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KCS 1Q results reflect improved domestic performance
(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on April 29.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Southern reported operating income of $17.4 million in the first quarter of 2004, a substantial gain over the $6.8 million reported in the first quarter of 2003....
Union Pacific faces shortage of equipment and workers
(The following article by Dan Piller was posted on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on April 30.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday that first-quarter earnings were down 62 percent, primarily because of service problems caused by shortages of...
Crew shortage hurts Union Pacific profits
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 29.) OMAHA, Neb. -- A train crew shortage and a charge of $35.8 million to pay for a court judgment hurt profits in Union Pacific Corp.'s first quarter, but demand for its services continued to grow,...
One-time events clip U.P. profits
(The following article by Stacie Hamel was posted on the Omaha World-Herald website on April 29.) OMAHA, Neb. -- Union Pacific Corp. reported Thursday it had first-quarter net income of $165 million, or 63 cents per share. That's down 62 percent from last year's first...
Federal Railroad Administrator Allan Rutter announces move to Texas transportation position
(The FRA issued the following news release on April 30.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Allan Rutter, Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, announced today that he is leaving his current post in mid-June for a position with a Texas transportation organization....
Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the House hearing on the Bush administration’s overtime restrictions
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on April 28.) Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao missed an opportunity today to guarantee American workers that not a single one of them would lose overtime pay rights under the new Bush Administration’s overtime regulations. Instead,...
Statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney on Bush administration’s decision to turn down the AFL-CIO petition on China’s workers’ rights violations
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on April 28.) The Bush administration’s decision to turn down the AFL-CIO’s 301 workers’ rights petition is an outrage and an insult to American and Chinese workers. It shows decisively that this Administration will only enforce U.S....
Transportation labor honors Workers Memorial Day
(The TTD issued the following statement on April 28.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued today by Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, commemorating the April 28 Workers Memorial Day. "On Workers Memorial Day,...
Diesel protest partially shuts UP yard
(The following article by Dale Kasler was posted on the Sacramento Bee website on April 29.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- High diesel fuel prices rattled California's transportation industry Wednesday, as independent truckers in Stockton walked out for a third straight day...
Boston security talks get on track
(The following report by Robin Washington appeared on the Boston Herald website on April 29.) BOSTON -- Representatives of transit and law enforcement agencies will join a group of Bay State congressmen tomorrow in an effort to get security concerns on the same track....
