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LA – Long Beach ports expand cargo hours
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on August 24.) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The nation's largest port complex is looking to nights and weekends to move cargo, hoping to ease trucking traffic and air pollution. A coalition of marine terminal operators...
Statement of General President Jim Hoffa on President Bush’s overtime cuts
(The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following news release on August 23.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today millions of hardworking men and women across the country have suffered yet another blow to their ability to provide for their families when the Bush...
Unions protest new overtime regulations
(The Associated Press distributed the following article by Leigh Strope on August 23.) WASHINGTON -- Several hundred union members marched outside the Labor Department (news - web sites) to protest new overtime pay regulations taking effect Monday, with two senators...
Conrail, CSXT and NSR announce results of exchange offer and consent solicitations
(Conrail, CSX and Norfolk Southern issued the following news release on August 24.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) today announced the results of the offer to...
50 protest MBTA search policy
(The following article by Martha Bartle was posted on the Boston Globe website on August 24.) BOSTON -- Nearly 50 people, including organizers from the T Riders Union, rallied at Downtown Crossing yesterday to continue railing against the MBTA's bag-screening policy,...
Railroads promising better service as grain harvest nears
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on August 23.) FARGO, N.D. -- Railroads will face a challenge again this year in hauling North Dakota's harvest to market, shippers predict. Last year, grain dealers piled a record 18 million bushels of wheat,...
KCS stays on track
(The Kansas City Star posted the following article by Randolph Heaster on its website on August 24.) KANSAS CITY -- Last month, Kansas City Southern chairman and chief executive Mike Haverty took the railroad industry's top regulator on an aerial tour of Kansas City's...
Shipping by rail still off track
(The following article by Suzanne Marta was posted on the Dallas Morning News website on August 24.) DALLAS -- Shippers who depend on trains to transport bulky goods have spent much of this year grappling with delays in rail service. But as the summer months close,...
Police bolster presence at Penn Station
(The following article by Mary Spicuzza was posted on the New York Times website on August 24.) NEW YORK -- The New York City Police Department stepped up security in and around Pennsylvania Station yesterday, flooding the area with officers to prepare for the...
Blaze in railroad tunnel is finally out
(The following article was posted on the Klamath Falls Herald and News website on August 23.) KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. -- A fire in a railroad tunnel near Willamette Pass that has disrupted Amtrak service between the Pacific Northwest and California for the last eight days...
