February 10, 2025 | AFL-CIO, C3RS, East Palestine-NS, News, Top News, TTD
In March 2023, leaders of America’s largest railroads promised to voluntarily adopt the Confidential Close Call Reporting System in the weeks after the tragedy in East Palestine. C3RS is a safety program that allows railroad workers to confidentially report near-miss...
February 7, 2025 | East Palestine-NS, News, Railroad Safety, Teamsters, Top News
Vice President J.D. Vance said the Trump administration supports the Railway Safety Act during his visit to East Palestine on February 3. Photo: Associated Press ____________________ On Monday, February 3, Vice President J.D. Vance traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, to...
February 6, 2025 | C3RS, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, TTD
(Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, February 4, 2025) On February 3, rail union leaders gathered for a virtual media briefing to call for safety reforms across the freight rail industry on the two-year anniversary of the toxic...
February 6, 2025 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety
(Source: Trains.com, February 6, 2025) U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) has reintroduced two bills stemming from the East Palestine derailment of 2023 — one broadening the definition of a “high-hazard flammable train” and setting reporting requirements for railroads...
February 3, 2025 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, News, Railroad Safety, Teamsters, Top News
Monday, Feb. 3 marks two years since the toxic train wreck and fire caused by the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. Shortly after the wreck and a visit by then-candidate Donald Trump to the crash site, then-Senator J.D. Vance...
February 3, 2025 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: National Public Radio, February 3, 2025) Two years after a Norfolk Southern train derailment spewed a toxic cloud that drove thousands from their homes, freight trains with the same chemicals central to that disaster roll through town — with few steps taken...
January 22, 2025 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, Organizing, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
(Source: Bloomberg, January 16, 2025) The Federal Railroad Administration is eyeing a test of a self-driving train car on Georgia railroads, which has sparked similar outrage from union leaders who are still reeling from the East Palestine train derailment, where...
October 23, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, October 22, 2024) Norfolk Southern Corporation announced Tuesday its third quarter 2024 financial results. For the quarter, income from railway operations was $1.6 billion, the operating ratio was 47.7%, and diluted earnings...
September 23, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, News, Top News
From left: BLET National Secretary-Treasurer David Estes, Senator Sherrod Brown and BLET National President Eddie Hall ____________________ Cleveland, Ohio – On September 23, 2024, the American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA), Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers...
September 12, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: CNN, September 12, 2024) Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw was fired for cause by the railroad’s board for “engaging in a consensual relationship with the company’s chief legal officer,” who was also terminated, the railroad announced Wednesday evening. While...
