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Executive Order 13036: Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between American Airlines and its Employees Represented by the Allied Pilots Association

President: Bill Clinton

Created a temporary emergency board after an American Airlines pilots’ dispute threatened substantially to interrupt interstate commerce.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 13036 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13036 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13036 do?

EO 13036 established Presidential Emergency Board 233 under section 10 of the Railway Labor Act to investigate the dispute between American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association. The order followed a brief strike and required the parties to preserve the status quo while the board investigated and reported. The National Mediation Board records the board as closed on March 19, 1997.

Administration position: The board created a cooling-off and fact-finding process; it did not itself impose a permanent contract or decide every disputed term.
SignedFebruary 15, 1997
BoardPresidential Emergency Board 233
PartiesAmerican Airlines and Allied Pilots Association

Before and after

Before the order

Mediation had not resolved the dispute, and a brief pilots’ strike threatened major interruption to air service.

After the order

The emergency board investigated and reported while statutory status-quo restrictions gave the parties additional time to settle.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Emergency boardInvestigate and report on the disputeCompleted
Airline and unionMaintain the status quoDuring the statutory period
National Mediation BoardAdminister the Railway Labor Act processCompleted

What happened next

EO 13036 created PEB 233.

The National Mediation Board records PEB 233 as closed.