March 18, 2022 | Amtrak, Headlines, UP, War on Workers
(Source: Courthouse News Service, March 17, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Ninth Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday in an appeal with major implications for labor law in the United States and the sick pay of railroad workers in California. A consortium of railroad...
March 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, March 17, 2022) NEW YORK — The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on March 16 asked merger partners Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) to address an apparent “inconsistency in the calculation of traffic density numbers” that...
March 18, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 17, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chicago-area commuter rail operator Metra has come out against the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger, telling the Surface Transportation board in a 946-page filing that the merger would bring...
March 18, 2022 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: The Center Square, March 17, 2022) MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A bill calling for a study on train transportation across Tennessee passed unanimously Thursday in the state Senate. The study, to be completed by the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental...
March 17, 2022 | News, Teamsters
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 17 — BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce was reelected by acclamation to his fourth term as President of the Teamsters Rail Conference at the Rail Conference’s Fifth Quadrennial Convention in Chicago on March 17, 2022. BLET National Vice...
