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