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GOP moves to finish late spending bills
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are promising to quickly complete overdue spending bills while heeding President Bush's demand to hold the cost to $385 billion, reports the Associated Press. Democrats are preparing to fight, though, saying schools, Amtrak and domestic...
Bush Administration hides behind war on terrorism to deny rights to airport screeners
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in response to the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) decision to deny collective bargaining rights to newly federalized...
U.S. transportation leader acts to stop screeners’ union effort
WASHINGTON -- The leader of the Transportation Security Administration took action today to block an effort to unionize 56,000 federal screeners at airports, saying collective bargaining for them was "not compatible" with the fight against terrorism, according to the...
TSA’ s Loy determines collective bargaining conflicts with national security needs
WASHINGTON -- Adm. James Loy, under secretary of transportation for security, today signed an order precluding collective bargaining by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners after determining "mandatory collective bargaining is not compatible with the...
Controversial new trains make debut
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Remote-controlled freight trains, a controversial new technology already banned in some cities and blamed for several deaths, made their debut in Bakersfield Thursday amid warnings from local railroad engineers, reports the Bakersfield...
Health insurance costs fire up unions
(The following article by Julie Appleby was published in the January 9 issue of USA Today.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rapidly rising health care costs are causing strife at bargaining tables nationwide as employers seek to shift some of the burden to workers while unions...
Houston rail plan accused of using false data
(The following story by Lori Rodriguez was published in the January 8 issue of the Houston Chronicle.) HOUSTON -- An environmental group fighting a plan that would sharply increase train traffic in Houston's East End says the consortium seeking the new rail line...
Bombardier, Alstom win 170 Mln Euro contract
PARIS -- According to Reuters, Canada's Bombardier Transport said on Wednesday it had won a joint contract with France's Alstom worth 170 million euros ($176 million) to provide French railway operator SNCF with 25 trains. Bombardier said in a statement issued in...
Bombardier lands C$159 million Swiss railway order
(The following Reuters article was published today at http://www.morningstar.ca.) TORONTO -- Bombardier Inc. said on Thursday it had won a C$159 million order from Swiss Federal Railways. Bombardier said in a statement a consortium comprised of Bombardier...
Warning to snowmobilers: Stay off the tracks
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 8 issue of Newsday.) VICTOR, N.Y. -- Warning to snowmobilers: Riding the rails can get you fined, if not killed. Don Brown, vice president and general manager of Ontario Central Railroad, says that's...
