August 9, 2022 | COVID, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, TTD
(Source: People’s World, August 8, 2022) As the nation’s railroad worker unions presented their details for a new contract with the freight railroads to a Presidential Emergency Board, rank-and-file workers, upset with no contract since before the coronavirus...
August 8, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: The Real News Network, August 5, 2022) Last month, for The Real News, I reported on the egregious working conditions that rail workers on Class I freight railroads are facing, including punitive and inhumane attendance policies, chronic understaffing (after...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, STB
(Source: Bloomberg, August 3, 2022) U.S. freight railroads are in a bit of a predicament, and it’s not just because they are going down to the wire on labor contract negotiations with their 115,000 workers. Large railroads, including Union Pacific Corp. and Warren...
August 3, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, National Negotiations 2019, News, Regional Meetings
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, August 3 — More than 200 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and their families convened in Baltimore, Maryland, on the morning of August 2 for the opening ceremonies of the BLET’s second regional meeting of 2022. BLET...
August 1, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News
Brothers and Sisters of our unions: Presidential Emergency Board (“PEB” or “the Board”) 250 conducted hearings in Washington, D.C. this past week, concluding on July 28th. We both were honored to represent our unions and, by extension, the memberships of the dozen...
July 26, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Yahoo Finance, July 25, 2022) Rail workers across the country were set to walk off the job on July 18 before President Joe Biden intervened, the latest development in a contentious saga that has been brewing for years. Full story: Yahoo...
July 26, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Sourcing Journal, July 26, 2022) Members of the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) began hearing presentations on Sunday from carriers and labor unions as they look to bring an end to a roughly two-and-a-half-year contract dispute. Full story: Sourcing...
July 24, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, Top News
Today, July 24, 2022, the United Rail Unions, who are bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way/SMART Mechanical Coalition, and the Carriers represented by the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC)...
July 22, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, Unions
(Source: Farm Progress, July 20, 2022) The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Longshore Division announced on July 19 that it stands in solidarity with the Rail Unions and they workers they represent as they seek what they would consider a...
July 20, 2022 | Headlines, National Mediation Board, National Negotiations 2019
(Source National Mediation Board press release, July 18, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 15, 2022, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. established Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) No. 250, effective July 18, 2022, to investigate collective bargaining disputes between...
