February 9, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, February 8, 2023) EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Evacuated residents can safely return to the Ohio village where crews burned toxic chemicals after a train derailed five days ago near the Pennsylvania state line, East Palestine Fire Chief Keith...
February 9, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Freight Waves, February 8, 2023) Norfolk Southern’s lanes linking the Northeast with markets in the Midwest may continue to face disruptions as the railroad seeks to fully restore network fluidity following a train derailment that occurred Friday evening in...
February 9, 2023 | CP, News, Tentative Contract
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 9 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative contract agreement with the CP Rail/SOO Line Railroad. Ballots were mailed today, February 9, to all active members of the BLET employed by the SOO...
February 8, 2023 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, TTD
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 6, 2023) Twelve rail labor unions of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, have adopted a resolution that calls for the nation’s freight railroads to give all railroad workers paid sick leave. The resolution...
February 8, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, Unions
(Source: Associated Press, February 8, 2023) Several thousand workers at CSX will soon get one of the things that pushed the U.S. railroad industry to the brink of a strike last fall: paid sick time. CSX announced a deal Tuesday with two of its 12 unions, becoming the...
