April 13, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: National Public Radio, April 10, 2023) A ProPublica report on a railroad cost-cutting approach called Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) concludes that a strategy that employs longer trains with fewer employees puts profits ahead of safety in the freight...
April 13, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Railroad Safety, Technology
(Source: Ideastream Public Media, April 13, 2023) The February train derailment in East Palestine has raised questions about the safety of freight rail companies. Now, the U.S. Congress is considering two pieces of legislation that would address the use of wayside...
April 11, 2023 | Contract Negotiations, News, Short Line
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 11 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative contract agreement with the South Buffalo Railway Company (SBRR). The BLET SBRR members are asked to check their mailboxes for ballots, which the...
April 11, 2023 | Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: Editorial in the Seattle Times, April 9, 2023) State and federal governments recently have focused on ways to make the nation’s railways safer after a series of derailments, from East Palestine, Ohio, to Swinomish, left communities concerned about their own...
April 11, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, Whistleblower
(Source: Vice, April 10, 2023) Since 2013, there have been 2,054 whistleblower complaints filed with OSHA by freight rail workers against the seven biggest railroads in the country, known as Class I railroads, according to documents obtained by Motherboard via a...
