§797g New Collective-bargaining Agreements

Summary

Within 60 days after a railroad’s assets are transferred under this chapter, employee representatives and the Corporation must begin negotiating one new union contract for each job class. Each contract must cover pay, rules, and working conditions, and talks must happen systemwide. Until April 1, 1984, the contracts cannot include job‑stability terms that go beyond or conflict with what this law allows. If the parties agreed on a specific 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 procedure will count as meeting the requirements of sections 157 and 158, and the National Mediation Board will make any needed appointments. The parties don’t have to make a new single contract if the one in effect just before August 13, 1981 already met section 774(d) as it then read. Employees may not give notices under section 156 to bargain for job‑stabilization or other protective agreements until after April 1, 1984.