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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 ...
Colin J. Davis, Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. W.N. Doak, "Labor Policies of the Transportation Act from the Point of View of Railroad Employees," Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, vol. 10, no. 1 (July 1922), pp. 39–48. In JSTOR.
Revoking Executive Orders No. 2463 of September 29, 1916, and No. 4182 of March 24, 1925, Relating to Administration of Employees' Compensation Act With Respect to Employees of the Alaska Railroad, and Placing the Administration of that Act as to Such Employees in the Federal Security Agency November 21, 1946 275 9805
Using powers granted to the government by the Regulation of the Forces Act 1871, the REC took control of the national rail network on 4 August 1914, the day that war was declared and mobilisation began. [3] Alexander Kaye Butterworth was appointed chairman. [4] REC control lasted from 1914 to 1921.
In the 1920s, the Ministry's involvement in the rail sector was limited to administrative and technical supervisory functions. The National Railway ( Deutsche Reichsbahn ) was initially organized as an independent state-owned company to guarantee that Germany paid war reparations according to the provisions of the 1924 Dawes Plan .
The Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. (1908), is a United States federal law that protects and compensates railroaders injured on the job. [ 1 ] Background
The Transportation Act, 1920, commonly known as the Esch–Cummins Act, was a United States federal law that returned railroads to private operation after World War I, with much regulation. [1] It also officially encouraged private consolidation of railroads and mandated that the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ensure their profitability.
The Act, formerly codified at 45 U.S.C. §§ 65, 66, was repealed in 1996 when it provided: §65. Establishment of eight hour day Eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service, be deemed a day's work and the measure of standard of a day's work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed by any common carrier by ...