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Proposed railway service penalties not necessary, CN Rail, CP Rail chiefs argue
(Source: Financial Post, December 11, 2012) OTTAWA — Canada’s largest railways said new legislations tabled in Parliament Tuesday aimed at improving the quality of service they provide their customers was unnecessary, including the threat of hefty fines if they fail...
TCRC’s maintenance of way employees reach tentative deal with CP Rail
(Source: Canadian Press, December 11, 2012) CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Teamsters Canada have reached a new five-year labour agreement covering 2,600 workers. The union says the tentative deal includes three per cent annual wage increases, a...
Passenger rail service to run between Boston, Cape Cod starting in 2013
(Source: Boston Globe, December 11, 2012) BOSTON — Passenger rail service from Boston to Cape Cod will run for the first time in more than two decades starting in the summer of 2013, a spokesman for the MBTA said Tuesday. Full story: Boston Globe
From Norfolk to D.C. and back — on an Amtrak train
(Source: Virginian Pilot, December 13, 2012) ABOARD an AMTRAK TRAIN — Amtrak supporters gush about how the train is such a great way to avoid traffic. Here's another way: Hit the road at 4 a.m. It was all open road but for two vehicles in the distance as I crossed the...
Union Pacific trains sounding horns at post-accident quiet zone in Midland
(Source: Midland Reporter-Telegram, December 12, 2012) MIDLAND, Texas — Residents living near the site of the Nov. 15 fatal train crash have heard train horns sounding in their neighborhood since that tragic day at what is supposed to be a designated quiet zone....
Amtrak asks for subsidies in wake of Hurricane Sandy
(Source: Marketplace, December 13, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Capitol Hill today, fiscal conservatives are likely to argue against the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies that go to Amtrak each year. But Hurricane Sandy showed you need to spend if you want...
Groups vow to push ‘right to work’ in other states
(Source: Washington Post, December 12, 2012) LANSING, Mich. — The conservative groups that supported Michigan’s new “right to work” law — winning a stunning victory over unions, even in the heart of American labor — vowed Wednesday to replicate that success elsewhere....
Opinion: The misleading framing of ‘right-to-work’
(Source: Washington Post, December 12, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The term “right-to-work law” is a triumph of framing. Such laws do not, in fact, give you the “right to work.” They give you the right to refuse to pay union dues when you work for a union shop, even...
More protests after Michigan right-to-work action
(Source: Associated Press, December 12, 2012) LANSING, Mich. — Protests have stretched from Detroit to Marquette after Republicans converted Michigan from a fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work state. Full story: San Francisco Chronicle
Right-wingers Koch, ALEC, pushed Michigan ‘right-to-work’ laws
(Source: MSNBC, December 12, 2012) The United Auto Workers were “blindsided” by Michigan’s new ‘right-to-work’ legislation, union president Bob King told MSNBC Tuesday, shortly after Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bills into law. In fact, the union had entered what King...
