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 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...
October 20, 2024 | News, Railroad Safety, Top News, TTD
Project 2025 is a 920-page document that spells out what Republicans plan to do if they were to gain the presidency in the 2024 election. While candidate Trump has denied knowledge of the document, it was written by at least 140 Trump advisers and former (and likely...
April 1, 2024 | Headlines, STB, TTD
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 1, 2024) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman last week appointed 21 members to the board’s newly formed Passenger-Rail Advisory Committee (PRAC). The committee will advise the STB on issues related to the...
March 4, 2024 | BNSF, Furloughs, Headlines, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, March 1, 2024) BNSF Railway, one of the largest freight railroads in the U.S., has reportedly furloughed hundreds of employees in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and Texas. The furloughs were announced Tuesday, with 362 workers reportedly losing...
March 1, 2024 | BNSF, Furloughs, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, March 1, 2024) Shop Craft Unions at the BNSF Railway are urgently calling upon the FRA to initiate unannounced focus inspections on all locomotives and rail cars owned and leased by BNSF...
February 2, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety, TTD
(Source: Trains.com, February 1, 2024) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the leaders of all 13 railroad labor unions today urged Congress to tighten rail safety regulations as the one-year anniversary of the disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio,...
January 24, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Railroad Safety, TTD
(Source: America’s Workforce Union Podcast, January 22, 2024) President of the Transportation Trades Department, Greg Regan, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to talk about the first anniversary of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and what...
December 1, 2023 | National Mediation Board, News, TTD
In a November 21 letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, urged the Senate to “expeditiously” schedule a floor vote on the reappointment of National Mediation Board (NMB) Members Linda Puchala and Deirdre...
November 22, 2023 | News, TTD
TTD Fall Executive Committee meeting: From left: Political Analyst David Wasserman, TTD President Greg Regan and TTD Secretary-Treasurer Shari Semelsberger ____________________ The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) held its Fall Executive Committee...
