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CP Rail, TCRC at odds over worker fatigue
(Source: Calgary Herald, November 9, 2016) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway is butting heads with one of its unions over its workplace fatigue practices, saying its efforts to bring predictable schedules and mandatory time-off periods to employees are being...
TCRC is a leader in fatigue management
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) press release, November 9, 2016) OTTAWA — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents 12,000 workers in the rail industry, publically released its Fatigue Risk Guiding Philosophy for the Railway...
Railroad Retirement benefits will increase in 2017
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 21, 2016) CHICAGO — Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, are scheduled to increase slightly in January 2017 on the basis of the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the...
Railroad retiree earnings limits to rise in 2017
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 21, 2016) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuitants subject to earnings restrictions can earn more in 2017 without having their benefits reduced as a result of increases in earnings limits indexed to average...
Teamsters: ‘Court-shopping’ fuels effort to overturn pro-worker labor rule
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, November 8, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s called court-shopping. If you don’t like a law or a federal rule, find a “friendly” federal judge to overturn it – and it doesn’t matter where. That’s what...
NS EVP and CEO Stewart sells $190,000 in company stock
(Source: www.whatsonthorold.com, November 9, 2016) NEW YORK — The EVP-Finance and CFO of Norfolk Southern Corp, Marta Stewart, has made an unexpected deal in the Pinksheet-listed Norfolk Southern Corp that is having a worth of $190,364. As published in the U.S....
Teamsters vote to strike UCLA on November 16
(Source: Teamsters Local 2010 press release, November 3, 2016) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — On Thursday, November 3, our UCLA electricians, elevator mechanics, plumbers, facilities workers, and other skilled trades workers, overwhelmingly voted (96%) to strike over the...
KCS, Union Pacific brace for fallout after Trump election
(Source: Bloomberg, November 9, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trump campaigned on vows to build a wall along the southern border, deport millions of Hispanic immigrants, dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement and ignite a trade war with Mexico. That doesn’t bode...
Donald Trump is elected president in stunning repudiation of the establishment
(Source: New York Times, November 9, 2016) NEW YORK — Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and...
Editorial: Trains key to I-75 traffic plan
(Source: Ocala Star Banner editorial, November 4, 2016) OCALA, Fla. — Drive Interstate 75 between the Hernando-Pasco county line and the Florida Turnpike and you’ll see that the Florida Department of Transportation is in the middle of a long overdue expansion of the...
