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Obama Orders Philadelphia Transit Workers To End Strike
| By NEDRA PICKLER
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama is forcing workers in Philadelphia's commuter rail strike to return to the job.
Obama granted Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's request to create a presidential emergency board to mediate the dispute between the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its engineers and electricians unions.
Obama called for "a swift and smooth resolution" of the dispute. More than 400 workers went on strike at midnight.
Workers will have to return to the job when the board is established at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Obama's order doesn't force the two sides to resume direct talks with each other. But they must participate with the board's process, which typically involves written submissions and hearings.
After 30 days, the board must recommend to Obama how the dispute should be resolved.
Hey Overspun, isn't that what the "NO" voters said? That if we went through with a strike that the President would step in and order a Presidential Emergency Board" and would give us another opportunity to negotiate? But You know more than anyone else or decieve everyone else. The philadelphia strike was only 400 people and only affected a small city and the President stepped in. What do you think the president would have done if a strike affected all major cities and thousands of workers? You see Overspun, the "NO" voters had a cause. You and The TWU pushed a "YES" with only your cause in mind, to help the company pass this management concessionary contract without a fight.
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Obama Orders Philadelphia Transit Workers To End Strike
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama is forcing workers in Philadelphia's commuter rail strike to return to the job.
Obama granted Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's request to create a presidential emergency board to mediate the dispute between the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its engineers and electricians unions.
Obama called for "a swift and smooth resolution" of the dispute. More than 400 workers went on strike at midnight.
Workers will have to return to the job when the board is established at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Obama's order doesn't force the two sides to resume direct talks with each other. But they must participate with the board's process, which typically involves written submissions and hearings.
After 30 days, the board must recommend to Obama how the dispute should be resolved.
Hey Overspun, isn't that what the "NO" voters said? That if we went through with a strike that the President would step in and order a Presidential Emergency Board" and would give us another opportunity to negotiate? But You know more than anyone else or decieve everyone else. The philadelphia strike was only 400 people and only affected a small city and the President stepped in. What do you think the president would have done if a strike affected all major cities and thousands of workers? You see Overspun, the "NO" voters had a cause. You and The TWU pushed a "YES" with only your cause in mind, to help the company pass this management concessionary contract without a fight.
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