BLET News
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Daily Headlines
Teamsters Local 1224 to conduct informational picketing
WILMINGTON, Ohio -- The ABX Air, Inc. pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, will conduct informational picketing at their Wilmington hub, at the Airborne Operations Center in Miami, and at the Airborne, Inc. (NYSE: ABF - News) headquarters...
Unlawfully fired Overnite workers reinstated
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a decision issued by an Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Overnite Transportation Company, the trucking subsidiary of Union Pacific (UP), has been ordered to reinstate and pay lost wages plus interest to...
Thousands of UPS Teamsters learn about tentative agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thousands of Teamsters from across the United States are attending meetings at local unions to learn more about the proposed national contract, the IBT reported on its website. At Local 639 in Washington, D.C., more than 250 members attended an...
Austrailian government proposes multimillion dollar railroad overhaul
MELBOURNE, Australia -- According to a wire service, the federal government Wednesday proposed what it described as the biggest overhaul of Australia's rail network in 100 years -- a multimillion dollar upgrade to help cope with growing freight traffic. "If we can get...
IC&E Railroad completes purchase of I&M Rail Link from DM&E
BROOKINGS, S.D. -- The Iowa Chicago & Eastern Railroad finalized its purchase of the I&M Rail Link early Tuesday, a wire service reported. IC&E, a holding company of the Brookings, S.D.-based Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, does not plan to change the way IMRL...
Recent train accidents
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some recent passenger train accidents in the United States, as reported by the Associated Press: April 23, 2002: A freight train plows head-on into a Metrolink commuter train in Placentia, Calif., during the morning rush hour, killing two people...
Rail researchers seek heat remedies
WASHINGTON -- Researchers for decades have tried to figure out how to keep steel railroad tracks from warping in high temperatures, the so-called sun kink that may have caused this week's derailment that injured more than 100 people, according to a wire service....
CSX orders cut in speed on hot days
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- CSX Transportation, which owns the track where an Amtrak train derailed and plowed down an embankment Monday, is imposing new passenger train speed limits on hot days, as federal investigators question whether heat and recent maintenance combined...
Derailment adds to car problem; Amtrak cuts a run
KENSINGTON, Md. -- The New York Times reports that Amtrak dragged away the 11 cars damaged in Monday's derailment of the Capitol Limited yesterday afternoon, but with nearly 100 wrecked cars already awaiting repair and no spares on hand, the financially beleaguered...
Engineer noticed warped track
KENSINGTON, Md. -- The Baltimore Sun reports that the engineer operating an Amtrak train that derailed here Monday told investigators that he spotted a misshapen stretch of track 500 to 600 feet ahead of him seconds before the accident that injured 101 people, a top...
