October 27, 2021 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters updates the news section of its website each day with the latest regarding the Teamsters, domestic and global labor and trade issues, state and living wage battles, social justice, the War on Workers, and many other important...
October 27, 2021 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 21, 2021) CHICAGO — Persons claiming retirement, disability, survivor, unemployment or sickness benefits from the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) have the right to appeal unfavorable determinations on their...
October 26, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News, Unions
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25 — An arbitrator has rejected the railroad industry’s attempt to utilize a never-before-used contract clause imposed by Congress 30 years ago to reduce the healthcare networks available to over 250,000 railroad workers and family members on...
October 26, 2021 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, October 22, 2021) CHICAGO — Norfolk Southern Railway Co has filed a lawsuit seeking to block its employees’ unions from suing over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and to prevent its workers from striking or picketing in protest of the requirement....
October 26, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, UP
(Source: Cook County Record, October 26, 2021) CHICAGO — Metra wants to derail a judge’s ruling that Union Pacific does not have to run Metra’s commuter lines in northwest Chicago, arguing the judge committed a “manifest injustice” in refusing...
