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Midwest floods disrupt livestock feed supplies for California farms
(Source: Fresno Bee, March 19, 2019) FRESNO, Calif. — Some farms, dairies and feed companies in the San Joaquin Valley are facing shortages of livestock feed supplies after deadly river flooding in the Midwest closed major railroad shipping corridors in recent days....
NJ Transit may face another difficult summer with ongoing engineer shortage
(Source: Television station Pix 11, March 20, 2019) NEW YORK — Threats of a critical engineering shortage are preventing the New Jersey Transit to get back on track. Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) and state officials acknowledged the shortage on Tuesday while pushing for an...
Hoffa marks 20 years of building Teamster power
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, March 19, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — March 19, 2019, marked an important milestone in Teamster history. On this date, General President James P. Hoffa became only the second General President to log 20 years...
Firefighters/EMTs in Illinois join Teamsters Local 525
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, March 18, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of 10 firefighters/Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in Illinois have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 525. The election was held by mail ballot and...
Editorial: New York and New Jersey need a Plan B for the Hudson rail tunnel
(Source: Editorial in the New York Post, March 18, 2019) NEW YORK — With Team Trump blocking funds for a new cross-Hudson train tunnel, it’s time for New York and New Jersey officials to draw up a Plan B. Full story: New York Post
Union Pacific: Weak rail traffic for sixth straight week
(Source: Market Realist, March 18, 2019) NEW YORK — The weakness in Union Pacific’s rail traffic continued for the sixth straight week. The company recorded an 8.2% year-over-year decline in its rail traffic in week 10 to 155,845 railcars from 169,846 railcars carried...
Teamsters Local 455 mechanics ratify contract with Frontier Airlines
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, March 15, 2019) DENVER — Frontier Airlines mechanics have voted to ratify their most recent contract with the Teamsters by a margin of 96 percent. The agreement will be in effect until March 2023. “We are...
Memorial service held for 20th anniversary of Amtrak tragedy in Bourbonnais, Ill.
(Source: Kankakee Daily Journal, March 18, 2019) KANKAKEE, Ill. — Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, a train of two locomotives, one baggage car, 11 passenger cars and two sleeper cars, was carrying 198 passengers, an Amtrak crew of 17, two off-duty Amtrak employees and...
AFL-CIO’s TTD seeks worker protections against automation impacts
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 18, 2019) The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO is asking Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to prepare for the impact that automation is likely to have on the public transportation...
FRA denies KCS request to move brake test to Mexico yards
(Source: Trains, March 18, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration has denied Kansas City Southern’s request to shift a brake test from the International Railway Bridge in Laredo, Texas, to one of its yards in neighboring Nuevo Laredo, Mexico....
