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Obama Oversees New Jersey Transit Agency's Labor Battle

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to create a second emergency board to investigate the dispute between New Jersey Transit and its labor unions.

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to create a second emergency board to investigate the dispute between New Jersey Transit and its labor unions.

 

The union called a contract offer made to the first emergency board that Obama set up in July "utterly unacceptable."

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.