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Report: BNSF rail rates unfair
(The following story by Marvin Baker appeared on the Minot Daily News website on September 1.) BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota's Public Service Commission wants the Legislature to consider filing a challenge against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for what it...
Recalling a nightmare
(The following story by Stephanie Kirk appeared on the Opetousas Daily World website on September 1.) EUNICE. La. -- The city seems to be back to normal, but residents still remember the train wreck and chemical spill on May 27, 2000, because it changed their lives...
New merchandise available at BLET Online Store
CLEVELAND -- A new shipment of union-made BLET merchandise is now available through the National Division. New items include Zippo lighters and money clips, lapel pins, pocket knives, patches and windshirts. In addition, the National Division also received a new...
AFL-CIO Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on August 30.) CHOOSING A UNION--Some 250 employees of Monarch Industries in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, voted for UNITE HERE last week. Monarch makes pumps, hydraulic cylinders and metal castings. Another 32 workers at an Aramark...
PSC recommends rate case against BNSF
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Andrea Domaskin on August 31.) BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Public Service Commission is recommending the state move forward with a federal challenge of Burlington Northern Santa Fe's grain shipping rates. Commission...
North Dakota investigation claims unfair BNSF shipping rates
(The following story by Jeff Zent appeared on The Forum website on August 31.) FARGO, N.D. -- North Dakota officials say they can now prove what the state's farmers and grain dealers have long suspected: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway overcharges millions of...
A quiet day at Penn Station
(The following story by Michael Luo appeared on the New York Times website on August 30.) NEW YORK -- Michael J. Gallagher, who is in charge of operations at Pennsylvania Station, was getting restless this afternoon. He had already walked around the station three...
Amtrak cancels mail on passenger trains
(The following story by Tom Ramstack appeared on the Washington Times website on August 31.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak plans to stop carrying mail in October as it refocuses on its core business of transporting passengers. "The profit margin is small and we feel that...
BNSF shows off new Idaho pit stop
(The following story by Nicholas K. Geranios appeared on the Portland Oregonian website on August 31.) HAUSER, Idaho -- Locomotive 4141 blasted through the opening ceremony ribbon Monday at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co.'s new refueling station in...
27 immigrants found locked in UP train
(The following story by Louie Gilot appeared on the El Paso Times website on August 31.) EL PASO -- Twenty-seven undocumented immigrants, including two children traveling with their mothers, were found in a locked train car in Santa Teresa on Sunday morning, Border...
