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White-collar workers are turning to labor unions
(Source: Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2013) NEW YORK — The next wave of union protesters isn't blue collar. It's lawyers, paralegals, secretaries, helicopter pilots, judges, insurance agents and podiatrists. These white-collar workers are not exactly the picture of the...
Hoffa: Congress needs to take action to keep college affordable
(Source: Column by James P. Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, published in The Detroit News on June 12, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Working people struggle and fight to form unions so their children can have better lives than they do. For...
Via Rail braces for service disruption as CAW strike looms
(Source: Winnipeg Free Press, June 13, 2013) WINNIPEG — The union representing customer service staff at Via Rail is preparing to leave the station, meaning train service in Manitoba will be slowed. Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), which represents approximately 2,200...
New details emerge in probe of CSX train derailment near Baltimore
(Source: Baltimore Sun, June 13, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — The National Transportation Safety Board released new details Wednesday on its investigation into last month's train derailment and explosion in Rosedale, finding that more chemicals were released in the crash...
AAR: Railroads report intermodal volume up 2.5 percent over 2012 for week ending June 8
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, June 13, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported mixed traffic for the week ending June 8, 2013, with total U.S. weekly carloads of 278,249 carloads, down 2.8 percent...
NTSB to meet on 2012 collision involving freight trains in Goodwell, Okla.
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, June 13, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of two freight trains that collided near Goodwell, OK. On June 24, 2012, at about 10:00...
Railroad Retirement spouse and widow(er)’s annuities and public service pensions
(Source: U.S. Railroad Retirement Board press release, May 6, 2013) CHICAGO — Railroad Retirement Act spouse and widow(er)s' annuities (including divorced spouse, surviving divorced spouse and remarried widow(er)s' annuities) are subject to reduction when social...
Amtrak gets gourmet advice
(Source: Washington Post, June 11, 2013) WILMINGTON, Del. — Here in a small test kitchen on a dead-end street downtown, some of the food world’s greatest minds are at work. Their task might seem impossible, but they believe they can make a difference for millions of...
ALEC gets a whitewash from the political press
(Source: Teamster Nation, June 11, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — You can draw a straight line from the Wisconsin uprising of 2011 through the No Rights At Work fight in Michigan to the Moral Monday protests now raging in North Carolina. You can throw in the SB 5 fight in...
Dozens more arrested in latest Moral Monday protest in North Carolina
(Source: Teamster Nation, June 11, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens were arrested yesterday in the weekly Moral Monday protest outside the North Carolina Statehouse, where thousands rallied against the Legislature's anti-worker agenda. More than 375 people have been...
