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Teamsters stand in unity with Longshoremen
WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa: The Teamsters Union stands shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters in the West Coast Longshore Union (ILWU) who have been locked out. The employer lockout is the labor...
Dockworkers make their case
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Until three days ago longshoreman Michael Ponce worked night shifts for 50 hours a week -- and about $50,000 a year -- operating forklifts or cranes to load and unload cargo from ships docking at one of the nation's busiest ports, the Chicago...
Longshoremen set for mediation
SAN FRANCISCO -- Union longshoremen geared up for a federal mediation session with West Coast port employers on Thursday in an effort to kick-start stalled contract talks that have led to a management lockout of docks stretching from San Diego to Seattle, Reuters...
Court approves takeover of failed U.K. rail infrastructure firm
LONDON -- Britain's High Court on Tuesday gave approval for the collapsed rail-infrastructure company Railtrack PLC to be taken over by a new, not-for-profit firm, the Associated Press reports. A judge ordered the lifting of a year-old order placing the company under...
Transportation unions won’t back another airline bailout
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Meeting today in Washington, the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO's Transportation Trades Department (TTD) united behind an unequivocal declaration that transportation unions cannot support legislation to reimburse the airlines for their...
Mother of NY rail-crash victim irate; Probe begins
NEW YORK -- The grief-stricken mother of the train operator killed in the AirTrain crash at Kennedy Airport said yesterday her son's employer has not offered condolences to the family, the New York Daily News reported. Kelvin DeBourgh, 23, of Springfield Gardens,...
Poorly ‘trained’
NEW YORK -- The fatal accident on the new JFK AirTrain was the latest in a series of setbacks for Bombardier, the beleaguered Canadian company whose subway and Amtrak trains have also stalled at the station, the New York Daily News reported. This summer, the company...
Critics want to ride train to Charlotte airport
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Atlanta gets rave reviews for moving passengers to the airport by train. So do St. Louis and Portland, the Charlotte Observer reported. But as it stands now, riders of Charlotte's rapid-transit system won't take trains to their planes. Instead, the...
Opinion: Riding the rails, rapidly
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Sooner or later, this big, fat, happy country of ours will have to recognize that it can’t rely forever on gasoline-powered cars and buses to travel from one place to another, according to an editorial published in the Toledo Blade. The long-term...
Rail tragedy averted
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- An Amtrak engineer averted tragedy Saturday when he spotted a stranded minivan on the tracks near San Onofre and slowed his train enough to avoid injuries to the 170 passengers aboard, according to the Orange County Register. The San...
