September 10, 2024 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, September 9, 2024) Norfolk Southern’s CEO Alan Shaw is expected to step down from his role at the railroad company amid an investigation into allegations of potential workplace misconduct, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on...
September 6, 2024 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Amtrak press release, September 5, 2024) OLD LYME, Conn. – Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner today joined U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy,...
September 5, 2024 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, August 30, 2024) The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (Teamsters) filed appeals challenging the decisions that led to binding arbitration being imposed on workers at CN and CPKC, effectively stripping them of...
September 5, 2024 | Headlines, Organizing, Short Line, Unions
(Source: American Train Dispatchers Association press release, September 4, 2024) On September 4, 2024, the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that Train Dispatchers from the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad (G&W) have voted to unionize with the American Train...
August 29, 2024 | 2-man Crews, CSX, Fatality, Headlines, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
(Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2024) The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews. But that idea won’t be...
