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Fire at Penn Station delays Amtrak trains
NEW YORK -- The New York Daily News reports that a fire in a parked Amtrak train caused delays of up to two hours for hundreds of commuters at Penn Station last evening, fire and Amtrak officials said. The engine compartment in an empty Amtrak train that had arrived...
A Labor Day Quiz from Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD)
NORTH BERWICK, Maine -- A "Working Class History Test" comes just in time for Labor Day from Maine labor activist and scholar, Pete Kellman. Kellman compiled his labor quiz while researching "Building Unions: Past, Present and Future," a handbook he wrote for the...
Labor Day 2002 statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One month ago I spoke before a crowd of working men and women on Wall Street, standing across from the New York Stock Exchange, and called for corporations to be accountable to the American people. In the crowd, laid-off Enron and Worldcom workers...
Unions to honor working heroes for Labor Day
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Top AFL-CIO officers will travel across America this Labor Day weekend to kick off the labor movement's fall election campaign, call for corporate accountability, and honor America's every day working heroes. Under the banner of "No More Business...
British reopening the debate over privatization
LONDON -- Sizable losses by one of Britain's largest nuclear power companies have reopened debate here over the limits of privatization, according to the New York Times. The company, British Energy, is the latest example of the problems Britain has had with its...
Britain to close 40-mile stretch of railway track for four months for repairs
LONDON -- A wire service reports that a 40-mile (64 km) stretch of one of Britain's busiest rail lines will be closed for four months next year for repairs and upgrades, the government said Thursday. The poor state of the West Coast Main Line, which connects London...
Three engineers deny negligent homicide charges in German train crash
CELLE, Germany -- According to a wire service, three German railroad engineers denied charges of negligent homicide over the deaths of 101 people in the country's worst train disaster as their trial opened Wednesday, more than four years after the high-speed crash....
Canadian transit giant having summer of woe
TORONTO -- Robert E. Brown, the chief executive of Bombardier Inc., assumes that things are bound to go wrong occasionally in a company like his, which has delivered more than 100,000 railcars and 7,000 aircraft around the world, and bids on 225 new contracts each...
Construction of 12.8-mile rail line near Houston gets STB approval
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Surface Transportation Board (Board) Chairman Linda J. Morgan announced on August 28 that the Board has conditionally granted an exemption from regulation for the San Jacinto Rail Limited (San Jacinto), a subsidiary of The Burlington Northern and...
RailAmerica sees 2002 revenue of $460 million
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- RailAmerica Inc. expects third-quarter revenue of $114 million, but said results will be hurt by lower grain harvests in Australia, as well as weak Canadian bridge traffic, reports a wire service. In a press release Wednesday, the short-line and...
