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(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on March 8.) New members reported in this week's WIP: 3,425 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 27,421 FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH—More than 1,800 direct-care workers, counselors, nurses and administrators with Northwestern...
Company ships sections of ready-made rail nationwide
(The following story by Jeff Tucker appeared on The Pueblo Chieftain website on March 7.) PUEBLO, Colo. -- In remote places along the vast Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad lines and at road crossings and on bridges, you can find the work of a relatively quiet...
Ohio Governor to help celebrate reopening of rail foundry
(The following story by Gloria Irwin appeared on the Akron Beacon Journal website on March 9.) ALLIANCE, Ohio -- The foundry where couplers, yokes and center plates for railroad cars were first made more than a century ago is once again working for the rail industry....
Scholars cast doubt on site of mass rail workers’ grave
(The following story by Benjamin Y. Lowe appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 9.) PHILADELPHIA -- Somewhere near SEPTA's R-5 Line in Malvern is the mass grave of 57 Irish workers who died while toiling on the railroad in the 1830s. For years, people...
Bullet train opponents will hire firm to help place issue on ballot
(The following story by Beth P. Krane appeared on the Sun Sentinel website on March 9.) DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Local supporters of a campaign to stop the statewide bullet train said Monday they plan to hire a company to help collect the signatures needed to get the...
Health of SEPTA plan drives strike threat
(The following story by Gloria Campisi appeared on the Philadelphia Daily News website on March 9.) PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia could be hit by a transit strike Monday if SEPTA doesn't come up with a better contract offer than the bare- bones proposal one source says...
OmniTRAX disputes inaccurate affiliation with B.C. Rail investigation
(OmniTRAX issued the following news release on March 5.) DENVER -- OmniTRAX, Inc., disputed the characterization of its Company in the investigation regarding the privatization of B.C. Rail by the B.C. Provincial Government. "OmniTRAX was never involved in any illegal...
CSX projects on track
(The following story by Sue Stuart appeared on the Daily Southerner website on March 9.) TARBORO, N.C. -- Building a railroad today is a far cry from the methods of a century ago, but the end result looks about the same. Starting early this week, CSX Transportation...
NS signal shop hearing is postponed
(The following story appeared on the Roanoke Times website on March 9.) ROANOKE, Va. -- A federal hearing involving a dispute between Norfolk Southern Corp. and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen over the closing of a Roanoke signal shop was suspended Monday due to...
City Council may discuss BNSF lawsuit at private session
(The following story by James Quirk Jr. appeared on the Hawk Eye website on March 9.) BURLINGTON, Iowa -- The Burlington City Council plans to meet privately Monday, but officials aren't saying if the closed session is to discuss the lawsuit filed last week against...
