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Amtrak CEO says walkout is unlikely
(States News Service circulated the following on October 1.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak's president and chief executive, David L. Gunn, expressed confidence yesterday that trains will roll on Friday, despite a threatened one-day work stoppage by unions to protest what they...
BNSF train derails in Norman, Okla.
(The Norman Transcript posted the following article by Brian Sargent to its website on October 1.) NORMAN, Okla. -- A southbound freight train carrying 108 railcars of grain derailed shortly after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday immediately north of Rock Creek Road. Thirty-two...
AFL-CIO Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on September 29.) New members reported in this week's WIP: 1,470 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 114,783 PRATICING UNION MEDICINE--Some 640 Texas health care workers gained a voice on the job with AFGE this month. The...
‘Freedom Ride’
(The Buffalo News published the following story by Fred O. Williams on its website on September 30.) BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Maria Rojas worked in a lawn equipment factory in Chicago for six years before she was fired in May, when it was discovered that she had used a false...
Task force targets rail crossings
(The following article by Linda Martz was posted on the Mansfield News Journal website on September 30.) MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Railroad companies may be pressured by the Richland County Task Force to solve safety problems at some crossings. When the recently formed task...
Region to benefit from Atlanta’s freight rail hub
(The Florida Times-Union posted the following story by Walter C. Jones on its website on September 30.) ATLANTA -- The sound of trains was unusually absent one morning last this week along two tracks that normally carry many of the 2 million rail cars passing through...
Railways defend property sales methods
(The Associated Press distributed the following article by Dale Wetzel on September 30.) BISMARCK, N.D. -- Facing questions about their property management, spokesmen for North Dakota's two largest railroads said Monday they are reluctant to sell their property when...
CSX to hold third quarter earnings meeting
(CSX Corp. issued the following news release on September 29.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Corporation will hold its third-quarter 2003 earnings meeting for analysts on Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11 a.m. EDT. The meeting will be held in the JP MorganChase building at...
Order to evacuate after spill irritates residents
(The State published the following story by Clif LeBlanc on its website on September 30.) HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- Deloris Robertson, 61, was fed up at being kept away from her home for hours because of a chemical leak she felt no longer was dangerous. With her two...
Bush appointees to Amtrak board foreshadow breakup and privatization
(The World Socialist Web Site posted the following story on its website on September 30.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President George Bush?s proposed nomination of three new members to Amtrak?s board of directors foreshadows the administration?s support for breaking up the...
