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Statement by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka on Bush decision to begin Taft-Hartley injunction
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush Administration's decision to move toward issuing an unprecedented Taft-Hartley injunction in the West Coast port lockout by appointing a board of inquiry preempts the collective bargaining process and undermines the right of workers with...
U.S. port lockout hikes Mexico work
ENSENADA, Mexico -- This sleepy tourist resort has awakened with a jolt. Used to surviving mainly on fishermen and cruise ships, it is suddenly doing its best to serve cargo ships marooned off the western United States, according to the Associated Press. More than...
Bush moves toward halting port shutdown
NEW YORK -- President Bush took the first step yesterday toward seeking an injunction that would end the shutdown of 29 West Coast ports, acting just hours after negotiations between port operators and the longshoremen's union had broken off, the New York Times...
Embry-Riddle Professor Dr. Frank Richey named NTSB Academy President and Academic Dean
WASHINGTON, DC -- The National Transportation Safety Board has named Dr. Frank Richey to the new position of President and Academic Dean of the NTSB Academy. The Academy, which is currently under construction, is expected to open in late summer of 2003. Dr. Richey...
Train drivers in northern England strike for weekend
LONDON -- The Associated Press reports that train drivers in northern England walked off the job Saturday for the second in a series of weekend strikes over their continuing pay dispute. Train company First North Western said it would run more than 200 buses to...
Alaska town to keep train service
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Stand back, wave a white flag and climb aboard: The last regularly scheduled flag stop service in the United States has been spared, reported the Associated Press. The Alaska Railroad Corp.'s board — considering drastic cuts to its popular but...
Bombardier down, but not out
MONTREAL -- Alarm bells should have sounded way back in March, reported the Montreal Gazette. That's when Bombardier Inc. president Robert Brown said the company would no longer be making its five-year revenue-and-profit forecasts. For years, such forecasts painted a...
D.C. assesses self-propelled train
WASHINGTON -- The train idling on Track 11 at Union Station last week stood out among the Amtrak Metroliners, not because of its gleaming maroon-and-gold body or glass dome windows. According to the Washington Post, what set it apart was what it lacked: a locomotive....
VIA’s west-end station set to roll
OTTAWA -- The 8:56 a.m. train from Barrhaven to Toronto on Oct. 27 will mark the start of improved rail service and sharpen competition between trains and planes, the Ottawa Citizen reports. VIA Rail's new Fallowfield station, beside a cornfield on the edge of the...
Amtrak worries about money, survival
WASHINGTON -- As appropriation bills stall on Capitol Hill, the future of Amtrak and long-distance passenger service has become even less certain, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Three funding amounts have floated through Congress, ranging from the $1.2 billion the...
