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AFL-CIO General Board will vote on permanent political fund, kicks off 2002 campaigns
WASHINGTON -- The General Board of the AFL-CIO (on which all union presidents sit) will gather in New York on May 22 to consider a proposal by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney to permanently fund union member education, voter registration, and mobilization around...
Railtrack chief was concerned over track repair
LONDON -- Britain's rail chief was worried about casual, unqualified laborers being hired to repair tracks and railway points less than 48 hours before Friday's fatal Potter's Bar crash, a wire service reported. Initial inquiries into the disaster, which killed seven...
British Railtrack denies warning
LONDON -- A wire service reported that the company responsible for Britain's railway infrastructure denied that it had been warned about the faulty track switching mechanism that caused a derailment, which killed seven people. But rail maintenance contractor Jarvis...
Two injured in Amtrak crash in South Carolina
COOSAWHATCHIE, S.C. -- An Amtrak train struck a log truck at a crossing Tuesday morning, and 10 cars were derailed and at least two people seriously injured, a wire service reported. Jasper County Deputy County Administrator Ronnie Malphrus said there were no...
Engineer shot on NS train in Ohio
(BLE Editor's Note: L.E. Jameson is a member of BLE Division 4 in Toledo, Ohio.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- One of several shots that were fired in the vicinity of a Norfolk Southern freight train on May 11 ended up penetrating the left shoulder of a locomotive engineer -- not...
Amtrak on brink of service cuts
WASHINGTON -- According to a wire service, a budget squeeze and last month's train derailment in Florida have left Amtrak with no room for error, the railroad's acting president said Monday. "I'm one derailment away from having to cut service," warned Stan Bagley. He...
CB&CNS wants government money
HALIFAX -- The company planning to cut rail freight service in Cape Breton says the Nova Scotia government should invest in railways, a wire service reported. The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway says it approached the province for financial aid in 1999....
Court upholds $2.7 million judgment in rail fatality
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. has lost an appeal of a $2.7 million judgment in a wrongful death case involving its alleged failure to clean vegetation at a Forrest County crossing, a wire service reported. The Mississippi Supreme Court, in...
Government says rail switching points likely cause of fatal crash
LONDON -- The government Monday confirmed that failure of a railway switching mechanism appeared to have been the cause of the Potters Bar train derailment, which killed seven people and injured 70, reports a wire service. "Early indications are that a set of points...
Mexican antitrust body could block railroad merger
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's antitrust body could block a major railroad merger between copper miner Grupo Mexico and industrial conglomerate Grupo Carso, a source at the government's Federal Competition Commission told a wire service. "The proposed fusion is not very fair...
