{"id":37864,"date":"2015-07-15T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/president-obama-announces-peb-248-in-njt-dispute\/"},"modified":"2015-07-15T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:29:08","slug":"president-obama-announces-peb-248-in-njt-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/president-obama-announces-peb-248-in-njt-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama announces PEB 248 in NJT dispute","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today (July 15, 2015), President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order creating a Presidential Emergency Board to investigate and to make recommendations for settlement of the current disputes between the New Jersey Transit Rail and the NJT Rail Labor Coalition.<\/p>\n
The Executive Order established the Presidential Emergency Board effective July 16, 2015, and the Emergency Board will report its findings and recommendations for settlement to the President within thirty (30) days of its creation.<\/p>\n
President Obama also announced that he intends to appoint the following members to Presidential Emergency Board No. 248:<\/p>\n
President Obama\u00a0said, \u201cThe transit rail system is vital to our nation\u2019s economy, and it\u2019s crucial that we ensure it runs smoothly. \u00a0That\u2019s why I\u2019m grateful these talented individuals have agreed to serve the American people by helping to swiftly and appropriately resolve these labor-management disputes.\u201d SMART Transportation Division Vice President Doyle Turner reports that the PEB will begin Monday, July 27 and will most likely go through Friday, July 31. Although the BLET, also part of the NJT Rail Labor Coalition, has sent out a strike vote that has been approved by their members, SMART Transportation Division has taken no such action and will only do so if necessary after the PEB gives its ruling.<\/p>\n Dr. Elizabeth C. Wesman, Appointee for Chair, Presidential Emergency Board No. 248<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Elizabeth C. Wesman has been a full-time labor and employment arbitrator since 2000 and has practiced arbitration and mediation since 1981.\u00a0 She has arbitrated disputes in a wide array of industries, including railroad, aerospace, police and fire departments, and public and private universities.\u00a0 Dr. Wesman was Associate Professor of Strategy and Human Resources\/Industrial Relations at the Whitman School of Management at\u00a0Syracuse University from 1981 to 2000.\u00a0 She was also an Adjunct Professor at the Rochester, New York, Extension Division of Cornell University from 1990 to 2000.\u00a0 She was a lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Studies at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University from 1980 to 1981 and an Instructor in the Department of Economics at Le Moyne College from 1970 to 1975.\u00a0 Dr. Wesman is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.\u00a0 She is on the arbitration rosters of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the National Mediation Board.\u00a0 Dr. Wesman has been on a number of permanent panels, including the New York State\/Public Employees Federation Panel, the Oregon Employment Relations Board, and the Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission.\u00a0 She is the immediate past-President of the National Association of Railroad Referees.\u00a0 Dr. Wesman received an A.B. from Smith College, an M.A. from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. from the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.<\/p>\n Barbara Deinhardt, Appointee for Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 248<\/strong><\/p>\n Barbara Deinhardt has been a full-time labor and employment arbitrator and mediator since 1995.\u00a0 She served as Chair of the New York State Employment Relations Board from 2007 to 2009 and as Member and Chair of the New York State Workers\u2019 Compensation Board from 1991 to 1995.\u00a0 Ms. Deinhardt was the Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs and General Counsel to the New York State Department of Labor from 1986 to 1991.\u00a0 From 1984 to 1986, she was General Counsel to the Workers’ Compensation Board, and she was a Partner at Kestell, Pogue & Deinhardt from 1980 to 1984.\u00a0 She was a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in Boston from 1976 to 1980.\u00a0 Ms. Deinhardt served as a member of the Foreign Service Grievance Board from 1999 to 2005. \u00a0She is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the National Advisory Board of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and the New York State Bar Association.\u00a0 Ms. Deinhardt received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.<\/p>\n Ann Kenis, Appointee for Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 248<\/strong><\/p>\n Ann Kenis has been a professional arbitrator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and American Arbitration Association since 1992 and a hearing officer for the Illinois State Board of Education since 1994.\u00a0 She has arbitrated hundreds of disputes in a wide array of industries, including the railroad, manufacturing, automotive, education, transportation, postal service, public sector, service industries, trucking and transportation.\u00a0\u00a0From 1984 to 1991,\u00a0she was an associate attorney for Arbitrator Elliott H. Goldstein.\u00a0 Ms. Kenis began her career as an attorney representing clients in matters of employment and education at Kerr &\u00a0Longwell\u00a0from 1981 to 1984.\u00a0 She has been on the arbitration roster of the National Mediation Board for 20 years.\u00a0 Ms. Kenis has been appointed to permanent panels for the State of Illinois Department of Central Management Services and its various unions, the Chicago Transit Authority and ATU Locals 241 and 308, and Caterpillar and the United Auto Workers.\u00a0 She is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and has served as Secretary\/Treasurer of the National Association of Railroad Referees.\u00a0 Ms. Kenis received a B.S. from University of Illinois, an M.A. from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from Loyola University.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today (July 15, 2015), President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order creating a Presidential Emergency Board to investigate and to make recommendations for settlement of the current disputes between the New Jersey Transit Rail and the NJT Rail Labor Coalition. 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