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BNSF workers seek missing rail-yard dog
(The following report appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on September 9. K.A. Rice is a member of BLET Division 187 in Forth Worth, Texas.) HASLET -- Lowrider, a four-legged friend to many at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail yard in Haslet, has gone...
Downpour overwhelms transit in morning rush
(The following article by Michael Luo was posted on the New York Times website on September 9.) NEW YORK -- Torrential rains linked to Hurricane Frances moved into the New York metropolitan area yesterday, flooding the city's subway system during the morning rush and...
Villages, Metra work to improve homeland security
(The following story appeared on the Pioneer Press website on September 8.) GLENVIEW, Ill. -- Municipal officials have until Oct. 1 to show their support for a federal emergency management strategy if they want to quality for grants from the U.S. Department of...
Nevada files suit over nuke railroad
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on September 8.) LAS VEGAS -- State officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Energy Department over its plan to ship radioactive waste across the state to a planned nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain....
CSX train wreck is probed
(The following story by Michael Wagner appeared on the Fayetteville Observer website on September 9.) ABERDEEN -- Railroad investigators were still trying to figure out Wednesday why a freight train derailed in downtown Aberdeen Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the...
Rail maintenance employees join BLET in Pa. rail security survey
(The BLET Pennsylvania State Legislative Board issued the following news release on September 8.) HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees has joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen in the system-wide "Safe...
Railway plan for northeast Alberta has ‘substantial merit’: $2.6B cost seen
(The Canadian Press circulated the following article on September 7.) EDMONTON -- The idea of a railway linking the Athabasca oilsands to the rest of Alberta "has substantial merit" and the project would likely cost $2.6 billion, a report issued Tuesday says. "The...
Center for Political Accountability urges SEC to require corporate political disclosure
(The Center for Political Accountability issued the following news release on September 8.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) has called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require public companies disclose their...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on September 7.) New members reported in this week's WIP: 2,547 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 83,833 GRADUATING TO A UNION--The 2,000 graduate employees at the University of Illinois Chicago campus are now members of a...
EJ&E and TCU reach agreement
(The NMB issued the following news release on September 8.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Mediation Board (NMB) is pleased to announce that the Transportation Communications International Union (TCU) reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the...
