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Employees offer wage cut to save B.C. Rail
(The CBC British Columbia distributed the following article on June 26.) VANCOUVER -- B.C. Rail employees are putting forward a collective agreement proposal they say will help save the beleagured railway. They're asking the government to consider zero wage increases...
Railroad promises review in derailment
(The Associated Press distributed the following article by Laura Wides on June 27.) COMMERCE, Calif. -- People whose homes were deluged in tons of flying debris when a freight train jumped the tracks cheered loudly at a meeting where City Council members challenged...
Hazard averted as train derails
(The following article by Mike Faher appeared in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat on June 27.) MARKLETON, Pa. -- A freight train carrying a hazardous chemical jumped the track early yesterday in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, sending firefighters shuffling to handle a...
Labour dispute jeopardizing rail safety: controllers
(The following article by Mike King was published in the Montreal Gazette on June 26. Brother Lamontagne is a member of BLE Division 950 in Quebec City.) MONTREAL -- Local commuter train service is being interrupted and public safety is at stake due to a national...
Striking CP Rail staff given boost
(The following article by Melissa Ridgen was posted on the Calgary Sun’s website on June 27. Brother Darren Hudspeth is a member of BLE Division 954 in Calgary.) CALGARY -- Striking Canadian Pacific Railway rail traffic controllers got a boost of support yesterday...
Teamsters join effort to organize Cintas
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on June 25.) WASHINGTON -- The Teamsters and the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees are trying to organize 17,000 workers at Cintas Corp., the nation's largest uniform rental company and...
Metra shuttles on track
(The following article by Guy Tridgell was posted on the Chicago Daily Southtown’s website on June 26.) CHICAGO -- On the first day of shuttling displaced Electric Line commuters to the Rock Island District Line, there wasn't much of a rush for the buses. That, Metra...
Amtrak plan in slow locomotion
(The following article by Katie Campbell was posted on the Vero Beach Press Journal’s website on June 26.) VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Amtrak's derailed proposal to expand passenger rail service to Florida's East Coast still is stopped dead on its tracks, transportation...
Mexico’s competition commission approves NAFTA Rail
(The Associated Press dsitributed the following article on June 25.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The proposed merger of Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. and Mexico's Grupo TMM,S.A., has overcome the first of three regulatory hurdles, Kansas City Southern announced...
Truckers, railroads call truce, will join to lobby Congress
(The Washington Post published the following article by Don Phillips on June 26.) WASHINGTON -- The trucking industry, reaching a mutual lobbying pact with the railroads, agreed yesterday not to seek federal permission to run longer and heavier trucks on the country's...
