May 18, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, Headlines, Hi-Viz, PSR, TTD
(Source: Montana Free Press, May 17, 2022) Montana’s largest railroad company is making changes to a controversial new employee attendance policy after receiving pushback from railroaders and unions. But even with the changes, labor officials remain unimpressed and...
May 18, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, Headlines, Hi-Viz, PSR, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, May 17, 2022) Two unions are still critical of BNSF’s controversial attendance policy, saying recent adjustments aren’t enough to overcome its shortcomings. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) criticized recent changes,...
April 13, 2022 | AFL-CIO, News, PSR, STB, TTD
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 13 — In an April 11 letter, the President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), called upon the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address deteriorating service quality provided by U.S. Class I railroads. Deterioration of...
April 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, April 5, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders from 30 transportation labor organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to outline a robust legislative and regulatory agenda for...
April 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, April 5, 2022) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO is urging federal agencies to rein in Class I railroads’ attendance policies, which TTD says force union employees to work long hours without adequate...
April 6, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, News, SMART-TD, TTD, Unions
CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 6) — The nation’s two largest railroad unions continue to gather allies and momentum as they oppose the imposition of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) tactics by Class I carriers that put safety and the health and lives of working people at...
March 24, 2022 | AFL-CIO, DOT, Headlines, TTD
(Source: AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department press release, March 23, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued this statement in response to the...
March 16, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Legislation, TTD
(Source: AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department press release, March 15, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — TTD and our 36 affiliated unions have long called for the historic investments that were finally delivered in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). We especially...
March 10, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, Headlines, SMART-TD, TTD
(Source: Associated Press, March 8, 2022) OMAHA, Neb. — The unions that represent roughly half of BNSF’s workers continue to fight against the railroad’s new attendance rules that they say penalizes them for missing work for any reason even though a judge...
March 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, DOT, News, PSR, SMART-TD, TTD
CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 7, 2022) — In conjunction with the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), the SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) urge all members to engage in a petition drive to...
