Executive Order 14374: Establishing a Second Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between the Long Island Rail Road Company and Certain of Its Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

Executive Order 14374 establishes a second emergency board to look into disputes between the Long Island Rail Road Company and certain employees represented by five labor organizations. The order was signed on Jan. 14, 2026. The Federal Register published the text on Jan. 20, 2026.

The order says those disputes have not been settled under the Railway Labor Act. It names the Transportation Communications Union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

An earlier emergency board was established on Sept. 18, 2025, by Executive Order 14349 of Sept. 16, 2025, according to the order. That board ended when it submitted its report to the President. The order says its recommendations were not accepted by all of the parties.

The order states that a party empowered by the Railway Labor Act then asked the President to establish a second emergency board. The order says the statute requires the President, after such a request, to appoint a second board to investigate the disputes and report on them.

The order creates the board effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on Jan. 16, 2026. It is to have a chair and two other members, and the President is to appoint all three, the order says. No member may have a financial interest or any other stake in a railroad employee organization or a carrier. The board is to carry out its work subject to available funds, according to the order.

The order sets two deadlines taken from the Railway Labor Act. Within 30 days after the board is created, the parties must give the board their final settlement offers. Within 30 days after those offers are submitted, the board must send the President a report that identifies which offer the board finds most reasonable.

The order also restricts changes while the process runs. From the time a request for the board is made until 60 days after the board sends its report to the President, the parties may not alter the conditions that gave rise to the disputes unless they agree to do so, the order says.

The order treats the board’s records and files as records of the Office of the President. When the board ends, the National Mediation Board is to hold those records in its physical custody. The board terminates once it submits the report the order requires. The Department of Transportation is to pay the cost of publishing the order, the order says.