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The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes. Its provisions were originally enforced under the Board of Mediation ...
Originally every railway, tramway and canal had its own act of Parliament, but eventually most of the common clauses were extracted into General Railways Acts, leaving each company's individual act to deal with exceptions to the general rules only.
The Railways Act, 1989 is an Act of the Parliament of India which regulates all aspects of rail transport. The Act came into force in 1989, replacing the Railways Act of 1890. The Act provides in detail the legislative provisions regarding railway zones, construction and maintenance of works, passenger and employee services.
In July 2022, a Presidential Emergency Board was convened under the Railway Labor Act by President Joe Biden. [11] His Executive order stated, "I have been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service."
President Jimmy Carter signs the Staggers Rail Act into law on October 14, 1980. Representative Harley O. Staggers, sponsor of the bill, stands to the president's right.. The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced the regulatory structure that had existed since the Interstate Commerce Act ...
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 489) was the original act. Some of its provisions were subsequently modified, expanded, or repealed by four additional amending Acts: The Pacific Railroad Act of 1863 (12 Stat. 807 ), Pacific Railroad Act of 1864 (13 Stat. 356 ), Pacific Railroad Act of 1865 (13 Stat. 504 ), and Pacific Railroad Act of ...
The Railways Act 1873; The Light Railways Act 1896; The Railways Act 1921; The Transport Act 1947; The Railways Act 1993; The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003; The Railways Act 2005; The Railway and Canal Traffic Acts 1854 to 1894 is the collective title of the following Acts: [3] The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31)
The Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993. It provided for the restructuring of the British Railways Board (BRB), the public corporation that owned and operated the national railway system.