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Producers ante up for private rail ownership
(The following story by Adrian Ewins appeared on the Western Producer website on April 15.) SASKATOON -- Con Johnson wasn't sure what to expect when a group of 47 farmers gathered at a meeting hall in Climax, Sask., on a Monday evening in late March. Over the previous...
Court sets aside award in rail worker’s injury
(The following story by Howard Pankratz appeared on the Denver Post website on April 9.) DENVER -- A $6 million Denver jury verdict for a Union Pacific employee who fell down inside a locomotive and said the railroad then intentionally destroyed evidence has been...
CN court bound
(The following story by Katie Chalmers appeared on the Winnipeg Sun website on April 16.) WINNIPEG -- Canadian National Railway is going ahead with legal action against a handful of Winnipeg union workers for behaviour on the picket line during a month-long strike....
AFL-CIO targets ‘derelict’ CEO compensation committee directors
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on April 15.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many executive pay packages rose dramatically over the last year as a result of compensation committee directors who approved excessive deals despite CEOs' poor performance and declines...
Report: Workers ran pay scam at Metro-North
(The following story by Joshua Robin appeared on the Newsday website on April 15.) NEW YORK -- More than 40 Metro-North employees were found over the course of almost a year to have left work when they were supposed to be repairing and inspecting cars in an upstate...
AFL-CIO targets directors who OK high CEO pay
(Dow Jones Newswires circulated the following story by Phyllis Plitch on April 16.) NEW YORK -- In a new campaign, the AFL-CIO is targeting directors who sit on compensation committees, holding them responsible for approving pay packages it considers egregious....
Rail traffic up during holiday week
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on April 15.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Freight traffic on U.S. railroads rose during the week ended April 10 in comparison with the corresponding week last year. Intermodal traffic totaled 201,330...
UP to buy more engines, hire more workers
(The following report appeared on the Denver Post website on April 16.) OMAHA -- Union Pacific Corp., the biggest U.S. railroad, intends to acquire at least 120 more new locomotives this year, almost doubling its original plan, and hire 1,250 workers this quarter to...
RR officials discuss deadly 2002 Minot derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Blake Nicholson on April 16.) MINOT, N.D. -- The head of the Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday said his agency shoulders some of the blame for a deadly train derailment and chemical spill here two years...
Train station set as test site for screening of passengers
(The following story by Matthew L. Wald appeared on the New York Times website on April 16.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration plans to begin testing techniques next month for improving passenger rail security at a station in suburban Maryland that is served...
