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UP faces second gender bias suit over prescription drug coverage
(The following story by Stacie Hamel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on January 21.) OMAHA, Neb. -- A second class-action lawsuit has been filed against Union Pacific Railroad seeking to require the Omaha-based company to provide prescription drug coverage...
Canadian group urges inquiry into rail safety
(The Toronto Star posted the following article by Kevin McGran on its website on January 23.) TORONTO -- A group of railway industry professionals is calling for Ottawa to conduct an inquiry on rail safety after last week's train derailment, which killed two women in...
Texas Eagle, state projects win big in Senate’s spending bill
(The following story by Maria Recio appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on January 23.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Texas was a winner in the $820 billion spending bill passed by the Senate on Thursday, with money for highways and myriad projects in Tarrant...
Gratton’s guitar speaks softly
(The following article by Scott Morgan was posted on the Bordentown Register News on January 22. Dick Gratton is a retired member of BLET Division 11 in New York. His last run was features in the Spring 2003 issue of the Locomotive Engineers Journal.) BORDENTOWN, N.J....
New union finance rules delayed until July
(The following article appeared on the Washington Post website on January 23.) WASHINGTON -- The Labor Department must wait until July -- six months later than it planned -- to impose new rules that require unions to provide more extensive reporting on their finances,...
Tentative deal reached in CN Rail contract negotiations
(The Canadian Press distributed the following article on January 23.) MONTREAL -- CN Rail announced early Friday that it had reached tenative agreements with three locals of the Canadian Auto Workers (news - web sites) union, averting a countrywide strike by 5,000...
CN reaches tentative collective agreements with CAW
(CN issued the following news release on January 23.) MONTREAL -- CN announced today it has successfully negotiated three tentative collective agreements with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. Details of the new three-year labour contracts, replacing ones that...
Traffic snarls blamed on Mexico-bound trains
(The following article by Aaron Claverie was posted on the Imperial Valley Press website on January 22.) CALEXICO, Calif. -- Union Pacific Railroad trains headed into Mexico are blocking up to three intersections at a time, snarling traffic and trapping motorists on...
Freight train derails northwest of Toronto; 23 cars jump tracks
(The Canadian Press circulated the following article on January 22.) TORONTO -- Twenty-six cars of a 43-car freight train derailed Thursday morning in the Caledon area northwest of Toronto. Ontario Provincial Police said there were no injuries in the derailment, which...
Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on State of the Union Address
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on January 21.) The President must be experiencing a different America than the one in which most working families live. In his State of the Union address last night, he offered no solutions to the urgent, immediate job crisis that...
