U.S. Emergency Board No. 146 Records

The agreement between the parties -was scheduled to expire on January 1, 1961. Both the Company and the Association filed the required notices of intention to change the agreement in October 1960. Negotiations were begun in November and continued to the end of December when the parties requested the services of the National Mediation Board.

Numerous mediation sessions were held during the next four months, but no agreement was reached, so the National Mediation Board suggested arbitration as required by the Railway Labor Act. This was accepted by the Company and rejected by the Association, On September 15, 1961 the Mediation Board closed its file.

negotiations were resumed and continued to March 2, 1962 but no final agreement could be reached. On March 18, the Association notified the Company of its intention to strike on March 21.

There were more than one hundred separate proposals for revisions in the contract affecting recognition, scope, wages, hours, flight-time pay and credits, training, seniority, adjustment of grievances, vacations, sick leave, insurance benefits and many others, but the issue of crew complement was the central problem in this as in other disputes.

On March 20, 1962, by Executive Order 11011, the President created an Emergency Board consisting of James 0. Hill, Thomas C. Begley and Arthur W. Sempliner. Hearings were held from April 3 to April 18, 1962, and a report and recommendations issued on May 1, 1962.